Reviews
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...
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...
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...
No simple dichotomy?
Rory O’Kelly on autocrats
"Autocracy, Inc.: The dictators who want to run the world" by Anne Applebaum published by Allen Lane
This book was published...
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...
Reviving democratic socialism
Frank Hansen on a challenge to the left
"The Long Retreat - strategies to reverse the decline of the left" by Boris Kagarlitsky published by...
A Complete Vacuum
Patrick Mulcahy on early Dylan on screen
Lately filmmakers – and their subjects – have been messing with the format of the traditional music biography....
Inevitability of failure
Brian O’Leary on a fatalistic view of Soviet demise
"Why communism failed" by Jasper Becker - published by Hurst
This book crudely sees the command economy...
Ticket to Trumpland
Victor Anderson tries to understand Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatism
"Conservatism in Crisis - Rise of the Bureaucratic Class" (Renewal 2030) : Introduction by Kemi Badenoch
This pamphlet...