Review | Smoke and Ashes
Opium was central to British rule in India, British exploitation of China and the rise of capitalism in the US.
Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
How does the state shape who gets to mother, who suffers, and who survives?
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 | 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 | 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.
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.
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.
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 | Making the Revolution Global
The history of black anticolonial radicals in Britain is central to the history of the left.