Reviews
19 September 2021 · France, Reviews
The Paris Commune: an ode to emancipation
A review by Siyabulela Mama of the book published by Resistance Books. We do not pay homage to a man, a hero or a great thinker, but to a crowd of anonymous people whom we refuse to forget. …
17 January 2021 · · Reviews
Dear Comrades! These people have to be forgotten
Ironic Stalinism is making a bit of a comeback on social media among idiots who fancy themselves to be on the left and choose to find something amusingly unconventional about celebrating a m…
21 December 2020 · · Culture, Reviews, Uncategorized · 2 comments
“I will show your illustrious Lordship what a woman can do”
The Art and Life of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593- 1654) Dave Kellaway reviews the current National Gallery exhibition (until 24 th January) Caravaggio (left), Gentileschi (right) The pictures…
4 December 2020 · Reviews
Socialisms: A critical debate
Catherine Samary reviews's Ian Parker's - Socialisms Revolutions betrayed, mislaid and unmade Published by Resistance Books and the IIRE Ian Parker is an activist and academic based in Manch…
30 November 2020 · Reviews · 1 comment
I’m not being racialist...but
Paul Embery’s new book Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class is reviewed by Andy Stowe . Coffee has never passed this reviewer’s lips, never mind skinny latte macchiato wan…
29 November 2020 · Reviews · 1 comment
Socialism will never work, it’s human nature innit?
Dave Kellaway engages with the writings of Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of Utopia for Realists (Bloomsbury 2017) and Humankind – A Hopeful History (Bloomsbury 2020) How many times, whe…
17 November 2020 · Reviews
Eighteen and Mountbatten
Thirteen dead and not forgotten We got eighteen and Mountbatten Our newly appointed Royal correspondent Andy Stowe offers his judgement on the first episode of series four of The Crown which…
23 October 2020 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Prophet Prolonged....?
Dave Kellaway reviews Dan La Botz’s book, Trotsky in Tijuana , published by BookLocker.com, Florida 2020 Trotsky invites his young follower, Ramon Mercader, into his study to discuss an arti…
13 October 2020 · · Biodiversity, Reviews
Saving life on earth
I have just watched the new film " A Life On Our Planet " with my family and found it incredibly moving, writes Rob Marsden .David Attenborough was a childhood hero of mine - I was nine year…
1 October 2020 · Reviews
How much would you pay for a jar of honey?
Andy Stowe read (most of - before giving up in disgust) the sensational political diary of the year so that you don’t have to. We know so little about what happened in previous centuries and…
9 September 2020 · · Reviews
The wretched poor of Paris
Viewed in late 2020 the opening scene of Ladj Ly’s film Les Misérables looks like it was shot in an alternative reality writes Andy Stowe . Hundreds of football fans are crowded together in …
14 August 2020 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Reviews
Cometh the [midnight] hour, cometh the book!
Allan Todd reviews Derek Wall’s 2020 Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis published by Merlin Press. This book had me from its very first page, with this well-chosen …
8 July 2020 · Reviews · 3 comments
Lost
We republish here a review of Ian Parker’s Mapping the English Left through Film: Twenty Five Uneasy Pieces which appeared in Worker’s Millstone , organ of the Tendency for the Redevelopment…
