Books
Desiree Reynolds looks at Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Why are We the Good Guys? Reclaiming your mind from the delusions of propaganda, by David Cromwell, reviewed by Richard Goulding
The Invention of the Land of Israel: from holy land to homeland, by Shlomo Sand, reviewed by Richard Kuper
Murdoch’s Politics: how one man’s thirst for wealth and power shapes our world, by David McKnight, reviewed by Benedetta Brevini
The March That Shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003, by Ian Sinclair, reviewed by Paul Anderson
Genes, Cells and Brains: the Promethean promises of the new biology, by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, reviewed by Alice Bell
Taking on the Empire: How We Saved the Hackney Empire for Popular Theatre by Roland Muldoon, reviewed by Jane Shallice
Soldier Box by Joe Glenton, reviewed by Josh Watts
Liam Sheehan reviews You Can't Evict an Idea, by Tim Gee
Mel Evans takes a look back at The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 50 years on
Borderline Justice: the fight for refugee and migrant rights, by Frances Webber, reviewed by Matt Carr
From the Ruins of Empire: the revolt against the west and the remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra, reviewed by Jonathan Steele
Gross Domestic Problem: the politics behind the world’s most powerful number, by Lorenzo Fioramonti, reviewed by Marco Berlinguer
New South Asian Feminisms: paradoxes and possibilities by Srila Roy (ed), reviewed by Adele Webb
Haiti’s New Dictatorship by Justin Podur, reviewed by James O’Nions
Raphael Schlembach reviews Against the Nation: Anti-National Politics in Germany, by Robert Ogman
As Beyond the Fragments by Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright is set to be republished, Jane Wills looks at its significance
Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture, by Ian Cobain, reviewed by Frances Webber
Catastrophism, by Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen and James Davis, reviewed by Nic Beuret
Beyond Walls and Cages: prisons, borders and global crisis, eds Jenna M Loyd, Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge, reviewed by Lioba Hirsch
John McDonnell MP reviews The Question of Strategy - Socialist Register 2013
Michael Calderbank speaks to Tony Crowley, author of Scouse: A Social and Cultural History
Nicholas Beuret looks at E P Thompson's classic The Making of the English Working Class
Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver, reviewed by Kitty Webster
Discordia: Six nights in crisis Athens, by Laurie Penny and Molly Crabapple, reviewed by Mel Evans
Scattered Sand: the story of China’s rural migrants, by Hsiao-Hung Pai, reviewed by Greg Fay
London’s Overthrow by China Miéville, reviewed by Frank Carney
Everyday Revolutions: horizontalism and autonomy in Argentina, by Marina A Sitrin, reviewed by Isabelle Koksal
Philosophy Football's Mark Perryman introduces his best left-wing books of 2012 for a hopeful materialist's seasonal gift list
The Making of Global Capitalism: the political economy of American empire, by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, reviewed by Patrick Bond
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel, reviewed by Mel Evans
Edward Webster looks at Working for Ford, by Huw Beynon (1974)
Untouchables: dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard, by Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn, reviewed by Kevin Blowe
Wrestling in the Daylight: a rabbi’s path to Palestinian solidarity, by Brant Rosen, reviewed by Richard Kuper
Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman reveals the football books any fan would welcome as an addition to their bookshelf this Christmas
Revolution at Point Zero by Silvia Federici and The Problem with Work by Kathi Weeks, reviewed by Nicholas Beuret
The Oil Road, by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello, reviewed by Andy Rowell
Mads Ryle looks at the continuing relevance of Mary Shelley's classic to debates about science, technology and nature today
Knowing Too Much: why the American Jewish romance with Israel is coming to an end, by Norman Finkelstein, reviewed by Richard Kuper
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation, by Sarah Irving, reviewed by Hilary Aked
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, eds Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell, reviewed by Justin Jacoby Smith
Socialism with a Northern Accent, by Paul Salveson. reviewed by Michael Calderbank
Why The Olympics Aren’t Good For Us, And How They Can Be, by Mark Perryman, reviewed by Kevin Blowe
Nick Caistor takes another look at Domitila Barrios de Chungara's story of life in Bolivia's mining villages
Marine Ices, by Tony Garnett, reviewed by Sheila Rowbotham
To Cook a Continent: destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa, by Nnimmo Bassey, reviewed by Tim Gee
The Only House Left Standing: the Middle East journals of Tom Hurndall, reviewed by Ewa Jasiewicz
Rebel Cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution, by David Harvey, reviewed by Andre Pusey
Bernard Regan reviews Nur Masalha’s account of Palestinian history and the significance of the Nakba in the Israel-Palestine conflict
By Richard Murphy, reviewed by Heather Blakey
Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy, by Ben White, reviewed by Richard Kuper
Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America: Confrontation or Co-option? by Gary Prevost et al (eds), reviewed by Federico Fuentes
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele, reviewed by Gabriel Carlyle
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber, reviewed by Nick Dearden
Mel Evans looks at Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy, first published 1979
Rare Earth, by Paul Mason, reviewed by Amanda Sebestyen
Richard Pithouse on The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
Counterpower: Making Change Happen, by Tim Gee, reviewed by Ed Lewis
Don’t Take No for an Answer: The 2011 Referendum and the Future of Electoral Reform, by Lewis Baston and Ken Ritchie, reviewed by Callum Michaels
Revolutionary Communist at Work: A Political Biography of Bert Ramelson, by Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley, reviewed by Mary Davis
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, by Andrew Feinstein, reviewed by Chris Browne
The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy, by Stewart Lansley, reviewed by Christopher Hird
The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance, by Michael Bailey and Des Freedman (eds), reviewed by Hilary Aked
Richard Kuper reads two books which consider the grotesque realities of industrial meat production and the wilful 'forgetting' needed to accept them.
