The obituary pages of the left press are today increasingly reminding us of the vitality and intellectual vibrancy of the Marxism of the generation of 1968. In March, we lost Alain Krivine, a leading figure in the Trotskyist Fourth International… Continue Reading
A review of The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution, Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams (eds) (Parthian, 2021), £10 Mythmaking is plentiful in the political and cultural history of Wales. For instance, the antiquarian Iolo Morganwg (also… Continue Reading
A review of The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination, Richard Evans (Penguin, 2021), £9.99 Even as astute an historian as Richard Evans could never have foreseen the excellent timing of his latest work, which appeared amid… Continue Reading
A review of The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949, Ralf Ruckus (PM Press, 2021), £12 In The Communist Road to Capitalism German activist Ralf Ruckus takes a rather different approach… Continue Reading
A review of Dialectics of Revolution: Hegel, Marxism and its Critics through a Lens of Race, Class, Gender and Colonialism, Kevin B Anderson (Daraja Press, 2020), £20 Marxist theorist Kevin Anderson has had an abiding interest in reasserting the centrality… Continue Reading
A review of Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, Jane Hardy (Pluto, 2021), £19.99 A typical protocol for a book review is to begin with an outline of its purposes and structure, to proceed… Continue Reading
A review of The Broken Heart of America: St Louis and the Violent History of the United States, Walter Johnson (Basic, 2020), £15 The Broken Heart of America is a tremendous book that everyone interested in the history of the… Continue Reading
The need to “seize back control of fishing rights in British waters” was pitched as a symbol of all that was wrong with the European Union by the Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.1 The right-wing Brexit campaign, including Nigel… Continue Reading
The world economic crisis of 2008-9 and the politics of austerity it ushered in saw the rise of mass movements of resistance in many parts of the world.1 In some cases, this formed the context for the radical left to… Continue Reading
What has made sport so uniquely effective a medium for inculcating national feelings…is the ease with which even the least political or public individuals can identify with the nation as symbolised by young persons excelling at what practically every man… Continue Reading