4 July 2020 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Corrupt socialists? Heaven forfend!
Andy Stowe reviews the French political drama Baron Noir Did you know that some people sign up to the thirty-day free trial on Amazon Prime, watch everything they want to, then cancel the su…
3 July 2020 · Belgium, Fourth international, France, Germany, Reviews · 2 comments
“Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers”
“Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers” – by Nathaniel Flakin, Pluto Press 2019 Reviewed by Philip Ward Most people in the revolutionary socialist movement who have …
23 June 2020 · Disabled Peoples' Movement, Reviews
What I got from "More than a Left Foot" and why you should buy it
Sandra Webster of the Scottish Socialist Party comments on More Than a Left Foot by Bob Williams-Findlay. I learned so much and must thoroughly recommend this book. It is a book about where …
21 June 2020 · Disabled Peoples' Movement, Reviews, students
More than a Left Foot
More than a Left Foot by Bob Williams-Findlay Resistance Books , 2020, reviewed by Dave Kellaway Bob Findlay’s final sentence in his book hopes that “it has provided an insight into an array…
14 June 2020 · Reviews
'Searching for Socialism' - a review
Searching for Socialism, The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn , by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch, London: Verso Books, 2020. A review by Tony Richardson. I was particularly in…
3 June 2020 · · Our History, Reviews · 1 comment
The Living Flame
The Living Flame – the revolutionary passion of Rosa Luxemburg Haymarket books 2019 Dave Kellaway reviews Paul Le Blanc’s book Paul Le Blanc’s book is a very readable starter for anybody who…
7 May 2020 · Reviews · 3 comments
Review of “Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey” by Suzanne Berliner Weiss
Introduction I have recently read several accounts by Jewish Holocaust survivors of their experiences during World War II and their subsequent efforts to come to terms with them. Alongside t…
1 May 2020 · Reviews · 1 comment
Believe it or not!
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalyptic Communism by A. M. Gittlitz published by Pluto, reviewed by Ian Parker In 1962, just as the Fourth International was preparing its reunifica…
22 April 2020 · Reviews
Disaster Communism
Ian Parker reads Slavoj Žižek’s PANDEMIC!: COVID-19 Shakes the World very fast. A few days ago a little old lady at the greengrocers edged to the side of the vegetable display to let me pass…
4 April 2020 · Reviews · 1 comment
Understanding the Holocaust
Review essay of Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of History (author: Enzo Traverso ) by Emeritus Professor Henry Maitles, University of the West of …
9 March 2020 · Culture, Reviews
More than a cultist
Andrew Coates reviews Memoirs of a Critical Communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International , by Livio Maitan. Livio Maitan (1923–2004) was a leading figure in the international Tro…
6 March 2020 · Reviews
Dark Waters – a corporate cover-up
Dark Waters directed by Todd Haynes, 2020 reviewed by Dave Kellaway This film tells the true story of a corporate lawyer, Ron Bobitt, who started out defending big chemical companies like Du…
29 February 2020 · · Culture, Reviews, Uncategorized
Greed – comedy with a kick
We are living through something of a golden age of class war cinema writes Andy Stowe. Joker offered us an urban rebellion against the rich; Parasite showed them getting their comeuppance fr…
17 February 2020 · Reviews · 3 comments
Winter in the Bookshop
Winter in the Bookshop by Sylvia Riley, published by Five Leaves Publications. Reviewed by Julian Atkinson Sylvia Riley is a writer of distinction. Her first story “Trotsky’s Other Son” (con…
10 February 2020 · Reviews · 1 comment
If I had all this money, I'd be nice, too!
Parasite by Korean director Bong Joon Ho, which has done so well at the Oscars, is at its heart about class war and family. Andy Stowe will try to persuade you to go and see it - while attem…
7 February 2020 · Reviews · 1 comment
Fighting Shy
Ian Parker takes a tentative peek at Hamja Ahsan’s Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (3 rd Edition, 2019, Bookworks). This book is no joke. Or, it is a joke t…
31 January 2020 · Reviews, Uncategorized
Heroism of reason
Livio Maitan, Memoirs of a critical communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International , Preface by Daniel Bensaid, translated by Gregor Benton, edited with and introduction by Penelop…
31 January 2020 · · Reviews, Uncategorized
1917 reviewed
You can tell 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, is an important film as I was able to watch it in my local cinema in a village in Carmarthenshire within a few days of its nationwide release, writ…
28 January 2020 · · Reviews
Orwell, Anti-colonialist, Anti-fascist …. Blue Labour?