On the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Terry Eagleton looks at the contradictions of the man and his work
Newsnight’s Paul Mason, author of a new book on the revolts sweeping the world, speaks to Red Pepper
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller, reviewed by Matt Owen
No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way, reviewed by Martin Legassick
The White Van Papers by Roland Muldoon, reviewed by Jane Shallice
More Bad News from Israel, by Greg Philo and Mike Berry, reviewed by Miri Weingarten
Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott, reviewed by Jonathan Steele
From Dictatorship to Democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation, by Gene Sharp, reviewed by Alex Nunns
In this extract from his latest book, Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair looks at the toxicity of the soil under the Olympics
Leigh Philips reviews Castro by Reinhard Kleist
Richard Seymour reviews The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin
Jennie O’Hara reviews Meat Market: Female Flesh under Capitalism, by Laurie Penny
Emma Hughes looks at Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988)
Antonio David Cattani reviews Ours to Master and to Own by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (eds)
Peter McMylor considers Alasdair MacIntyre's classic After Virtue: a study in moral theory, first published in 1981
Michael Calderbank reviews Magical Marxism: subversive politics and the Imagination, by Andy Merrifield
Jan Goodey reviews Seedbombs: going wild with flowers, by Josie Jeffery
Sami Ramadani reviews Fuel on the Fire: oil and politics in occupied Iraq, by Greg Muttitt
Ashok Kumar reviews Fight Back! A reader on the winter of protest, ed. Dan Hancox
Kevin Blowe reviews Chavs: the demonisation of the working class, by Owen Jones
Alex Nunns reviews 33 Revolutions Per Minute: a history of protest songs by Dorian Lynskey
Michael Calderbank reviews Why Marx was Right by Terry Eagleton
Leigh Phillips reviews Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson
Isabel Parrott revisits Colin Ward's classic The Child in the City
Lorna Stephenson reviews The Devil’s Milk: a social history of rubber by John Tully
Christine Haigh reviews The Fair Trade Revolution by John Bowes (ed)
James O'Nions reviews Celebrate People’s History: the poster book of resistance and revolution
Tim Hunt reviews An Open Web
Ross Eventon reviews A Poetics of Resistance: the revolutionary public relations of the Zapatista insurgency
David Broder reviews From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia
Richard Seymour reviews Eric Hobsbawm's latest book, and a new biography of this influential historian
Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
Peter Hudis, editor of the newly published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, speaks to Red Pepper
Dancing with Dynamite: Social movements and states in Latin America, by Benjamin Dangl (AK Press), reviewed by Mike Geddes
Whose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards A Greener, Fairer, Richer World, by Susan George (Polity Press), reviewed by Sylvie Wynn
The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe Thrower of Baghdad, edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim, reviewed by Jennie Bailey
Jilted Generation, by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik (Icon Books), reviewed by Adam Ramsay
Beating the Fascists: The untold story of Anti-Fascist Action, by Sean Birchall (Freedom Press), reviewed by Ben Aylott
The Great Transformation, by Karl Polanyi, reviewed by Tom Malleson
Leigh Phillips traces the emergence of comic-book journalism
Meat: a benign extravagance, by Simon Fairlie (Permanent Publications), reviewed by Christine Haigh
Isabel Parrot assesses the continuing relevance of In and Against the State
What Would it Mean to Win? by Turbulence Collective (PM Press), reviewed by James O’Nions
The Rise of the Green Left, by Derek Wall (Pluto Press), reviewed by Peter McColl
The Language of Silence, by Merilyn Moos (Cressida Press/Writersworld), reviewed by Amanda Sebestyen
Pornland: How porn has hijacked our sexuality, by Gail Dines (Beacon Press), reviewed by Jennie O’Hara
Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna (Faber and Faber), reviewed by James O'Nions
Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege: the new military urbanism (Verso), reviewed by Matthew Carr
Alain Badiou's The Communist Hypothesis (Verso), reviewed by Bertie Russell
Kolya Abramsky's Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution (AK Press), reviewed by Kevin Blowe
Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects (Hamish Hamilton), reviewed by Nick Dearden
Alastair Hemmens celebrates a book that had a major influence on 'les événements' of 1968
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso), reviewed by Andrea D'Cruz
Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine by William Parry (Pluto), reviewed by Mike Marqusee
Speaking Truth to Power by Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (Fahamu Books & Pambazuka Press), reviewed by Fatima Mujtaba
