Reviews
Parliamentary revolutionaries
Duncan Bowie on a new study of the English Civil War
The Fiery Spirits by John Rees published by Verso
This is a very different...
Punk and Protest
Peter Hain on the ANL
A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown published by Bookmarks
Sunday, April 30th, 1978, standing on the stage...
True Democracy?
Duncan Bowie on the failure of the English republic
The Fall by Henry Reece published by Yale University Press
This study covers the twenty months between...
Seeing me hanging around
Patrick Mulcahy on Blue Moon
“Blue Moon”, the latest film from Richard Linklater, the second most prodigious director (after Steven Soderbergh), working in contemporary American...
The world according to the Paleolibertarians
Don Flynn on ideology of the new right
Hayek’s Bastards: The neoliberal roots of the populist right by Quinn Slobodian published by Zone Books
Wone Bookshether in...
Weimar and Hitler’s people
Duncan Bowie on German History
Vertigo by Harald Jahner published by W H Allen Hitler’s People by Richard Evans published by Allen Lane
Vertigo is,...
Third World Revolutionaries
Duncan Bowie on rebel thought
Global Marxism by Simin Fadaee published by Manchester University Press
The Rebel’s Clinic by Adam Shatz published by Head of Zeus
Fadaee’s...
Why “liberal” support for migration isn’t enough
Don Flynn on migration
Migration as Economic Imperialism by Immanuel Ness published by Polity
There is a strong tendency at the liberal end of commentary on immigration...
Power shift
Glyn Ford on China
Great Game On: The Contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy by Geoff Raby published by Melbourne University Press
Australia’s former flamboyant,...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Glyn Ford on the Scarlet Flag
Red Threads; A History of the People’s Flag by Henry Bell published by Pluto
Bell covers the good, the bad...
I scoffed the sheriff
Patrick Mulcahy on Covid film without answers
I arrived late to the Ari Aster party, having not seen Hereditary, Midsommer,or Beau is Afraid. However, any...
Graphic anti-capitalism
Mike Davis on a page-turning drama
This Slavery by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard published by Self Made Hero
This stunning graphic novel is adapted from the...