Any writer dead for 70 years who has two popular TV shows which directly reference his work – Big Brother and Room 101 – must be of some importance both to national and international culture…
2 December 2019 · Britain, Reviews, Tories
Change the Record
Ian Parker read David Cameron’s smug self-serving shite in his For the Record memoirs so you don’t have to. Every month, David Cameron tells us at the beginning of his memoirs, he offloaded …
1 December 2019 · Reviews
Free Associations in Psychoanalysis, one of its Red Threads
Ian Parker reflects on aspects of context that led him to write his recent book on his own experience of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis was a radical modern project, at one with the developm…
16 November 2019 · · Climate Change, Reviews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inspires Labour’s GND
Alan Thornett reviews A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Dea l by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos, (London, Verso, 2019). 208 pp. £10.99 This …
13 November 2019 · Reviews
A paradigm of modern barbarism
Critique of Modern Barbarism - Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of history , by Enzo Traverso (pub. IIRE Amsterdam, 2019) reviewed by Herman Pieterson In its series Notebooks for…
28 October 2019 · · Ireland, Reviews
The DUP’s chickenshit scandal
Barney Cassidy reviews Burned by Sam McBride (380pp £16.99) If you eat chicken that’s been bought in Tesco, the Co-Operative, Waitrose, Aldi, Iceland or your local takeaway there’s a good ch…
13 October 2019 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Joker – is it getting crazier out there?
" What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you fuckin' deserve! " Joker Joker was such an overwhelming fil…
27 September 2019 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Left Hooked on Twitter
Ian Parker reviews Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine , lured by birdsong into the pit of hell Mass social media, with Twitter as one of its key platforms, presents itself as the ultim…
21 August 2019 · Reviews
Facing the Apocalypse reviewed
Facing the Apocalypse - Arguments for ecosocialism by Alan Thornett, Resistance Books 2019 reviewed by Hans A Bauer. This review was first published by E-International Relations in July 2019…
29 July 2019 · · Reviews
Decolonial Communism reviewed
Andy Kilmister reviews Decolonial Communism, Democracy and the Commons , by Catherine Samary, with contributions from Samuel Farber, Silvia Federici, Franck Gaudichaud, Zagorska Golubovic, E…
8 July 2019 · Ecosocialism, Our History, Reviews · 1 comment
Population and contraception: the Godwin, Malthus, Place, debate
William Godwin: A Political Life by Richard Gough Thomas, published by Pluto Press in 2019 reviewed by Alan Thornett This biography is well written and informative. It is a good summary of W…
4 July 2019 · Culture, Reviews · 1 comment
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
Bob Williams-Findlay reviews CRIPPLED: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People , by Frances Ryan; Verso Books, June 2019. When the initial request asking to review Frances Ryan's n…
18 June 2019 · · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism
by Alan Thornett, Resistance Books & IIRE, 2019, 310 pages reviewed by Michael Lowy This is an important book . One may disagree on some issues -e.g. population, which I do not believe shoul…
8 June 2019 · · Reviews
Chernobyl, the Soviet Union and Marxism
The superb new HBO TV series Chernobyl dramatises the Marxist understanding of the Soviet Union writes Andy Stowe. Chernobyl captures that sense of shoddiness and bleakness in the final days…
23 May 2019 · Culture, Reviews
Left Wing Melancholia
LEFT WING MELANCHOLIA – MARXISM, HISTORY AND MEMORY. by Enzo Traverso, pub. Columbia University Press, 2017. It was the title that appealed. Three years ago we were part of an explosive upsu…
7 May 2019 · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for Ecosocialism
Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for Ecosocialism; by Alan Thornett RRP £17. Pub. Resistance Books and Merlin Press.ISBN: 978-0-902869-91-2; 342pages, reviewed by Pete Murry I’m not sure th…
29 April 2019 · · Far right, Reviews
Postfascism: the rise of the radical right
