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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 - Ian Angus
A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 160pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583676448 - Stephen Armstrong
The New Poverty
Verso, London and New York, 2017. 242pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781786634658 - Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann
For a Politics of the Common Good
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2019. 130pp. $12.95 pb
ISBN 9781509535057 - Marie Louise Berneri
Journey through Utopia: A Critical Assessment of Imagined Worlds in Western Literature
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2019. 464pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781629636467 - David Berry, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, and Alex Prichard (eds)
Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 368pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633909 - Nicholas Brown
Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2019. 232pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781478001591 - Douglas Burnham and Peter Lamb
The First Marx: A Philosophical Introduction
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781350029613 - 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 - C P Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh (eds)
Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik
Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2017. 300pp. $40.00 / £30.00 pb
ISBN 9788193401514 - 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 - Bernard D'Mello
India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 384pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583677063 - 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 - Zillah R Eisenstein
Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 160pp. $20 hb
ISBN 9781583677629 - 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 - Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill (eds)
British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940: Futility and Anarchy
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2018. 384pp. £84.99 hb
ISBN 9781107145535 - 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 - Diego Fusaro
The Place of Possibility: Towards a New Philosophy of Praxis
Translated by Steven M Cenci, The Pertinent Press, Oxford, 2017. 242pp. £59 hb
ISBN 9781912142125 - Mike Gonzalez
In the Red Corner: The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2019. 248pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781608469154 - Richard S. Gruneau
Sport and Modernity
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA, 2017. 240pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781509501571 - Joss Hands
Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media
Pluto, London, 2019. 208pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335346 - 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 - Chris Henry
The Ethics of Political Resistance: Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019. 248pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781474447737 - 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 - Gerald Horne
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 456pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583677858 - Kate Kirkpatrick
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2019. 496pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9781350047174 - Anna Kornbluh
Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club
Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2019. 200pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781501347306 - Miroslav Krleža
Harbors Rich in Ships: The Selected Revolutionary Writings of Miroslav Krleza, Radical Luminary of Modern World Literature
Translated by Željko Cipriš, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 230pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583676486 - 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 - Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano
The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 237pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781583676943 - Helen Lackner
Yemen in Crisis Autocracy,Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
Saqi Books, London, 2017. 384pp. £25 hb
ISBN 978-0863561931 - Peter Lamb
Socialism
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2019. 148pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781509531615 - 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 - Peter Marshall
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 544pp. $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633862 - John McDonnell (ed.)
Economics for the Many
Verso, London, 2018. 227pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781788732239 - René Zavaleta Mercado
Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia
Translated by Anne Freeland, Seagull Books, London and Calcutta, 2018. 304pp. $35 hb
ISBN 9780857423580 - 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 - Stefan Müller-Doohm
Habermas: A Biography
Polity, Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA, 2016. 456pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780745689067 - 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 - Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne (eds)
Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018. 320pp. €130.00 / $150.00
ISBN 9789004319516 - Robert Ovetz
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921.
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2019. 606pp. $36 pb
ISBN 9781642590593 - 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 - Ben Reynolds
The Coming Revolution: Capitalism in the 21st Century
Zero books, Winchester, 2018. 328pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781785357091 - Michael Joseph Roberto
The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Genesis of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 463pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781583677315 - 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 - Michael Rosen
The Author. Towards a Marxist Approach to Authorship
Michael Rosen, 2018. 404pp. £13.99 pb
ISBN 9781999923839 - 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 - Michael E Tigar
Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 168pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583677421 - Eric Toussaint
The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 280pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781608463091 - Voline
The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 832pp. $32.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635774 - D N Wang
Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism
Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL, 2018. 191pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781612299013 - Robert X Ware
Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals: Retrieving Marx for the Future
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2019. 256pp. $84.99 hb
ISBN 9783319977164 - Mike Wayne
England's Discontents: Political Cultures and National Identities
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 304pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399331 - Richard Westra
Periodizing Capitalism and Capitalist Extinction
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2019. 270pp. £89.99 hb
ISBN 9783030143893 - 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 - Michael Yates
Can the Working Class Change the World?
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 218pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781583677100 - 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 - Okbazghi Yohannes
The Biofuels Deception: Going Hungry on the Green Carbon Diet
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 344pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781583677025 - Slavoj Žižek
Sex and the Failed Absolute
Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2019. 496pp. £22 hb
ISBN 9781350043787
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