A review of Gregor Gall, Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography (Manchester University Press, 2017), £20. In a period of retreat and demoralisation for the trade union movement, Bob Crow and the RMT union he led have been… Continue Reading
A review of Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins, The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts (Manchester University Press, 2017), £9.99. Opening a new building at the London School of Economics in November 2008, the Queen… Continue Reading
A review of Matt Clement, A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), £65. Dr Martin Luther King once described riots as “the language of the unheard”. The great civil rights… Continue Reading
A review of Dan Plesch, Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes (Georgetown University Press, 2017), £23. The international tribunal in Nuremberg brought some of the leading Nazis responsible for the Holocaust before military courts.… Continue Reading
A review of Bernard Goldstein, Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland (Purdue University Press, 2016), £55.50. On 26 September 1936, Polish fascists attacked the offices of the Jewish Labour Bund in Warsaw. The building… Continue Reading
A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: “Working the Ground” in Scotland (Manchester University Press, 2017), £75. In the 21st century, 27 million people around the world catch fish for a living which is worth… Continue Reading
A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both and Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both… Continue Reading
A review of William Clare Roberts, Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (Princeton University Press, 2017), £27.95. Marx’s Inferno by William Clare Roberts seems unsure what kind of book it is supposed to be. On the one hand, it… Continue Reading
A review of Raj Patel and Jason W Moore, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (University of California Press, 2017), £19.95. Every airport bookstore features books… Continue Reading
A review of China Miéville, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Verso, 2017), £18.99. There is a long-held narrative among liberal and not-so-liberal commentators that contrasts a justified libertarian revolution in Russia in February 1917 with an authoritarian Bolshevik… Continue Reading