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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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What went wrong with education? From Exam Factories to Communities of Discovery calls for an alternative to the marketisation of our schools and colleges

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This new book looks at women's lives under the tsars, from their contribution to art and culture to their struggle to escape the violence of the family and gain independence

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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.

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