Society & Culture > Reviews
Understanding the Soviet Union
24 Jun 1999
Phil Watson reviews 'Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia', edited by Michael Cox (Pinter Publishers 1998, pp294, £15.99)
Human affirmation
27 May 1999
Phil Watson reviews 'A love supreme' by John Coltrane (Impulse CD)
Enriched pit culture
20 May 1999
Dave Douglass reviews 'The Foreigner' by Paul Cox
Exposing the fault lines
20 May 1999
Philip Bounds reviews 'The origins of postmodernity' by Perry Anderson (Verso 1998, pp143, £11) and 'The cultural turn: selected writings on the postmodern 1983-1998' by Frederic Jameson (Verso 1998, pp206, £11)
Cool Cymru?
29 Apr 1999
Mark Fischer reviews ‘Wales: class struggle and socialism’ by Charlie Kimber (Socialist Workers Party 1999, pp47)
Cold War legacy
25 Mar 1999
Phil Watson reviews 'Formation 60: modern jazz from Eastern Germany - Amiga 1957-69' (Various artists, Jazzanova Compost Records)
Moralism and morality
04 Feb 1999
Jack Conrad reviews 'You’ll have had your hole', written by Irvine Welsh and directed by Ian Brown (Astoria 2, London, February 2 - March 27, Mondays to Thursdays £14.75, Fridays to Saturdays £16.75, cons £10)
Cyberspace revolution
17 Dec 1998
Steve Riley argues that communists should make full use of the internet, and reviews two invaluable websites
Philosophy, history and biology: Towards a critique of science
17 Dec 1998
Danny Hammill reviews ‘Lifelines: biology, freedom, determinism’ by Steven Rose (Penguin 1998, pp334, £8.99)
Third way to nowhere
17 Dec 1998
Maurice Bernal reviews ‘The third way: the renewal of social democracy’ (Polity Press, 1998, pp166) by A Giddens, a work which some have claimed provides the theoretical underpinning for Blairism.
Caste of millions
03 Dec 1998
Katrina Haynes reviews 'Antz'
Groping towards a theory
20 Aug 1998
Jack Conrad reviews 'The fate of the Russian Revolution Vol 1', edited by Sean Matgamna (London 1998, pp603, £16.99)
Theatre of dissent
04 Jun 1998
Jack Conrad reviews 'Seeing Red - part two', May 26 - June 14, Battersea Arts Centre, directors Lisa Goldman and Deborah Bruce
Cold War babies
07 May 1998
Phil Watson reviews ‘Children of the revolution - communist childhood in Cold War Britain’ by Phil Cohen
Redrawing boundaries
02 Apr 1998
Phil Watson reviews 'For Marx' by Louis Althusser