Book Reviews
Saturday, 04 June 2011 09:59
Lansley's plans for the NHS threaten its very existence. Health worker Marc Renwick looks at a vital new book for all those fighting to Keep our NHS Public
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In using a dialectical approach to scientific problems, Gould restores a sense of history to natural history, reflecting a movement from subjective to objective that parallels change in human social history.
China Miéville already has a considerable track record in socialist science fiction. His latest, Embassytown, can be seen as a contribution to materialist theories of consciousness, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh.
Michael Br√∂ning’s The Politics of Change in Palestine discusses the response of Palestinian political organisations to the challenge offered by US President Barak Obama in 2009. The book is clear and informative, but is lacking in alternatives that scrutinse Israel's role in the Middle East.
Martijn Konings presents an assortment of radical attempts to understand and analyse the crash, exposing the lack of a single, consistent framework that radical economists could offer to challenge mainstream orthodoxy.
Thirty years ago Michael L√∂wy wrote a brilliant and accessible analysis of the emergence and application of Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution. This new edition of his book is even more relevant read in the context of the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East today.
Banaji’s Theory as History provides an incisive analysis of pre-capitalist modes of production, demonstrating that no aspect of human history is irrelevant to the present.
Hidden Histories argues that the history of Palestine has been hidden, and that the struggle for Palestinian rights has also to encompass the struggle for their history and culture.
Chris Nineham reviews Marx at the Margins, which reveals Marx and Engels as pioneers in the struggle against colonialism and racism.
Clare Solomon has edited a book with Tania Palmieri on the students’ and young people’s uprisings that have shaken colleges and universities from Britain to Greece, Italy, France and beyond. Andrew Burgin explains its importance.
The first English translation of the classic novel of the Nakba, Khirbet Khizeh, has just been published by Granta. It is a powerful story of the real cost of the creation of the state of Israel.
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York are among the leading writers on climate change in the US, and no one reading this latest collection of their essays could leave it in any doubt of the seriousness of the situation in which unchecked climate change is now placing us.
David Cronin provides an indispensable account of Europe’s complicity with Israeli crimes in the occupied territories.
Can we solve the daunting problem of climate change within a capitalist system? This is no academic question - a wealth of scientific evidence points to the potentially catastrophic scale of climate change.
Conscious organisation at a political level had been crucial in the victories over the past two centuries, richly illustrated in E.P. Thompson's reprinted classic, argues Dominic Alexander.
For the last 30 years governments have stated their support for the NHS whilst insisting on the need for reform. But why have previous reforms not been successful? And what hope is there in future reforms? This book provides much of the answer.
The great socialist author Robert Tressell died 100 years ago. Josh Roebuck, a sixth former who has just joined Counterfire, explains why Tressell’s classic, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, helped make him a socialist, and urges everyone to read it.
Mészáros provides both an invaluable critique of particular figures, and a framework for understanding the problems of philosophy in the capitalist age; in doing so he reveals the serious viability of revolutionary Marxist thought.
The central argument of this book is that obesity and climate change, far from being separate ills afflicting twenty-first-century society, are twin facets of modern capitalism’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuels.
The account of the progress of Pappe’s research into the events of 1948, and the reception of the ‘New History’ in Israel in the 1990s and 2000s is placed in the context of a wider analysis of Zionist ideology, of the history of Palestine, and of the creation and development of the Israeli state.More Articles...
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31 May - 1 June 2013
an international festival
In the parks, halls and public spaces around Kings Cross
With:
David Harvey, Tariq Ali, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Sanum Ghafoor, Andrew Murray, Laurie Penny, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Paul Le Blanc, Terry Eagleton, Paul Gilroy and more...
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
Events
Books
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
By Neil Faulkner
The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
By John Rees
A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire 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
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