More Work! Less Pay! Rebellion and Repression in Italy 1972-77 by
Phil Edwards (Manchester University Press), reviewed by Paul Anderson
Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam by Mark Curtis (Serpent's Tail), reviewed by Jonathan Steele
Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work The Second Sex laid the foundations for the second wave of feminism and is essential reading for the feminist resurgence today, writes Rosie Germain
The Black Jacobins by CLR James (Penguin, new edition 2001), reviewed by Selma James
Gaza: Beneath the Bombs by Sharyn Lock with Sarah Irving (Pluto Press), reviewed by Andrea D'Cruz
The Protestor's Handbook by Bibi van der Zee (Guardian Books), reviewed by Tom Walker
Zapatistas: rebellion from the grassroots to the global by Alex Khasnabish (Zed Books), reviewed by Duncan Smith
Disgusting Bliss: the brass eye of Chris Morris by Lucian Randall (Simon and Schuster), reviewed by Kevin Blowe
The Enigma of Capital and the crises of Capitalism by David Harvey (Profile Books), reviewed by Alexander Gallas
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 […]
Violence by Slavoj Zizek (London, Profile Books 2009), reviewed by Clare Woodford
Lyn Marven considers Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller's compelling fictional exploration of state oppression
Nathaniel Mehr reviews Newspeak in the 21st Century by David Edwards and David Cromwell (Pluto Press, 2009)
Public cost and private benefit Global Auction of Public Assets Dexter Whitfield Spokesman, £18 Dexter Whitfield has been one of the most well-informed and effective critics of the whole programme of privatisation of Britain’s public services, begun by Margaret Thatcher and continued by New Labour. He is the director of the European Services Strategy Unit, […]
Liz Davies reviews Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield QC
(Bloomsbury, 2009)
Maddy Power reviews (People First Economics) by David Ransom and Vanessa Baird (eds) New Internationalist, 2009
James O'Nions meets two members of the Italian novel-writing collective Wu Ming as they publish Manituana, their 'story from the wrong side of history'
The Ecological Revolution by John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review Press, 2009), reviewed by Derek Wall
Instead of GM crops and a new 'green revolution for Africa', the answer to the food crisis and climate change lies in smaller-scale, local 'agroecology'. Reviews by James O'Nions
Mike Marqusee reviews Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati Roy
Liberal and conservative Europe alike are guilty of a new 'xeno-racism' against Muslims, according to veteran anti-racism campaigner Liz Fekete. Review by Matt Carr
Ireland's Hidden Diaspora by Ann Rossiter (Irish Abortion Solidarity Campaign), reviewed by Laurie Penny
Nathaniel Mehr reviews Judith Butler's Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
Helen Yaffe explores impact of Che Guevara as an economist and politician
Comrade or Brother? A History of the British Labour Movement by Mary Davis (Pluto Press, second edition 2009, reviewed by Nathaniel Mehr
Nathaniel Mehr reviews (Feminism and War) and writes that it is essential reading for anyone who is remotely convinced by the feminist pretensions of the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
Mike Marqusee talks to 'Red Riding' quartet author David Peace about 'GB84', his dark novel on the 1984 miners' strike
Matthew Beaumont welcomes Sheila Rowbotham's biography of Edward Carpenter
Extracts of What's Going On by Mark Steel (Simon and Schuster)
John Stuart Mill: Victorian firebrand by Richard Reeves (Atlantic Books), reviewed by Anthony Arblaster
Laurie Penny interviews Rebecca Schoenkopf about politics, life, feminism and getting 'finger-fucked' by Hillary Clinton
Mat Little interviews psychologist and writer Oliver James about his book, The Selfish Capitalist
Hollow Land by Eyal Weizman, reviewed by Michael Kustow
Hostility towards migrants is on the increase. David Renton reviews a new book by Arun Kundani which puts contemporary racism in perspective
The so-called War on Terror has created a global bonanza for the world of commercial military suppliers, writes Solomon Hughes in this exclusive extract from his new book War on Terror, Inc
In this extract from his book, If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, Mike Marqusee says that no one should be deterred from criticising the Israel lobby by charges of anti-semitism
Soundbite science and self-help manuals would have you believe that men and women can't communicate. Deborah Cameron's new book shows that the real issues are to do with power, writes Romy Clark
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt (Allen Lane 2007), reviewed by Richard Kuper
Sports books fill the bestseller lists every Christmas. Anne Coddington and Mark Perryman examine the rise and rise of the new sports writing
Comedian Mark Thomas on his top books
The triumph of the free market after the end of the Cold War doesn't mean a free market in ideas. Tariq Ali discusses the way literature can still be a crime against the state
