A review of Evan Smith, British Communism and the Politics of Race (Haymarket, 2018), £24.99 Evan Smith’s book deals with the Communist Party of Great Britain and anti-racism from 1945 to the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. Aiming for… Continue Reading
A review of Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Verso, 2018), £16.99 Many on the radical left in Britain and the United States remained silent on the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Even among famous… Continue Reading
A review of David Morgan (ed), The Labour Party in Historical Perspective (Socialist History Society, 2018), £6 This collection of essays ranges over a vast field of Labour Party history. This is both a strength and a weakness. Though it… Continue Reading
A review of Nur Masalha, Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Zed Books, 2018), £20 The construction of a people as illegitimate is gathering pace: the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism (which includes “claiming that the existence of… Continue Reading
A review of Mike Gonzalez, The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America (Pluto Press, 2018), £19.99 In January this year, the Venezuelan right launched an attempted coup against the government of Nicolás Maduro,… Continue Reading
A review of Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party (Verso, 2016), £16.99 In 2011 huge Occupy movements, inspired by the Arab Spring, appeared around the world. Jodi Dean was involved in the New York events and she makes these the starting… Continue Reading
A review of David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Profile Books, 2017), £14.99 In Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey uses his extensive knowledge of Karl Marx’s writings to review the sad… Continue Reading
A review of Kim Moody, On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket, 2017), £15.99 The centrality of the working class to capitalism through the production of surplus value and consequently its power ultimately to… Continue Reading
A review of Massimo De Angelis, Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (Zed, 2017), £16.99 Omnia Sunt Communia forms part of a series envisioning a non-dystopian end to capitalism. Recent years have seen a number… Continue Reading
A review of John Kelly, Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain (Routledge, 2018), £29.99 Leon Trotsky, the organiser of the October 1917 insurrection and founder of the Red Army, cannot be dismissed by anyone lightly. However, amid… Continue Reading