Phil Hearse reviews New Faces of Fascism by Enzo Traverso, Verso, 2018 The forward surge of fascist and far right movements, symbolised by figures like Trump, Bolsonaro in Brazil and Salvini…
7 March 2019 · · Britain, Ireland, Reviews
I, Dolours: a woman’s political biography
Barney Cassidy reviews I, Dolours , now available on Netflix. As a child growing up in a Belfast Republican family, Dolours Price was given a particular responsibility when she reached the a…
19 February 2019 · Ecosocialism, Latin America, Reviews
Hugo Blanco: From Trotskyism to Indigenous Vitality
As Hugo Blanco is due to speak at a series of meetings across Britain, we reprint a review in which Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for…
17 February 2019 · Labour Party, Reviews, antisemitism · 4 comments
WitchHunt – how antisemitism is weaponised
A review of the new film WitchHunt (Jon Pullman, 2019, 62 mins) by Dave Kellaway The Rio cinema in Hackney was nearly completely full for the premiere of the new film WitchHunt by Jon Pullma…
22 November 2018 · · Economics, Reviews
Economics for the Many
Tony Traub reviews Economics for the Many, edited by John McDonnell, Verso This book is a valuable collection of sixteen short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, coming up with prog…
16 November 2018 · · Indigenous struggles, Latin America, Peru, Reviews
Indigenous and International Struggle
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life , just published by Merlin Press with Resistance Books. Hugo Blanco is an inspiration to revolutionary ecosocia…
5 November 2018 · Brazil, Indigenous struggles, Latin America, Peru, Reviews
Hugo Blanco: From Trotskyism to Indigenous Vitality
Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for Land : Hugo Blanco is a figure of great significance for contemporary thought on revolutionary pote…
18 October 2018 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Peterloo – the relevance of history
Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo is the cinema of class war. It’s an unrepentantly pro-working class, anti-ruling class piece of work which every single Labour Party member, trade unionist and…
14 October 2018 · Housing, Ireland, Reviews
Ireland's Housing Crisis
Ireland’s Housing Crisis: A Marxist Analysis by John McAnulty reviewed by Glynn Robbins John McAnulty’s short, readable pamphlet couldn’t be timelier. On 3 rd October, a reported 12,000 peop…
18 September 2018 · Britain, Ireland, Reviews · 1 comment
A hidden history of British military repression against civilians
The Ballymurphy massacre has the simplest of all dramatic structures. It is a narrative built around a chronology - a three-day assault by the British Army on a Belfast housing estate follow…
10 September 2018 · Reviews · 2 comments
Freedom is only the freedom of dissenters
Working for the Stasi Working for Russia I don’t even know what money looks like Only tellings off, pays cuts, ingratitude commands The members of the East German punk band Namenlos were giv…
4 September 2018 · Reviews
Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell
Edited by David Margolies, Pluto, London, 2018. 192pp., £17.99 pb ISBN 9780745337227 Reviewed by Derek Wall On 15 th March this year Anna Campbell died in Syria. A feminist from Lewes in Sus…
31 August 2018 · · Black struggles, Reviews · 2 comments
BlacKkKlansman…..a warning from history
Speaking about his film BlacKkKlansman, director Spike Lee said “The film was in post-production when Charlottesville happened. Charlottesville wrote me a whole new ending”. This is very muc…
16 July 2018 · Reviews
Political education: someone’s done it better
Peter Drucker reviews David Camfield's We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society , Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2017, 168 pp., $25 Canadian The breathtakingly rapid changes in…
2 July 2018 · Reviews
How to see without a camera
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing at The Barbican, London, reviewed by Andy Stowe The clothes and vehicles are a bit different, but in many ways the subjects of Dorothea Lange's photos take…
29 May 2018 · · Reviews · 1 comment
The Young Marx
I was thoroughly enthused and inspired by Raoul Peck’s film The Young Marx, when I watched at the ICA, London recently, writes Derek Wall . However, I appreciate that not everyone who has se…
24 May 2018 · · Reviews
Is Fascism Inevitable?
