Coal and Clausewitz. Lawrence Parker reviews Nina Fishman’s ‘Arthur Horner: a political biography’ (Vol 1 1894-1944; Vol 2 1944-68), Lawrence and Wishart, 2010, pp608, £22.50 each. While writing this review, my attention was drawn to a Doncaster Socialist Workers Party resignation letter that has recently been circulating on the internet. In the letter, the...
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Liquid research. David Douglass reviews Mike Pentelow and Peter Arkell’s ‘A pub crawl through history: the ultimate boozers’ Who’s who’ Janus, 2010, pp368, £16.99. This is the most amusing, interesting and informative view of history I have come across. Told through the pub signs...
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Co-ops against capitalism. Arthur Bough reviews Nicole Robertson’s ‘The co-operative movement and communities in Britain, 1914-60′ Ashgate, 2010, pp268, £55. For today’s generation, growing up in a world dominated by Tesco, it’s impossible to understand how important the Co-op was in working class life....
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Models of revolution. Mike Macnair reviews Henry Heller’s ‘The bourgeois revolution in France 1789-1815′ Bergahn Books, 2006, pp172, £20.13; and, David Parker’s (ed) ‘Ideology, absolutism and the English revolution:...
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Integration and working class culture. David Bates reviews Dave Renton’s ‘Colour blind? Race and migration in north-east England since 1945′ University of Sunderland Press, 2008, pp286, £10.95. For over...
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David Harvey interview
Rethinking revolution. David Harvey, Marxist academic and author of the newly published The enigma of capital, spoke to Mark Fischer. Many commentators, from both Marxist and non-Marxist standpoints, predicted...
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