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Reviews should adhere to the following instructions about content, layout and style:
Some recent books for review
- Special Issue: The Return of Economic Planning, South Atlantic Quarterly, 119:1 (2020)
- Theodor W Adorno
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
Translated by Wieland Hoban, Polity, Cambridge , UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 100pp. $12.95 pb
ISBN 9781509541454 - 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 - Attila Antal
Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orban Regime
Emerald, Bingley, 2019. 184pp. £40 pb
ISBN 9781838677541 - Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro, and Robert Jackson (eds)
Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 522pp. €170.00 / $204.00 hb
ISBN 9789004337039 - Alain Badiou
The Pornographic Age
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020. 136pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781350014794 - Ashley J. Bohrer
Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2019. 279pp. €29.99 hb
ISBN 9783837641608 - Tom Bunyard
Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 430pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460793 - 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 - Fidel Castro, José Bell Lara, Tania Caram, and Delia Luisa López
Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution: Understanding the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961)
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 329pp. £198 hb
ISBN 9789004415713 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - 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 - Raju J Das
Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 694pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781608469291 - Hal Draper
Berkeley: The Student Revolt
Haymarket books, Chicago, 2020. 280pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781642591255 - 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 - 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 - Christian Fuchs
Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies
Routledge, New York, 2019. 296pp. £22.99 pb
ISBN 9780367418779 - James Furner
Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 522pp. $36 pb
ISBN 9781642590463 - Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
Contradiction Set Free
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020. 168pp. £91 hb
ISBN 9781350079816 - 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 - Chris Hedges
America: The Farewell Tour
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2018. 388pp. £27 hb
ISBN 9781501152672 - Henry Heller
The French Revolution and Historical Materialism: Selected Essays
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 268pp. $28 / £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608469956 - Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
A People's History of Detroit
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 320pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009351 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - 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 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - 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 - Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2019. 258pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781107195998 - David McNally
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, and the State
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 320pp. $20 pb
ISBN 9781642591330 - 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 - 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 - Christooher Norris
Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems.
Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781643171593 - Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn
Verso Books, London and New York, 2020. 320pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781788738347 - Paul Paolucci
Marx's Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 313pp. $192 hb
ISBN 9789004413856 - Lothar Peter
Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 183pp. $145 hb
ISBN 9789004349414 - Robert Poole
Peterloo: The English Uprising
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. 480pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780198783466 - 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 - John Sayles
Yellow Earth
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 416pp. $28 hb
ISBN 9781642590210 - 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 - 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 - Evan Smith
British Communism and the Politics of Race
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 275pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608469987 - Steven G Snow
Bourgeois Ideology and Education: Subversion through Pedagogy
Routledge, London, 2018. 138pp. £105 hb
ISBN 9781138721111 - Benjanun Sriduangkaew and Joshua Moufawad-Paul
Methods Devour Themselves: A Conversation
Zero Books, Alresford, Hants, 2018. 160pp. £10.99 pb
ISBN 9781785358265 - Dan Swain
None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation
Brill, Boston, 2019. $110 hb
ISBN 9789004410091 - 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 - Michael Thompson (ed.)
Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social Ontology
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 459pp. $192 hb
ISBN 9789004357600 - Enzo Traverso
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate
Haymarket, Chicago, 2019. 264pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781642590548 - Marcelo Vieta
Workers' Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 644pp. €185.00 / $223.00 hb
ISBN 9789004268968 - Voline
The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 832pp. $32.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635774 - Victor Wallis
Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories
Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 2020. 252pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-35065-9 - 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 - James D White
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov.
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2019. 494pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781642590487
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