Review | Red Flags
A new book distinguishes the liberation of October 1917 from state repression under Stalin and Mao.
Review | Enemy Feminisms
Sophie Lewis’ new book is a mini-encyclopaedia of TERFs, policewomen and girlbosses.
Review | Andor, Season 2
Rebellion against an empire complicit in genocide – in Star Wars, now a Disney brand. On the complexities of Andor.
Review | The Penguin Lessons
A review of Steve Coogan’s new film which is set in the context of 1970s Argentina under the repression of the military junta
Review | All In: a revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse
A review of ‘All In’ which argues for a revolutionary strategy as global temperatures continue to rise.
Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
How does the state shape who gets to mother, who suffers, and who survives?
Review | Mickey 17
Boon Jong-Ho’s new film Mickey 17 uses science fiction to shine a light on our world
Review | Monstrous Anger of the Guns
A new work unpacks the global arms industry and how to fight it.
Review | Hard Graft
Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.
Review | Disaster Nationalism
Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism can help us understand what’s happening as Trump’s second term accelerates the growth of the far right internationally.
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
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.
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 | 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.