Reviews
Global Behemoths: How shadow banks govern our lives
Bryn Jones on casino capitalism
The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet by Ann Pettifor published by Verso
The casino is...
Ancient history?
Gill Bennett on the Cold War from the Soviet perspective
The World of the Cold War 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok published by Penguin
Do we really...
Not a Revolution
Duncan Bowie on the General Strike
Nine Days in May by Jonathan Schneer published by Oxford University Press
It was perhaps inevitable that the centenary of...
On aggressive Zionism
Mike Scott-Baumann on Zionism and conflict
A Forever War: Israel, Palestine and the Struggles for Statehood by Colin Schindler published by Swift Press
Colin Shindler’s new...
A continuous tragedy
Patrick Costello on repeated errors
America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region by Marc Lynch published by Hurst
As Professor Marc Lynch explicitly states, his...
The waning of Françafrique
Nigel Watt on French Africa
Colonialism Devours Itself by Gerard Prunier published by Hurst
In 1945, France, briefly led by Charles De Gaulle, struggled to be...
No longer a joke
Duncan Bowie on Arctic geopolitics
So You Want to Own Greenland? by Elizabeth Buchanan published by Hurst
This book was published last September, before Donald Trump’s...
Lifeline to Freedom
Duncan Bowie on past welcomes for refugees
The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain by Charmian Brinson and Jana Barbora Buresova published by Valentine Mitchell
This...
Heart of the matter
Mike Davis on fundamental questions of post-colonialism
Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail by Peter Hain published by Policy Press
Peter Hain goes to the...
Chaos and the search for peace
Duncan Bowie on UN peacemaking
Libya since Qaddafi by Stephanie Williams published by Hurst
Williams is an experienced US diplomat who was sent by the UN...
Planetary disfigurement
Don Flynn on the new instruments of conquest
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities & Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Laleh Khalili published by Profile
First expectations of a...
But what about the McSweeney Files? The virus that corrupted Labour
Bryn Jones assesses the investigative journalism that has exposed dirty dealings in the party
The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British...