Reviews

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Semi-Detached

Glyn Ford on postwar Britain and Europe Between the Waves:The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 by Tom McTague published by Picador McTague provides...

Lessons for the Left?

Bryn Jones on the case for economic transformation "Capitalism and Its Critics" - A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World by John Cassidy published...

Flogging a dead donkey

Glyn Ford on losing an election "107 Days" by Kamala Harris published by Simon & Schuster Gerald Kaufman’s mean labelling of Labour’s 1983 manifesto, The New Hope...
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