Phil Hearse reviews Can Democracy Survive Globalised Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner, Norton Publishers, May 2018 Since the global financial crisis in 2007-8, and the consequent anti-capitalis…
16 April 2018 · Peru, Reviews · 1 comment
Hugo Blanco's "We the Indians" - essential reading for ecosocialists
We the Indians: The indigenous peoples of Peru and the struggles for land, Hugo Blanco, Merlin Press/Resistance Books reviewed by Derek Wall Hugo Blanco led a peasant uprising in Peru for la…
15 April 2018 · · Palestine, Reviews · 1 comment
Comedy from the front line
Showtime from the Frontline by Mark Thomas, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Alaa Shehada I’m sorry to be writing this review so close to the end of the run of this remarkable show as my message is t…
23 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, Reviews
Corbyn's path to power - a review
Alex Nunns', The Candidate; Jeremy Corbyn's improbable path to powe r, second edition is reviewed here by Margot Lindsay. Introduction In discussing the path to power, Nunns explains that th…
12 March 2018 · · LGBTIQ, Reviews, trade unions
Championing inclusion
Champions of Equality: Trade Unions and LGBT rights in Britain by Peter Purton, Lawrence and Wishart, 2017. Reviewed by Terry Conway. Peter Purton’s book is a real service to labour movement…
28 February 2018 · Labour Party, Reviews
For the Many … Preparing Labour for power
This impressive and varied collection of voices from the left weaves this anthology assembled by Mike Phipps. F or the Many …Preparing Labour for power is reviewed by Margot Lindsay. In the …
17 January 2018 · Reviews, USA · 1 comment
Inside Trump’s White House
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Henry Holt and Little, Brown, 2018) reviewed by Jo Taku Michael Wolff was able to take a seat inside the White House after Trump…
5 January 2018 · · Labour Party, Reviews
The Radical Rebirth of Corbynite Politics
Jo Taku reviews the Second Edition of Richard Seymour’s Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2017). This is a book that had its finger on the pulse in 2016 when it was fir…
13 November 2017 · Labour Party, Reviews
1997 - The Future that never happened
1997: The future that never happened by Richard Power Sayeed, published by Zed Books Ltd October 2017, 341 pages reviewed by Tony Traub The author, Richard Power Sayeed, takes a broad sweep …
9 November 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Green and Red Rules for Radicals
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals , just published by Pluto Press Of the main complaints made against ‘ecosocialist’ politics, attempts to combine R…
23 October 2017 · Reviews · 1 comment
Three cheers for The Death of Stalin
Andy Stowe is impressed by Armando Iannucci’s new film, The Death of Stalin. In 1956 Nikita Kruschchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) addressed the party’…
20 October 2017 · Reviews · 1 comment
Žižek vs Lenin, again
Ian Parker takes a look at ‘Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating and Working Through’ by VI Lenin and S Žižek (Verso, 2017) This book brings together some articles, letters and speeches by Vla…
10 October 2017 · · Eastern Europe, Reviews
A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams
Tony Traub reviews Aftershock - A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams by John Feffer, 573 pp, published by Zed Books, November 2017 The book was written by American journalist and no…
18 September 2017 · · Black struggles, Fourth international, Our History, Reviews
CLR James film feast
Ian Parker reviews Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and Works of C.L.R. James This film was released in April last year, and has been doing the rounds in meetings organised by differe…
11 September 2017 · Ireland, Reviews
To Hell with Charity
Struggle or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast’s 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots by Seán Mitchell. Published by Haymarket Books. Does intense class conflict with bosses, cops and government ne…
