Book extracts
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 20:35
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In this extract from the Introduction to his new book, Timelines, A Political History of the Modern World, John Rees looks at some of the forces that gave rise to the world in which we live.
Occupations, now part of the tradition of the student movement in Britain, radicalised and polarised the education debate, and involved new leaders that had never been involved in politics before.
As the prevailing tenor of the media becomes increasingly committed to the Israeli military’s point of view, so freedom of discourse in the Israeli academy firmly shuts down.
The limited public space available to question the Zionist narrative in the 1990s disappears as the Israeli media adopts an entirely uncritical perspective.
The third extract from Out of the Frame describes how Palestinian and Israeli historical dialogue breaks down almost as soon as it had begun.
As a young academic in Israel, Pappé discovered that the politics of free speech in the academy was more compromised than it appeared.
Ilan Pappé’s research on the Nakbah uncovered difficult truths about the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948, including evidence of war crimes committed by Israeli forces, and he was eventually hounded out of his academic post and Israel altogether. Here he questions standard accounts of the foundation of Israel and the Nakbah.
Tunisia's revolutionary uprising is described by Leila Basmoudi, who argues that the revolutions that have been unleashed across the Middle East are not over.
This extract introduces the struggle across California against cuts and fee increases, and the meaning of solidarity in action.
This extract focuses on Italy, and how precariousness has become a collective phenomenon.
In this extract, Nina Power illustrates the potential power of lecturers and students fighting together against cuts to higher education.
In this extract, Clare Solomon describes how the student mobilisation in late 2010, ignited by the NUS demonstration on 10th November, exposed the myth of student apathy.
John Rees looks at the Iraq war and whether the current government Inquiry will be a whitewash.
This Saturday thousands marched against the war in Afghanistan. This week we're posting extracts from More Articles...
- Tariq Ali: ‘Mirage of the Good War’ - part 4
- A history of student revolt - Timeline with John Rees
- Tariq Ali: ‘Mirage of the Good War’ - part 3
- Tariq Ali: ‘Mirage of the Good War’ - part 2
- Tariq Ali: ‘Mirage of the Good War’ - part 1
- Malalai Joya: ‘No nation can liberate another’ part 2
- Malalai Joya: ‘No nation can liberate another’ part 1
- None of us were like this before: the legacy
- None of us were like this before: Monstering
- None of us were like this before: Murder in Bagram
Events
Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham