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- Book(s) that you would like to review, with alternatives if possible. These may be drawn from the list of recent books for review (below), but suggestions are also welcome of other recent books that you would like to review or that we should review (include publication details if possible). We do not normally review books that are more than two years old.
Guidelines for reviewers
Reviews should adhere to the following instructions about content, layout and style:
Some recent books for review
- Mitchell Abidor (ed.)
The Permanent Guillotine: Writings of the Sans-Culottes
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2017. 160pp. $14.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633886 - Bashir Abu-Manneh (ed.)
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the 21st Century
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2018. 232pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781108453219 - Michel Aglietta
The Reform of Europe: A Political Guide to the Future
Verso Books, London and New York, 2019. 280pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781786632548 - Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch, and Alan Zuege (eds)
Class, Party and Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 300pp. $24 pb
ISBN 9781608469192 - ATTILA ANTAL
Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orbn Regime.
EMERALD, Bingley, 2019. 184pp. £40 pb
ISBN 9781838677541 - Stephen Armstrong
The New Poverty
Verso, London and New York, 2017. 242pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781786634658 - Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts (eds)
World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx's Law of Profitability
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 350pp. $22.95 pb
ISBN 9781608461813 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - James Connolly
James Connolly Reader
Edited by Shaun Harkin, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 400pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781608466467 - Mark Cowling
Norman Geras's Political Thought from Marxism to Human Rights: Controversy and Analysis
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2018. 220pp. £119.99 hb
ISBN 9783319740478 - Asa K Cusack
Venezuela, Alba, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Springer, New York, 2018. 218pp. $84.99 hb
ISBN 9781349950027 - Glyn Daly
Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2019. 224pp. $34.95 pb
ISBN 9780810139350 - Jacques Derrida
Theory and Practice
Translated by David Wills, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019. 125pp. $35 hb
ISBN 9780226572345 - Raya Dunayevskaya
Marx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day: Selected Writings
Edited by Franklin Dmitryev, Brill, Boston, 2018. $174 hb
ISBN 9789004323322 - Liz Fekete
Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 214pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781784787226 - Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly (eds)
Austerity and Working-Class Resistance: Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times
Rowman & Littlefield International, London and New York, 2018. 232pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781786603531 - James Furner
Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018. 522pp. €180.00 / $217.00 hb
ISBN 9789004384804 - Mike Gonzalez
In the Red Corner: The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2019. 248pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781608469154 - Simon Hannah
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 288pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745337470 - Nigel Harris
Selected Essays of Nigel Harris: From National Liberation to Globalisation
Ahmed Shawki, Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 522pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781608460106 - Henry Heller
The French Revolution and Historical Materialism: Selected Essays
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 268pp. $28 / £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608469956 - Jan Hoff
Marx Worldwide on the Development of the International Discourse on Marx since 1965
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 400pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468324 - John Holloway
We Are the Crisis of Capital: A John Holloway Reader
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2017. 320pp. $22.95 pb
ISBN 9781629632254 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - Anna Kornbluh
Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club
Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2019. 200pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781501347306 - Samezō Kuruma
Marx's Theory of the Genesis of Money: How, Why, and through What Is a Commodity Money?
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 204pp. $28 / £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608460588 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - Paul Le Blanc
October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
Haymarket, Chicago, 2017. 504pp. $27.95 pb
ISBN 9781608468485 - Marc James Leger
Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2019. 256pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9781526134899 - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and Slavoj Žižek
The Day after the Revolution
Verso, London, 2018. 272pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781786636300 - Iain Mackenzie
Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou
Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018. 146pp. €29.99 pb
ISBN 9783837639070 - John McDonnell (ed.)
Economics for the Many
Verso, London, 2018. 227pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781788732239 - Lola Miesseroff
Voyage En Outre-Gauche: Paroles De Francs-Tireurs Des Années 68
Libertalia, Paris, 2018. 280pp. €10,00 pb
ISBN 9782377290246 - Jeremiah Morelock (ed.)
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism
University of Westminster Press, London, 2018. 298pp. £22.99 pb
ISBN 9781912656219 - David Morgan (ed.)
The Labour Party in Historical Perspective
Socialist History Society, London, 2018. 110pp. £6 pb
ISBN 9780993010477 - Brian Morris
Kropotkin: The Politics of Community
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 320pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635057 - Marcello Musto (ed.)
Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism
Routledge, New York, 2019. 312pp. $131.67
ISBN 9780367350086 - Karma Nabulsi
Invisible History: Prevent and the Persistance of Empire.
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 144pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781786637918 - Oliver Nachtwey
Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 256pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781786636348 - Christopher Norris
The Trouble with Monsters: Poems for Dark Times
Culture Matters, Newcastle, 2018. 117pp.
ISBN 9781912710126 - Frederick Harry Pitts
Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017. 279pp. £89.99 hb
ISBN 9783319626321 - Robert Poole
Peterloo: The English Uprising
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. 480pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780198783466 - George A. Reisch
The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas Kuhn, James Bryant Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds"
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2019. 502pp. $95 hb
ISBN 9781438473673 - William L Remley
Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350048249 - Norman Roessler and Anthony Squiers (eds)
Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance
Brill Rodopi, Leiden and Boston, 2019. 206pp. €94.00 hb
ISBN 9789004404434 - Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch
Was Wollen Wir, Wenn Wir Arbeiten? Honneth, Hegel Und Die Grundlagen Der Kritik Des Neoliberalismus
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2017. 88pp. € 19,90
ISBN 9783428144822 - Thomas Sekine
Dialectic of Capital a Study of the Inner Logic of Capitalism, 2 Vols
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2019. $419 hb
ISBN 9789004384828 - Helena Sheehan
Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 384pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781583677278 - Daphne Skillen
Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin.
Taylor & Francis, London, 2017. 364pp. £26.99 pb
ISBN 9781138743267 - Evan Smith
British Communism and the Politics of Race
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 275pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608469987 - Ted Stolze
Becoming Marxist: Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance
Brill, Boston, 2019. 409pp. £141.07 hb
ISBN 9789004280977 - Mike Taber (ed.)
Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist Internationals
Haymarket books, Chicago and London, 2019. 796pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781642590128 - Elinor Taylor
Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 224pp. $28 / £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608460465 - Göran Therborn
Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular and the Global
Verso, London and New York, 2017. 408pp. $35.00 / £20.00 hb
ISBN 9781784785444 - Voline
The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 832pp. $32.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635774 - Colin White
A History of the Global Economy: The Inevitable Accident
Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 2018. 512pp.
ISBN 9781788971973 - James D White
Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
Bloomsbury, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781474224062 - Kaveh Yazdani
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2017. 669pp. €205,00 / $246.00 hb
ISBN 9789004330788 - Slavoj Žižek
Sex and the Failed Absolute
Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2019. 496pp. £22 hb
ISBN 9781350043787
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