A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics
Bill Roberts reviews the new biography Paul Foot: A Life in Politics.
A review of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry
by Ben Rosenfield
Ben Rosenfield reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism.
Nuclear Devastation
A review of Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario
by David FriedmanDavid Friedman reviews Annie Jacobsen’s latest book, Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024).
A review of “Kneecap”, stage and screen
Visions of a united socialist Ireland
by Glenn AllenGlenn Allen reviews the film Kneecap (2024).
Complicit academia: Israel and the US
Review of Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel
by Keith RosenthalKeith Rosenthal reviews Towers of Ivory and Steel. Maya Wind’s new book details the active service that Israeli universities have always given to the project of settlement and the repression of Palestinian perspectives and resistance.
Degrowth and revolutionary socialism
A review of Kohei Saito’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
by Paul FleckensteinTempest’s Paul Fleckenstein reviews Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto and argues that an ecosocialist future depends on mass social and class struggle.
Bolshevism Mystified
by John Marot
In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.
Organize, yes, but how?
Review of If We Burn
by David CamfieldDavid Camfield reviews a new book by journalist Vincent Bevins surveying “mass protest explosions” around the world between 2010 and 2020.
A life of theory and action
Review of A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story
by Brian WardTempest’s Brian Ward reviews A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story by Leo Zeilig.
Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?
by John Marot
John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.