Bertie Russell

Time to be communists again September 2010
Alain Badiou's The Communist Hypothesis (Verso), reviewed by Bertie Russell

Dealing with the devil September 2010
Bertie Russell is sceptical as to whether states can ever be used to move beyond capitalism

A brick of a book May 2010
Commonwealth by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Scathingly described by the Wall Street Journal as ‘a witches’ brew of contemporary radicalism’, Hardt and Negri’s most recent book Commonwealth is a timely contribution to our understanding of contemporary capitalist relations and the potential revolutionary conditions they create. Michael Hardt is a professor of literature at Duke [...]