The May issue of Monthly Review is the best for a long time. It contains an outstanding article on Albert Einstein’s Marxist politics (by John J Simon and available at http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/); a very useful piece commemorating the 20th anniversary of… Continue Reading
A review of Hugh Purcell, The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949 (Sutton, 2000), £20 ‘You probably have not heard of Tom Wintringham,’ writes Hugh Purcell, ‘but by the time you have finished this book I hope you will agree… Continue Reading
A review of Julian Markels, The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature (Monthly Review Press, 2003), £15 Julian Markels’ book participates in a long-standing debate about the relationship between Marxism, class and literature. It sets itself apart, however, from many… Continue Reading
A review of Pavel V Maksakovsky, The Capitalist Cycle (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2004), Euro 59 There was a flourishing of Marxist intellectual life in the Russia of the mid-1920s that was wiped out with the final triumph of… Continue Reading
A review of lain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette and Elizabeth Whitmore (eds), Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work (Routledge, 2005), £22,99 Neo-liberalism has enormously increased global immiseration over the last 40 years. For those of us involved through that period in… Continue Reading
A review of John Landers, The Field and the Forge (Oxford University Press, 2005), £22.50 This book is an account of the transition from what John Landers calls the ‘organic economy’, that is an economy based on agrarian production with… Continue Reading
A review of China Mieville, Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2005), Euro 69 Did Tony Blair break international law in his support for the American invasion of Iraq? Could he be… Continue Reading
A review of Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003), £16.99 and Lyndall Gordon, Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus (Virago, 2005), £25 Over 200 years after her death at the young age of 38 the life, writings… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Barratt Brown, From Tito to Milosevic: Yugoslavia, a lost country (Merlin Press, 2005), £;14.95 During the Cold War, Tito’s Yugoslavia held a special place in the hearts of many on the left who regarded it as… Continue Reading
The commission was chaired by Bob Geldof and headed by prime minister Tony Blair, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown, and minister for international development Hilary Benn. It also included: Michel Camdessus, who as managing director of the IMF until… Continue Reading