Trotsky on Lenin - book review
A welcome new edition of neglected writing by Trotsky makes accessible revealing insights into Lenin and Russian society, finds Dominic Alexander
- Written by Dominic Alexander
- Category: Book Reviews
Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today - book review
Tear Gas shows that, historically, the use of tear gas escalates violence against protest, but movements can overcome such repressive force, argues Tom Whittaker
- Written by Tom Whittaker
- Category: Book Reviews
Adrift: A Secret Life of London's Waterways - book review
The fight against rapacious developers is at the heart of a new account of life on London’s canals, says John Rees
- Written by John Rees
- Category: Book Reviews
Countering Extremism in British schools? - book review
Countering Extremism, an account of the Birmingham schools ‘Trojan Horse affair’, is a devastating critique of government and media Islamophobia, finds Judy Cox
- Written by Judy Cox
- Category: Book Reviews
The Struggle for Development - book review
The Struggle for Development valuably debunks the statistics of neoliberal development, but an analysis of imperialism is needed too, argues Dominic Alexander
- Written by Dominic Alexander
- Category: Book Reviews
Mapping My Way Home - book review
Stephanie Urdang’s memoir reveals her courageous personal involvement in the struggles against apartheid and for national liberation in southern Africa, finds Jacqueline Mulhallen
- Written by Jacqueline Mulhallen
- Category: Book Reviews
Rethinking Democracy: Socialist Register 2018 - review
Socialism and democracy belong together, and recent popular movements of the left make possible a fight for authentic democracy, argues Sean Ledwith
- Written by Sean Ledwith
- Category: Book Reviews
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story - book review
The Last Earth tells the moving stories of eight Palestinian women’s and men’s experiences of persecution and the refugee camps, finds Ellen Graubart
- Written by Ellen Graubart
- Category: Book Reviews
What Is Islamophobia? - book review
The contributions in What is Islamophobia? show it as a form of racism driven in the first instance by the state and the war on terror, finds Shabbir Lakha
- Written by Shabbir Lakha
- Category: Book Reviews
The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey - book review
Veli Yadirgi argues that there is a clear relationship between the intentional de-development of mostly Kurdish regions of Turkey and the Kurdish question, finds Adam Tomes
- Written by Adam Tomes
- Category: Book Reviews
Republic of Islamophobia - book review
Republic of Islamophobia effectively analyses the nature and rise of the vindictive Islamophobia that has come to grip French politics and society, finds Susan Ram
- Written by Susan Ram
- Category: Book Reviews
Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy - book review
The root of the constitutional coup in Brazil lay in Lula and Rousseff’s attempt to marry inclusive democracy with the exclusionary logic of neoliberalism, finds Orlando Hill
- Written by Orlando Hill
- Category: Book Reviews