Reviews

Outcast?

Andrew Coates on the Rassemblement National Far-Right France: Le Pen, Bardella and the Future of Europe by Victor Mallet published by Hurst In the French local elections...

Update on Capital

Don Flynn on Marxist Political Economy today The Story of Capital by David Harvey published by Verso The revival of interest in Marxian studies of political...

Hair trigger tensions

Glyn Ford on the Volatility of Global Politics The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and the Warnings from History by Odd Arne Westad published by Allen...

Downfall of the Assad regime

Patrick Costello on Syria It Started in Damascus by Rime Allaf published by Hurst My Struggle for Syria by Bassma Kodmani published by I.B.Tauris Inevitably, there has...

Taken: Experiences of Forced Adoption

By Karen Constantine, published by Pram Publications This book is a difficult read, dealing with a subject that has been swept under the proverbial carpet...

An Informal Empire

Duncan Bowie on South America Small Earthquakes by Shafik Meghji published by Hurst Meghji is a London-based writer of travel guides. This new book focuses on...

Beyond “Institutional” racism and towards structure

Don Flynn on racial bias Structural Racism: The Dynamics of Opportunity and Race in America by Stephen Menendian published by Routledge It is now over a quarter of a...

Ukrainian writer soldier

Julie Ward on a writer putting words into action War From The Rear by Andriy Lyubka published by Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic...

Survival after Stalin

Nigel Doggett on Soviet dissidents To the Success of our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans published by...

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...