Society & Culture > Reviews
Waste, destruction and misery
29 Oct 2020
Michael Roberts reviews Hadas Thier's 'A people’s guide to capitalism'
Units of state terrorism
15 Oct 2020
David John Douglass reviews Harry McCallion 'Undercover war: Britain’s special forces and their secret battle against the IRA'
Shattering account
08 Oct 2020
George Evans reviews Clare Cowen's 'My search for revolution - and how we brought down an abusive leader'
Incoherent mosaic
17 Sep 2020
Mike Macnair reviews 'Degrowth in movement(s): exploring pathways to transformation', essays edited by Corinna Burkhart, Matthias Schmelzer and Nina Treu
Positive and negative
10 Sep 2020
Daniel Lazare reviews Christian Parenti's "Radical Hamilton: economic lessons from a misunderstood founder"
Defeat of syndicalism
10 Sep 2020
David Douglass reviews Ian Wright's "God’s beautiful sunshine: the 1921 miners’ lockout in the Forest of Dean"
Wrongly overlooked thinker
23 Jul 2020
David Broder reviews Pietro Basso's 'The science and passion of communism: selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)'
Contradictions of Zionism
09 Jul 2020
Tony Greenstein reviews Daphna Levit's 'Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish voices of dissent'
What about the root causes?
04 Jun 2020
Rutger Bregman Humankind: a hopeful history Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, pp496, £20
Rubbish tip of a world
29 Feb 2020
Bong Joon-ho (director) 'Parasite' 2019, general release.
Zionism and anti-Semitism
23 Feb 2020
Stanley Heller 'Zionist betrayal of Jews, from Herzl to Netanyahu' self-published, 2019, pp147. Available from Middle East Crisis Committee, Box 3626, Woodbridge CT, 06525, USA, for a donation of $10 or more.
Democracy and republic
13 Feb 2020
Ben Lewis (editor and translator) "Karl Kautsky on democracy and republicanism" Historical Materialism series No196, Brill, 2020, £121, pp352.
Proud Trotskyists
31 Jan 2020
Sylvia Riley "Winter at the bookshop, politics and poverty: St Ann’s in the 1960s" Five Leaves Publications, 2019, pp147, £7.99.
Land and the rentier economy
19 Dec 2019
Brett Christophers The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain Verso 2018, pp384, £20
Problematic Tory assumptions
31 Oct 2019
Jonathan Sumption 'Trials of the state: law and the decline of politics' Profile Books, 2019, pp112; £9.99