Society & Culture > Reviews
Dour pessimism
02 Oct 1997
Alan Fox reviews 'Cross purpose' by Albert Camus (Prince Theatre, Greenwich, to October 5)
True spirit of Cliffism
18 Sep 1997
Jim Higgins’ More years of the locust: the origins of the Socialist Workers Party was reviewed by Mark Fischer in the Weekly Worker (August 21). Here Dave Hume adds his opinion of the International Socialist Group publication
Brief encounters
11 Sep 1997
Tom Ball reviews 'The censor' by Anthony Neilson (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, West Street, London WC2 to September 27)
You don’t play in clubs
11 Sep 1997
Phillip Watson reviews 'Free jazz: a collective improvisation' (Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, Atlantic CD)
A sectarian approach to self-determination
11 Sep 1997
Bob Pitt, editor of ‘What Next?’, reviews Jack Conrad’s pamphlet, Blair’s rigged referendum and Scotland’s right to self-determination
Raise the republican flag
04 Sep 1997
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) reviews Jack Conrad’s pamphlet, Blair’s rigged referendum and Scotland’s right to self-determination
Historic opportunity
28 Aug 1997
Gordon Morgan of Glasgow SSA reviews Jack Conrad’s pamphlet 'Blair’s rigged referendum and Scotland’s right to self-determination'
Paradise lost
21 Aug 1997
Julian Alford reviews ‘Not yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch’ by Jamie Owen Daniel and Tom Moylan
Cliffism against Cliff
21 Aug 1997
Ian Mahoney reviews ‘More years for the locust: the origins of the Socialist Workers Party’ by Jim Higgins
‘One day I’ll hav a proper job’
26 Jun 1997
Danny Hammill reviews 'School’s out: poems for school' by Benjamin Zephaniah (AK Press 1997, pp56, £3.95)
Puerile psycho-babble
22 May 1997
Mark Fischer reviews Marx: a clear guide by Edward Reiss (Pluto Press 1996, pp180)
Flashback to Spanish civil war
15 May 1997
Nick Clarke reviews A greater tomorrow by Hector MacMillan
Form and content
01 May 1997
Mark Fischer reviews The labour movement and the Internet: the new internationalism by Eric Lee (Pluto Press 1997, pp212)
Limitations of spontaneity
03 Apr 1997
Julian Alford reviews Caliban’s freedom - the early political thought of CLR James by Anthony Bogues (Pluto Press, pp224)
Sour dreams
20 Mar 1997
Kevin Watts reviews American Buffalo, written by David Mamet and directed by Lindsay Posner (the Young Vic Theatre Company at the South Bank, Waterloo, London)