BOOK REVIEW

Oil’s history: dissecting the many‑headed hydra

Revolutionary History: Hotel Lux

Booker 2024

Daybreak in Gaza: A Review of Gaza’s Cultural and Historical Fabric Under Siege

A national scandal – but will Labour fix it?

Diane Defiant

Disaster Nationalism: A Glimpse into the Far Right’s Apocalyptic World

Review of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Jules Boycoff

How the City of London really works

Who was Che?

Burn Out: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Creeping Doppelgängers

Judith Butler on gender, reaction and resistance

Intimate Comrades: Speaking and acting personally and politically

Towers of Ivory and Steel

Disability Praxis: A Marxist Analysis of Oppression and Liberation

How Manchester was gifted to corporate landlords

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Two, three, many Lenins

Why Putin invaded: a socialist analysis

The Palestine Laboratory – How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world

Sea of Troubles Connects the Bloody Dots from Mediterranean to Gaza

My top five reads of 2023

Stranger in My Own Land

The Empire of Normality

Alexandria – the ideas store of the ancient world

The Plot

Can Global Capitalism Endure? A review of William Robinson’s latest book.

The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means Of Computation

Pablo – the footloose revolutionary

The right to work or the right to be lazy?

Left Alone: Accounts of being radical now

Ai Wei Wei – art against tyranny

Anarchists and Marxists

Mad World

On Charlie Hore’s Review of The New Cold War

Mussolini’s Children

Lenin reading Hegel

Voices of the Ukrainian Resistance

A People’s History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude (Pluto Press, 2022)

What’s Happening in India!

Queer Tolstoy and anti‑authoritarian struggle today

Queering Everybody Part II

ACRadio Episode 7 – Review of Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene

Kohei Saito’s new book asks: was Marx a degrowth communist? (Review)

Queering Everybody I

Making sense of the Ukraine war

Stalinist Realism and Open Communism: Malignant Mirror or Free Association (a review)

Transport: how Silicon Valley turns technologies against us all

Understanding Mark Fisher

Goldmann’s Wager

The Fate of Abraham

What China is reading

Books of the year

Five favourite books read in 2022

Can global capitalism endure?

Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity (a review)

The American Surveillance State

Barbara Kingsolver – Making the invisible, visible

The Autism Industrial Complex

Saito: the metabolic rift and de‑growth communism

Booker Books 2022

Red List

Essential reading for the radical left!

A Very British Conspiracy

Free Albania (not)

Secrets of a holiday island

Workers can win – a handbook for all trade union activists

How to Feed the World Without Destroying the Planet

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?

Singing to the Melody of Capital: The Penchant for the Sensational and Voyeuristic

What’s next for socialists in the Labour Party?

Trotsky, the Passionate Revolutionary

The struggle for socialism within Labour

Alienation, Spectacle, and Revolution: A Critical Marxist Essay – a review

Dystopian Science Fiction: Bodies of Ideology

Redeeming Marcuse

‘A SMALL BUT VERY USEFUL BOOK’

Psychoanalysis practised as a form of resistance under occupation

For a People’s History of Psychoanalysis’

Inside Putin’s Russia

The People Want

Gilbert Achcar, Kevin B Anderson // 24.04.2022

No perfect Lenin: Review of ‘Revolutionary Collective’

Towards a Theory of Modern Disaster Capitalism: Part III

Class against class

Engaging Federici on Marx, Capitalism, and Social Reproduction

Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel

Falling Down

Review of Ernest Mandel: Introduction to Marxist Theory

Fabian van Onzen // 18.02.2022

Capitalism’s Mind Games and Worse

Rescued from history, Rome’s dissident communist partisans

ALL IN ALL, IT’S JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL!

ECOSOCIALISM & rs21

An Anthropology of Marxism: Review

Book review 2021: Five old crackers

Response to Neil Faulkner

Essential knowledge for activists

Creeping Fascism Revisited

Shakespeare, Trotsky, and the Nature of Art

Psychoanalysis with the oppressed

A touch of John le Carré

07.09.2021

My Cultural Highlights

Lost in Work – Escaping Capitalism

Tony Richardson // 21.07.2021

Capitalism’s Conscience

Tony Richardson // 28.06.2021

Marxisms and Transitions

Terry Conway // 28.06.2021

Can the Ministry point to a better future?

Review: Fight the Fire – Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs

Tony Richardson // 03.05.2021

FAILURES OF STATE (a review)

Tony Richardson // 02.04.2021

Erich Fromm and Atomisation Anxiety

Rowan Fortune // 19.02.2021

Anyone for tennis?

Dave Kellaway // 01.01.2021

Fighting disaster capitalism with ecosocialism

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