Reviews
Calculated Killing
Patrick Mulcahy on NAZA & Inside Gaza
The late evening audience at Finsbury Park Picturehouse filed out quietly, overwhelmed by the subject matter of the...
Trying to Prevent Conflict
Gill Bennett on the Foreign Office
Peace Makers: Shaping the Modern World: The Men and Women of the Foreign Office in WWII by Peter Ricketts...
On sociability and violence
Mike Davis on an insightful libertarian socialist
Andrea Caffi The New York Essays ed Mike Tyldesley published by Little Big Eye
This collection of essays...
A concise and powerful expression
Zain Sardar on Einstein’s Socialism
Why Socialism?: The Enduring Relevance of His Classic Essay ed. John Bellamy Foster published by Monthly Review Press
Critically acclaimed biographies...
Which people, which revolution?
Victor Anderson on Populism in France
Now, the People!: Revolution in the 21st Century by Jean-Luc Melenchon published by Verso
Jean-Luc Melenchon could become President of...
In place of squalor
Duncan Bowie on postwar housing policy
The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation by Phil Child published by Bloomsbury
This book focuses on Labour Party policy...
Life of a German Jacobin
Glyn Ford on a great visionary
The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf published by Allen...
Act of solidarity
Glyn Ford on the other Spanish republicans
Volunteers for the Revolution: International Militia of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan published...
Revolutionaries in Fitzrovia
Duncan Bowie on Communards in exile
The Paris Commune in Britain by Laura Forster published by Oxford University Press
This is an important book as...
Journey’s End
Patrick Mulcahy on Nolan’s questioning of heroism and killing
The Odyssey, British writer-director Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, is no ordinary hero’s...
Internationalism or barbarism?
Duncan Bowie on the French left
Beyond the Tricolour by Ian Birchall Published by Haymarket
This is Ian Birchall’s magnum opus: a study of the French...
Solidarity with a blind spot
Mike Davis on 60 years of activism
Wherever the Struggle Is by Bob Newland published by Merlin Press
Bob’s a mate. We met in the Wapping...