A review of Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill, Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), £55 This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin, examining how the 1926 General… Continue Reading
A review of Sharon Smith, Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital (Haymarket, 2015), £11.99 Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide… Continue Reading
A review of Alex Callinicos, Deciphering Capital: Marx’s Capital and its Destiny (Bookmarks, 2014), £14.99 Deciphering Capital by Alex Callinicos is the impressive balance sheet of some 30 years of research. Its starting point is a thesis completed at Oxford… Continue Reading
A review of Thomas M Twiss, Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy (Brill/Haymarket, 2015), £25.99 The theory of bureaucratic state capitalism in Russia and elsewhere characterises the International Socialist Tendency and distinguishes us from most other Marxist parties worldwide.… Continue Reading
A review of Donny Gluckstein (ed), Fighting on all Fronts: Popular Resistance and the Second World War (Bookmarks, 2015), £13.99 As Donny Gluckstein points out in the introduction to this book, understanding the nature of the Second World War is… Continue Reading
A review of Roddy Slorach, A Very Capitalist Condition: A History and Politics of Disability (Bookmarks, 2015), £12.99 The number of disabled people has grown from around 10 percent of the world population in the 1970s to 15 percent, 1… Continue Reading
A review of Abdel Bari Atwan, Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate (Saqi, 2015), £9.99 Rosa Luxemburg said that capitalism would end in either socialism or barbarism. Looking at the Middle East, as hopes of democracy and social justice have been… Continue Reading
A review of Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (Zed Books, 2015), £14.99 Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong provides a critical review of the recent economic history of Africa. Morton Jerven argues that, for most of the… Continue Reading
A review of Christian Høgsbjerg, C L R James in Imperial Britain (Duke University Press, 2014), £16.99 In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black… Continue Reading
A review of Alistair Couper, Hance D Smith and Bruno Ciceri, Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea (Pluto Press, 2015), £19.99 and Stefano B Longo, Rebecca Clausen and Brett Clark, The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries… Continue Reading