Review | Disability Praxis
Disability Praxis covers some of today’s key debates on disability justice in Britain and the US. rs21 member Shiraz Hussain reviews.
Review | Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Around the world, the right are mobilising around “gender”. Colin Wilson reviews Judith Butler’s new intervention.
Review | What Was Neoliberalism?
What can we learn about neoliberalism from Neil Davidson’s new book? Charlie Post reviews ‘What Was Neoliberalism’
Review | The Vote
Danny Bee reviews Paul Foot’s ‘The Vote’ – how it was won and how it’s undermined.
This Town | Review
The recent BBC drama This Town was widely applauded by reviewers, but Pat Stack found its portrayal of Irish republicanism too inaccurate, distorted and biased to swallow.
Interview | Empire of Normality
Hazel Croft talks to author Robert Chapman about their new book and discusses neurodiversity and how we can challenge the capitalist logics of ‘normality’.
Review | The State and Revolution
Lenin’s The State and Revolution is one of the most important books he ever wrote, a restatement and rediscovery of the revolutionary understanding of the state.
Review | Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Housing activist Kate Bradley reviews Nick Bano’s Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Lenin, National Liberation and Palestine
Gus Woody reviews Imperialism and the National Question recently published by Verso.
Writing the future
Colin Wilson celebrates fantasy novel Babel, part of a growing trend for speculative fiction to include radical politics in work written by women, often women of colour.
Review | Ben Lewis, ‘Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism’
Is it time to re-evaluate renegade Kautsky? Andreas Chari reviews a new collection.
Learning from the Second International: a review of Reform, Revolution and Opportunism
Mike Taber’s new collection exposes fissures within the Second International.
Review | Shows at the Whitworth Gallery Manchester
Colonialism, art, the museum logistics chain. Gareth Dale reviews this month’s shows at the Whitworth.
Interview | Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
Matthew Cookson interviews the authors of a new graphic novel on the Haitian Revolution.
Where did all the gravediggers go?
‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’ asks important questions about class in Britain today, but lacks clarity in its answers.
Review | Mussolini’s Grandchildren
Italy’s far-right government has roots stretching back a century. Colin Wilson reviews Broder’s book.
Review | Union
Grace Linden reviews a recent production of Max Wilkinson’s play Union, directed by Wiebke Green, at the Arcola Theatre in Hackney. Is it useful to construct narratives from individual moral responsibility when discussing gentrification? We all need a home; we’re all (too) willing to take on the options offered by a system that exploits our […]
Leftist direct action thrillers: a new genre?
I’m a Virgo, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Black 47 and Codename Jenny
Review | Britain in Fragments
Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever bring a historic account of racism in Britain over the last century. Colin Wilson reviews Britain in Fragments.
Review | Making the Revolution Global
The history of black anticolonial radicals in Britain is central to the history of the left.
Review | Bodies Under Siege
Even traditional mainstream conservative parties are linked to proponents of reactionary ‘Great Replacement’ theories.
Review | The New Cold War
The new imperialist world order is characterised by increasing military tensions between the world’s major powers, but also by economic competition.
Review | Health Communism
How has capitalism wrecked health and care? Shiraz Hussain reviews Health Communism.
Review | Marx in the Anthropocene
The joys and pitfalls of degrowth communism – Gus Woody reviews an important new book on ecosocialism.
Glass Onion – foolishly transparent
Maurice Ramboz reviews Glass Onion, asking what the film’s titular metaphor tells us about capitalist ideology.
Review | Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
‘The mute compulsion of economic relations sets the seal on the domination of the capitalist over the worker.’
Review | Future on Fire: mass movements in the climate crisis
What movement do we need? Taisie Tsikas reviews David Camfield’s new book on climate tactics.