SS Prawer, Karl Marx and World Literature (Verso, 2011), £16.99 In a letter to his daughter Laura dated 11 April 1868, Marx wrote, “You’ll certainly fancy, my dear child, that I am very fond of books, because I trouble you… Continue Reading
Sasha Lilley (ed), Capital and its Discontents (PM Press, 2011), £14.99 This book is a collection of interviews with left wing intellectuals conducted by its editor Sasha Lilley. One of its strengths is that Lilley is constantly concerned with what… Continue Reading
David Campbell and Mark Durden, Variable Capital (Liverpool University Press, 2008), £28.50 The starting point for Variable Capital was an exhibition of the same name held at the Liverpool Bluecoat gallery in 2008. The book is not a catalogue though.… Continue Reading
David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Verso, 2012), £12.99 David Harvey has established himself as one of the most significant and influential thinkers in contemporary Marxist thought. Recordings of his reading groups… Continue Reading
A review of John Riddell (ed), Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922 (Brill, 2012), €199.00 Why, 90 years on, study the detailed proceedings of the Communist International (often known as the Comintern)?1… Continue Reading
A review of Gillian Tett, Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted A Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Abacus, 2009), £8.99; Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics (Penguin, 2008), £9.99; and Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: Free Markets and… Continue Reading
David McNally writes in response to my review of his Global Slump that we need “serious, committed debate designed to strengthen the theoretical and practical capacities of the left”.1 I agree. It is therefore unfortunate that he describes my review… Continue Reading
I am very conscious of the great honour of being invited to participate in this seminar as someone who did not belong to the same international current as Daniel Bensaïd and only got to know him in the last decade… Continue Reading
Twenty-five years ago Bookmarks published a collection of essays under the title Revolutionary Rehearsals. The book has since been republished by Haymarket Press of Chicago. In its pages Ian Birchall wrote about France in May 1968, Mike Gonzalez about the… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: Nigel Harris, who succeeded Michael Kidron as editor of International Socialism during the 1960s, made a welcome return to our pages in issue 132. Then he was reviewing Ian Birchall’s biography of Tony Cliff. Here he seeks to… Continue Reading