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Review | Crude Capitalism

What has oil got to do with the history of the global capitalist economy? A review of Adam Hanieh’s book on the topic.

Review | Forest of Noise

A review of a new collection of poetry by Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha.

Review | One hundred years of solitude

A review of the new film version of Gabriel García Márquez’s wonderful novel ‘One hundred years of solitude’, first published in 1967

Patrice Lumumba signs the document granting independence to the Congo next to Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens

Review | Soundtrack to a coup d’etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat uses jazz and contemporary voices to expose how Belgium and the US undermined the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo

Review | Burnout

Samuel Kelly reviews Hannah Proctor’s Burnout, a timely exploration of the emotional toll of political struggle, offering ways to navigate despair and sustain hope in our movements. 

2024 cultural highlights: music

rs21 members review their music highlights of the year.

2024 cultural highlights

rs21 members review their cultural highlights of the year.

Review | Mixing Pop and Politics

A review of Mixing Pop and Politics by Toby Manning, a Marxist history of popular music that analyses the relationship between society’s economic base and its cultural superstructure.

Review | Coming to terms with China

Weighing up two new books on contemporary China.

Review | Become Ungovernable

HLT Quan’s manifesto for ungovernability contributes to strategies for resisting state violence.

Review | Overshoot: How the world surrendered to climate breakdown

Malm and Carton’s revolutionary call to climate action

Review | She Who Struggles

Exploring the role of women in twentieth-century revolutionary and national-liberation movements.

Review | Raising the Red Flag

The lead up to the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1921, and lessons for today

Ghost Dance Against the Silence of Money

A review of Dead Cities & Other Tales by Mike Davis

Review | Reasons to Rebel

A review of Sheila Rowbotham’s latest book which recounts her experiences as a socialist feminist activist in the 1980s.

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.

Debate on settler colonialism: Part 4

Steve Leigh contributes with a review of Englert’s book.

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.

Review | The Lenin Scenario

A review of Tariq Ali’s screenplay.

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.

Lewis's book with an image of Kautsky and the Erfurt Program

Review | Ben Lewis, ‘Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism’

Is it time to re-evaluate renegade Kautsky? Andreas Chari reviews a new collection.

cover of the book, and a man looking at WW1 death technology

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.