Reviews

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...

Green transitional programme

Mark Douglas on good ideas but asks how to enact? Manifesto for Eco-Socialist revolution - Fourth International Resistance Books It's good news when a new manifesto...

Transitory truth of US democracy

Glyn Ford on a tale for today The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha published by...

Robbery, death and destruction of Africa

Michael Nelson Byaruhanga on the dehistorisation of a continent "The African Revolution" by Richard Reid published by Princeton University Press In the forest of pages,...

Principles and pragmatism

Duncan Bowie on 70 years of the peace movement The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament by Martin Shaw published by Agenda   Books on CND tend to...

Challenging Putin

Pete Duncan on Russian mercenaries The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army by Jack Margolin published Reaktion Books The unsuccessful mutiny of the Wagner Group, led...

People’s economy

Linda Wainwright on a dissenting voice The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton published by John Murray This book provokes a shift in perception that is difficult...

Waiting Game

Patrick Mulcahy on Trump’s war on independent film There is nothing remotely amusing about Donald Trump’s second term as US President. An angry narcissist who...

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...