Book Reviews
Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:02
Alex Snowdon recommends a collection of Trotsky’s that gives access to some of the best Marxist writing on a wide range of subjects
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The role of the mainstream media in the disinformation that has emanated from the ‘war on terror’ is explored in this excellent resource for the anti-war movement, argues Chris Nineham
The Femicide Machine examines the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Elaine Graham-Leigh asks whether the murders are peripheral or central to capitalism
Timelines by John Rees provides a political history of modern empire and its opponents that challenges the gaps and silences of standard narratives, argues Marienna Pope-Weidemann
The Black Power salute of 1968 is the most famous image of protest in Olympic history, and John Carlos’ new memoir is a moving political testimony, argues Neil Faulkner
Norman Finkelstein’s new book, Knowing Too Much, shows that support for Israel is declining among American Jews, as evidence of Israeli wrongs is now unavoidable, argues Season Butler.
Revolution in the ancient world has plenty to teach us today, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh, welcoming the new edition of Neil Faulkner’s Apocalypse, looking at the Jewish revolt of AD66-73
What went wrong with education? From Exam Factories to Communities of Discovery calls for an alternative to the marketisation of our schools and colleges
The prevalence of drone attacks marks not only a moral outrage, but also a crisis of strategy in the so-called war on terror, argues Alistair Cartwright in a review of Medea Benjamin’s Drone Warfare
The financial crisis of 2008 should have entirely discredited neoliberal economics, underlining the necessity of arguing for a different economics based on collective needs and values
The magnificent energy of the 2011 Wisconsin labour protests is vividly captured in a collection of essays that also assesses the significance and lessons of the movement, argues Richard Allday
Palestinians have been subjected to systematic violence and displacement in a process similar to that suffered by other victims of European colonisation. Key to challenging it is reclaiming Palestinian history, for which this book is important, argues Bernard Regan.
A new collection of essays fruitfully explores the interconnections of politics, technology and geography, taking perspectives away from the centres of imperial power, and revealing clearly the webs of imperial power
The ‘Tea Party’ comes in for close scrutiny in a new book by Anthony DiMaggio, which exposes that faction’s pretensions to be a real social movement as false, dominated as it is from the top-down by established right-wing forces, argues William Alderson.
A new book on black Americans in the revolutionary war of independence reveals the contradictory nature of bourgeois revolution, and rescues forgotten heroes of liberation, argues Neil Faulkner.
Richard Wolin provides a fascinating account of the intellectual confusion that followed May '68, but takes an ambivalent attitude towards the revolutionary potential it generated, argues Feyzi Ismail.
Henry Heller’s Birth of Capitalism is a lucid and comprehensive introduction to a range of central debates concerning Marxist arguments and interpretations of recent history.
A wide-ranging book of essays, Defending Multiculturalism is a very welcome resource, debunking anti-immigrant myths, challenging the current Islamophobic agenda, and relating present racisms to those of the past, argues Kabir Joshi.
Ilan Pappé exposes the undemocratic and racist character of the Israeli state, not only providing shocking detail of the persecution of Israeli Palestinians, but also a history of that community’s strategies of resistance.More Articles...
- An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
- Democracy under Attack: how the media distort policy and politics
- Revolutionary Doctors
- Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
- Why It’s Kicking off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
- Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume II
- Race and Class: Black History, Black Struggle
- New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe
- Paul Mason: Rare Earth
- Why Noise Matters
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
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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