The latest issue of New Left Review (II/65, September/October 2010) starts with a superb article by Robert Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir on the crisis in Iceland. In a piece that combines careful analysis with the pace and tension of a… Continue Reading
The latest issue of New Left Review (II, 64) has some interesting pieces. In a careful analysis, Peter Nolan and Jin Zhang show what a high mountain China must climb, even though it has overtaken Japan as the second largest… Continue Reading
The latest issue of Historical Materialism (18.1) has a symposium devoted to the late Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing. Two of the contributions stand out. The American Marxist geographer Dick Walker in a lively, wide-ranging piece takes on both… Continue Reading
New Left Review produced a massive bumper January issue to mark its 50th anniversary. It includes several interesting pieces, for example, Mike Davis’s “Who Will Build the Ark?”1 This confronts the future of the planet with a characteristic mixture of… Continue Reading
There were several good articles in the November/December issue of New Left Review.1 Ho-fung Hung’s piece, “America’s Head Servant?”, contests glib claims that China will emerge out of the economic crisis as a serious challenger to US hegemony. The article… Continue Reading
Many on the left viewed last year’s food crisis and price rises as a blip, a delayed by-product of the debt-induced boom of the mid-2000s aggravated by speculation. According to this argument, concerns over the ability of capitalism to feed… Continue Reading
The most interesting easily accessible article this quarter is “From Çayönü to Çatalhöyük” on the English version of the website Urkommunismus (“Early Communism”).1 It is an analytical account by Bernhard Brosius of the results of archaeological excavations of one of… Continue Reading
The best thing to appear in recent issues of New Left Review is the article “Obama At Manassas”, which was in issue 56 (March-April). In it Mike Davis gives an analysis of the outcome of the US presidential election. This… Continue Reading
Our previous issue recommended a major three-part study of what’s happening in Bolivia by Jeffery R Webber in Historical Materialism. The second part is now out and fulfils the promise of the first. For readers who do not have access… Continue Reading
This has been a bumper quarter for Marxist analysis that complements articles which have recently appeared in this journal. The July-August Monthly Review was a special issue on capitalism’s ecological crises. John W Farley spells out in detail the scientific… Continue Reading