A review of From Value to Uneven Development: Selected writings by John Weeks in the Marxist tradition edited by Ben Fine, Simon Mohun, Alfredo Saad-Filho (Monthly Review Press, 2024), £110 This book brings together a selection of the theoretical writings… Continue Reading
A review of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (John Murray Press, 2023) Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian journalist and liberal Zionist who accused Corbyn of antisemitism. Currently, he… Continue Reading
A review of A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid (John Murray Press, 2024), £12.99 From 1918 to 1920, a total of 180,000 allied troops conducted an undeclared war to overthrow the… Continue Reading
A review of The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World by Kehinde Andrews (Allen Lane, 2023), £10.99 What is Anti-racism? And Why it Means Anti-capitalism by Arun Kundnani (Verso, 2023), £16.99 The Black Lives Matter Movement… Continue Reading
A review of China: Rise, Repression and Resistance by Adrian Budd (Bookmarks, 2024), £10 What is the history, politics and nature of the Chinese regime? Adrian Budd’s book, China: Rise, Repression and Resistance provides an excellent and in-depth answer. Regularly,… Continue Reading
A review of The Zone of Interest (2023, Jonathan Glazer) Steven Spielberg said that Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, based on Martin Amis’s book of the same name, was the best film about the Holocaust since his own… Continue Reading
A review of Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman (Pluto Press, 2023), £14.99 Over recent years, neurodiversity has become a major social phenomenon in the societies of the Global North.1 A rapid growth in the number of those seeking or… Continue Reading
A review of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024), £14.99 Some years ago, I was at a Celtic Connections folk concert in Glasgow. Following what seemed like an endless succession of dreary songs lamenting… Continue Reading
A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics, Margaret Renn (Verso Books, 2024), £30.00 It always seems that an anniversary with a zero at the end is a good time for a biography. It is therefore appropriate that the… Continue Reading
A review of No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change by Matt Clement (ed) (Zero, 2023), £22.99 It is estimated that more than 600 people are killed by law enforcement each year in the United States.… Continue Reading