Society & Culture > Reviews
Collapse of Corbyn project
04 Feb 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Left out: the inside story of Labour under Corbyn' by Benjamin Pogrund and Patrick McGuire as well Owen Jones's 'This land: the struggle for the left'
Hispaniola shibboleth
21 Jan 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'The farming of bones' by Edwidge Danticat
Engels’ original sin?
14 Jan 2021
Mike Macnair reviews 'Marx, Engels and modern British socialism: the political thought of HM Hyndman, EB Bax and William Morris' by Seamus Flaherty
No apologia
10 Dec 2020
Bernard Mattson reviews Victor Grossman's 'A socialist defector - from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee'
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.