Reviews
How Nazism won
Mike Davis on chilling lessons
1933 Warnings from history by Paul Flewers (Ed.) published by Merlin Press
Does history repeat itself? This book provides some vital...
No model of Islamic democracy
Mary Southcott on Erdogan
The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan by David S Tonge...
Collaboration and oppression
Duncan Bowie on Russian rule
Occupation by David Lewis published by Hurst
This is the first book to study the occupation by Russia of south-Eastern...
Problems with Anglicanism
Duncan Bowie on a vitriolic attack
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism by Martin Percy published by Hurst
This is an important book, though a very frustrating...
Victims’ justice and war crimes
Duncan Bowie on the bombing of Japan and the Tokyo war trials
"Rain of Ruin" by Richard Overy published by Allen Lane
"Judgement at Tokyo" by...
Zero bucks given
Patrick Mulcahy on “off topic” US films
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of American films that don’t even remotely reflect what is happening in...
After Globalism
Bryn Jones on the future of Europe
Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck published by Verso
As an eminent sociologist...
Human rights, biopolitics, utopia
Mazin Zeki on human rights
States of Exception by Costas Douzinas published by Edward Elgar
Democracies are defined by the separation of powers and rule of...
Revolution and Self-Management
Andrew Coates on Pabloism
The well- dressed revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings by Hall Greenland published by Resistance Books.
“Michel...
Getting Real
Glyn Ford on China
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power by Kerry Brown - published by Yale University Press
Kerry Brown...
On failed heroes
Duncan Bowie on the Revolutionary Left
Raising the Red Flag by Tony Collins - published by Haymarket
This book is a study of the British revolutionary...
Populism
Denis Macshane on a taxonomy of the New Right
The Little Black Book of the Populist Right by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar - published by...