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Reviews should adhere to the following instructions about content, layout and style:
Some recent books for review
- Onur Acaroglu
Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition: A Theory of Temporal Dislocation
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 232pp. £152 hb
ISBN 9789004436664 - 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 - Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro, and Robert Jackson (eds)
Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 522pp. £27.37 pb
ISBN 9781642593433 - Jairus Banaji
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2020. 200pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781642591323 - Lelio Basso
A Heterodox Marxist and His Century: Lelio Basso: Selected Writings
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 204pp. $163 hb
ISBN 9789004321687 - Peter Beilharz
Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 440pp. $217 hb
ISBN 9789004443976 - Aaron Benanav
Automation and the Future of Work
Verso, London and New York, 2020. 146pp. £12.99 hb
ISBN 9781839761294 - Jeremy Brecher
Strike!
PM Press, Oakland,CA, 50th anniversary edn, 2020. 640pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781629638003 - Sonja Buckel
Subjectivation and Cohesion: Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law
Koninklijke BrillNV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021. 1pp.
ISBN 978-90-04-43201-7 - Tom Bunyard
Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 430pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460793 - Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman (eds)
The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2019. 680pp. £100 hb
ISBN 9781474278713 - Hal Draper
Berkeley: The Student Revolt
Haymarket books, Chicago, 2020. 280pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781642591255 - Jean-Numa Ducange and Elisa Marcobelli (eds)
Selected Writings of Jean Jaures: On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism.
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2021. 188pp. £79.99 hb
ISBN 9783030719586 - Christian Fuchs
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory
University of Westminster Press, London, 2020. 406pp. £28.99 pb / open access ebook
ISBN 9781912656714 - Christian Fuchs
Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory: Media, Communication and Society, Volume One
Routledge, New York, 2021. 310pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367697129 - Shaibal Gupta, Marcello Musto, and Babak Amini (eds)
Karl Marx's Life, Ideas, and Influences: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary
Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York, 2019. 378pp. $119.99 hb
ISBN 9783030248147 - Tom Hazeldine
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
Verso Books, Brooklyn, 2020. 304pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9781786634061 - Mike Healy
Marx and Digital Machines Alienation, Technology, Capitalism
University of Westminster Press, London, 2020. 172pp. £19.99 pb / open access
ISBN 9781912656790 - Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
A People's History of Detroit
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 320pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009351 - Peter Jones
The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009: A New Approach to Applying Marx's Value Theory and Its Implications for Socialist Strategy
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2019. $157 hb
ISBN 9789004398320 - Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper
Great Anarchists
Dog Section Press, London, 2020. 128pp. £6 pb
ISBN 9781916036567 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - Walter Omar Kohan
Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography
2021. 296pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781350195981 - Richard Lachmann
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Verso, London and New York, 2020. 477pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9781788734073 - Ernest Mandel
Introduction to Marxist Theory.
Resistance Books, London, 2020. 306pp. £15 pb
ISBN 9780902869653 - Karl Marx
Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation
Ed. Marcello Musto, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020. 184pp. £65 hb
ISBN 9783030607807 - Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2019. 258pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781107195998 - Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (eds)
Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
PM Press, Oakland, 2020. 368pp. $27.95 pb
ISBN 9781629637822 - Tony McKenna
The War against Marxism: Reification and Revolution
Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2021. 280pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781350201415 - David Muhlmann
Capitalisme Et Colonisation Mentale
PUF, Paris, 2021. 123pp. 16,00 € pb
ISBN 9782130826903 - Phil Mullan
Beyond Confrontation: Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents
Emerald, 2020. 276pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781839825637 - Christopher Norris
Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems
Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781643171593 - Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes
Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Organization
Verso Books, Brooklyn, 2021. 320pp. £19,99 pb
ISBN 9781788733830 - Steve Paxton
Unlearning Marx: Why the Soviet Failure Was a Triumph for Marx
Zero Books, Ridgefield, CT, 2020. 184pp.
ISBN 9781789045413 - Lothar Peter
Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 183pp. $145 hb
ISBN 9789004349414 - Marco Piasentier
On Biopolitics: An Inquiry into Nature and Language
Routledge, New York, First Edition edn, 2020. 136pp. £96 hb
ISBN 9781138478862 - Robert Poole
Peterloo: The English Uprising
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. 480pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780198783466 - Michael Roberts
Engels 200 - His Contribution to Political Economy
lulu, 2020. 172pp. £8.95 pb
ISBN 9781716471339 - Axel Roch and Magda Van Suntum (eds)
Christophe Kotanyi. Cent Dérives - a Hundred Drifts - Hundert Driften
gegenstalt, Berlin, 2020. 544pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9783981315684 - Eric-John Russell
Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything Is as It Seems
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2021. 272pp. $115 hb
ISBN 9781350157637 - Alessandro Russo
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 360pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009528 - John Sayles
Yellow Earth
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 416pp. $28 hb
ISBN 9781642590210 - Fabian Scheidler
The End of the Megamachine
Zero Books, Winchester, 2020. 272pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781789042719 - Paula L. Schwartz
Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris
Oxford University Press, New York, 2020. 256pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780190681548 - Derek Wall
Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis.
Merlin Press, London, 2020. 222pp. £10 pb
ISBN 9780850367645 - James D White
Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
Bloomsbury, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781474224062 - Paul Zarembka
Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. $169 hb
ISBN 9789004432697 - Jacob A. Zumoff
The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2021. 248pp. $32.95 pb
ISBN 9781978809895
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