31 August 2017 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Words – weapons or straightjackets?
Dave Kellaway reviews Ian Parker’s ‘Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left’ (Zero Books, 2017} “It is that very familiarity with the same old language of the left, however, that is now part o…
11 August 2017 · · Reviews, Uncategorized
Love is not enough
Andy Stowe reviews Naomi Klein’s new book “ No Is Not Enough ” on Trump’s rise and her plan for defeating him. The first thing that hits you reading this very useful summary of the reasons b…
25 May 2017 · Reviews · 1 comment
October by China Mieville - a review
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, by China Mieville Verso, May 2017, £18.99. To commemorate 1917, Verso has delivered a brilliant piece of commissioning : a fantasy fiction novel…
2 May 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Dead Zone: Where the Wild things were
Alan Thornett reviews Philip Lymbery's important new book from Bloomsbury (2017) Bloomsbury Publishers, who published Elizabeth Kolberts The Sixth Extinction in 2014 has published another im…
30 April 2017 · · Reviews, Russian revolution
This bright life will come
Travelling to the British Library's impressive and unmissable Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths exhibition, I read an article on Putin's government's suppression of the Jehovah's Witn…
27 April 2017 · Mental Health, Reviews
Mad to be Normal
Ian Parker diagnoses what is wrong with this film: A new film about R D Laing should be something for the left to watch and learn from, about the politics of madness and the connection betwe…
4 April 2017 · Latin America, Reviews
The last day of oppression and the first day of the same
The last day of oppression and the first day of the same - the politics and economics of the New Latin American Left by Jeffrey R Webber 2016 (Pluto Press) reviewed by Dave Kellaway A year o…
24 February 2017 · Reviews
Black, female and hidden from history
Review of Hidden Figures (2017) Directed by Theodore Melfi, starring Taraji P. Henson , Octavia Spencer , Janelle Monáe by Dave Kellaway We go from being our father's daughters, to our husba…
20 February 2017 · Reviews · 2 comments
“Contracts are like hearts, they are made to be broken”
The Founder (2016) directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Micheal Keaton, Laura Dern reviewed by Dave Kellaway “You know what - contracts are like hearts, they are made to be broken.” So say…
13 February 2017 · · Reviews
Stalin's artistic counter-revolution
Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932 - An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 11 February —17 April 2017 (£16, £12 concessions) It's one of history's ironies writes Andy Stowe that …
11 February 2017 · Middle East, Reviews, Tunisia, Uncategorized
Brothers in power
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi, 2016 £16.99 reviewed by Farooq Suleheria The phenomenon of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is a vital case…
10 February 2017 · · Reviews
How will capitalism end?
Jane Shallice reviews How will capitalism end? by Wolfgang Streek. Published by Verso Books, October 2016, 272 pages image no longer in the archive Which socialist could resist a book with s…
1 February 2017 · Black struggles, Our History, Reviews, USA · 1 comment
A book to whet the appetite
W E Du Bois: Revolutionary across the colour line by Bill V Mullen published by Pluto Press, 2016, £12.99 Reviewed by Veronica Fagan I didn’t know a very much about W.E.B. Du Bois before I p…
2 January 2017 · · Reviews, Uncategorized
Why isn't God answering?
Andy Stowe reviews Silence by Martin Scorsese. Any film about Jesuit missionaries that has Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ( f or the greater glory of God), the Catholic order's motto, as the opening…
20 December 2016 · · Culture, Reviews
Rebellions are built on hope – a Star Wars review
Andy Stowe reviews Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Is science fiction set to become the popular storytelling vehicle of choice for writers and audiences who despise everything Donald Trump stan…
28 November 2016 · · Brazil, Reviews
Sport’s dance with the devil
Jane Shallice reviews Brazil's dance with the devil : The World Cup, the Olympics and the fight for democracy by Dave Zirin Haymarket Books $17.95 The Olympics! Who still harbours any illusi…
21 November 2016 · · Reviews, Spanish State
Politics in a Time of Crisis
Dave Kellaway reviews: Politics in a Time of Crisis : Podemos and the future of a Democratic Europe by Pablo Iglesias published by Verso Books One passage that made me sit up during Corbyn’s…
25 October 2016 · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Facing the Anthropocene
Facing the Anthropocene - fossil capitalism and the crisis of the earth system by Ian Angus (1) Monthly Review Press, October 2016 £15.99 Reviewed by Alan Thornett The first passage of the l…
30 September 2016 · · Culture, Reviews
Austerity kills real people
Terry Conway reviews Ken Loach's new film I, Daniel Blake I, Daniel Blake’s first showing in Britain was as part of the World Transformed organised by Momentum, on the same day as Jeremy Cor…
22 August 2016 · Reviews, South Africa
Spirited lessons from the platinum mines
The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa by Luke Sinwell with Siphiwe Mbatha Pluto Press reviewed by Norman Traub The lead author of this book, Luke Sinwe…