Review | Backstage of the care economy
This new book provides an in depth of the working of the global care economy
Review | Overreach: how China derailed its peaceful rise
Overreach is written from within the US establishment and provides insight into why the US sees China as a mortal enemy
Review | The Starmer symptom
Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis
Review | The Arcana of Reproduction
Kika Hendry reviews the new translation of Leopoldina Fortunati’s The Arcana of Reproduction.
Review | Lifeline to Freedom
Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.
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 | 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’.