A review of Dave Sherry, Russia 1917: Workers’ Revolution and the Festival of the Oppressed (Bookmarks, 2017), £12.99. At a time when it looks as if capitalism can’t—and shouldn’t—survive through the 21st century, it’s timely to remind a new generation… Continue Reading
A review of Joseph Choonara, A Reader’s Guide to Marx’s Capital (Bookmarks, 2017), £9.99, Fred Moseley, Money and Totality: A Macro-monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the end of the Transformation Problem (Haymarket, 2016), £24.99 and Ingo Schmidt… Continue Reading
A review of Aaron Edwards, UVF: Behind the Mask (Merrion Press, 2017), £14.99 UVF: Behind the Mask is a vast if somewhat episodic account of the killings, feuds and internal factionalism of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force written by… Continue Reading
A review of Dave Randall, Sound System: The Political Power of Music, Pluto Press/Left Book Club (2017), £12.99 The inter-relationship of music and politics, and their immersion into each other’s spaces, has been a source of inspiration for many great… Continue Reading
A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016), £25 There is a moment in the play Not Such A Tory Land, by Exeter’s Riversmeet Productions, when John Milton gives the audience a… Continue Reading
A review of Tariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Verso (2017), £16.99 Can we rescue Lenin for the 21st century? In this the year of the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution we have to… Continue Reading
A review of S A Smith, Russia in Revolution : An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford University Press, 2017), £25, Neil Faulkner, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution (Pluto Press/Left Book Club, 2017), £12.99 and Mark D… Continue Reading
A review of Joshua Clover, Riot. Strike. Riot: The new era of uprisings Verso (2016), £20 Joshua Clover identifies a cycle of struggle occurring over the centuries which he categorises respectively as riot, strike and “riot prime”. Riots first occurred… Continue Reading
A review of Ben Fine, Microeconomics: A Critical Companion Pluto Press (2016), £17.50 and Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou Macroeconomics: A Critical Companion Pluto Press (2016), £17.50 Writing in the mid-19th century, British historian Thomas Carlyle described economics as the… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Roberts, The Long Depression, Haymarket (2016), £14.99 Can the man who predicted the start of the economic crisis say how it will end? That’s the bold ambition of Michael Roberts’s book The Long Depression. It combines… Continue Reading