BOOKS

The Longest Night

Oil’s history: dissecting the many‑headed hydra

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

More 3 Body Problems

Disability Praxis: A Marxist Analysis of Oppression and Liberation

Remarks on a tendentious review of my booklet, Israel’s War on Gaza

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

Sea of Troubles Connects the Bloody Dots from Mediterranean to Gaza

My top five reads of 2023

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.

Optimism of the intellect

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

Revisiting Marxism 2023: The SWP Rebuilds its Ranks

For Palestine: Remembering Tom Hurndall and many struggles

Che Guevara: Marxist intellectual?

Paine was fantastical

Support the Indigenous movement in Ecuador

Uprising: the October Rebellion in Ecuador

UPRISING is a detailed description and analysis of the Indigenous-led uprising of October 2019 in Ecuador, written by three people deeply involved in the revolt. The lead author, Leonidas Iza, came to national prominence as one of the central leaders of the rebellion.

The New Cold War with Gilbert Achcar

JOINT PRESS RELEASE by Éditions La Fabrique (Paris) and Verso Books (London)

Mussolini’s Children

Lenin reading Hegel

“The world situation is that of a new cold war”

Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism

Voices of the Ukrainian Resistance

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

Dystopian movies chart the rise of Apocalypse capitalism – part 1

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

ACRadio Episode 6 – Ian Parker on Stalinist Realism and Open Communism

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

Queering Everybody I

The Arabs and the Holocaust – a talk with Gilbert Achcar

Making sense of the Ukraine war

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

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

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

Digital work and exploitation

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

Stalinist Realism and Open Communism

Achieving climate justice is about solidarity across borders. Not charity

Voices From Ukraine

UKRAINE: Voices of resistance and solidarity

Workers can win – a handbook for all trade union activists

How to Feed the World Without Destroying the Planet

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?

New Book: Stalinist Realism and Open Communism

Ian Parker // 14.09.2022

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

The Crisis of Capitalist Rule

Many Nations Have Used COVID to Impose the Tyranny of Transnational Capital

Speaking Fiction to Power

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’

To Understand Elon Musk, You Have to Understand This ’60s Sci‑Fi Novel

Psychoanalysis practised as a form of resistance under occupation

For a People’s History of Psychoanalysis’

Gilbert Achcar in conversation

07.05.2022

Inside Putin’s Russia

The People Want

Gilbert Achcar, Kevin B Anderson // 24.04.2022

No perfect Lenin: Review of ‘Revolutionary Collective’

Class against class

RADICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ANTI‑CAPITALIST ACTION

Falling Down

The three engines of history

Rescued from history, Rome’s dissident communist partisans

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

When Comic Books Threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)

Hank Kennedy // 30.12.2021

An Anthropology of Marxism: Review

Book review 2021: Five old crackers

Radical Psychoanalysis Reading

Fourth International in Manchester Group // 09.12.2021

The Second Revolution by Axel Weipert

19.10.2021

Video‑ Fight The Fire with Jonathan Neale

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 28.09.2021

New book launch

Fighting disaster capitalism with ecosocialism

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