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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
Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 421pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9781786634412 - Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch, and Alan Zuege (eds)
Class, Party and Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 300pp. $24 pb
ISBN 9781608469192 - Tariq Ali
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 384pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781786631114 - 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
Happiness
Translated by A. J Bartlett and Justin Clemens, Bloomsbury, London, 2017. 136pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781474275538 - Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
The Second Coming
Polity, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2015. 140pp. £9.99 / $12.95 pb
ISBN 9781509534845 - 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 - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, and Chris O'Kane (eds)
The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory
SAGE Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2018. 3 volumes, 1800pp. £360 hb
ISBN 978-1-4739-5334-5 - Auguste Blanqui
The Blanqui Reader: Political Writings, 1830-1880
Edited by Peter Hallward and Philippe Le Goff, Verso, London and Brooklyn, NY, 2018. 348pp. £70 hb
ISBN 9781786635013 - Ashley J Bohrer
Marxism and Intersectionality. Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism
Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018. 320pp. €39,99 pb
ISBN 978-3837641608 - Douglas Burnham and Peter Lamb
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 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - Gregory Claeys
Marx and Marxism
Pelican, London, 2018. 528pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9780141983486 - 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 - Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp
Otto Bauer: Thinker and Politician.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2017. 440pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468171 - Ashley Dawson
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
Verso, London and New York, 2017. 378pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781784780395 - Guy Debord
Stratégie
Éditions L'Echappée, Montreuil, 2018. 528pp. € 24,00 pb
ISBN 9782373090499 - Bernard D'Mello
India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 384pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583677063 - Richard J Evans
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2019. 800pp. £35 hb
ISBN 9781408707418 - 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 - John Bellamy Foster
Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 144pp. $11 pb
ISBN 9781583676806 - Joshua Benjamin Freeman
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2018. 427pp. £22 hb
ISBN 9780393246315 - 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 - Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
Capitalism in America: A History
Allen Lane, London, 2018. 496pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780241365908 - 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
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2017. 273pp. €115,00 / $133.00 hb
ISBN 9789004296978 - 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 - Martin Jay
Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory
The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI and London, 2017. 245pp. £19.50 pb
ISBN 9780299306540 - 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 - 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 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - Andrew Brower Latz
The Social Philosphy of Gillian Rose
Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 2018. 232pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781532618376 - 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 - Peter Marshall
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 544pp. $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633862 - James Lorand Matory
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make
Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2018. 392pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781478001058 - John McDonnell (ed.)
Economics for the Many
Verso, London, 2018. 227pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781788732239 - Tony McKenna
Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Profiles
John Hunt Publisher, Ridgefield, CT, 2018. 280pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781789040203 - 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 - Alan Nasser
Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 308pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9780745337937 - Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart
Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Authoritarian-Populism
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2018. 300pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781108444422 - Eric Oberle
Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity
Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2018. 332pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781503606067 - 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 - Frederick Harry Pitts
Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017. 279pp. £89.99 hb
ISBN 9783319626321 - William L Remley
Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350048249 - Emmanuel Renault and Richard A. Lynch
The Experience of Injustice: An Essay on the Theory of Recognition
Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. 304pp. £50 hb
ISBN 9780231177061 - Ben Reynolds
The Coming Revolution: Capitalism in the 21st Century
Zero books, Winchester, 2018. 328pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781785357091 - Russell Rockwell
Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States
palgrave macmillan, London, 2018. £59.99 hb
ISBN 9783319756103 - Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Verso, Brooklyn, New edn, 2018. 312pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781788731188 - Michael Rosen
The Author. Towards a Marxist Approach to Authorship
Michael Rosen, 2018. 404pp. £13.99 pb
ISBN 9781999923839 - Pavlos Roufos
Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters.
Reaktion Books, London, 2018. 224pp. £14.95 hb
ISBN 9781780239859 - 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 - Lynne Segal
Radical Happiness: The Search for Moments of Shared Joy
Verso Books, London, 2017. 352pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781786631541 - Peter Singer
Marx: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, New York and London, 2nd edn, 2018. 152pp. £7.99 pb
ISBN 9780198821076 - 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 - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (ed.)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Haymarket, Chicago, 2017. 200pp. $18 pb
ISBN 9781608468553 - 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 - Enzo Traverso and Régis Meyran
The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right
Verso, London and New York, 2019. 208pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781788730464 - 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 - Colin White
A History of the Global Economy: The Inevitable Accident
Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 2018. 512pp.
ISBN 9781788971973 - Jude Woodward
The Us Vs China: Asia's New Cold War?
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017. 304pp. £22.50 pb
ISBN 9781784993429 - Zhun Xu
From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 154pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781583676981 - 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 - James Young
Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 264pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781583676172 - Ren Zavaleta-mercado
The National-Popular in Bolivia
Translated by Anne Freeland, Seagull Books, London and Calcutta, 2018. 304pp. $35 hb
ISBN 9780857423580 - Slavoj Žižek
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2019. 70pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781509536115 - Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza
Reading Marx
Polity, Medford, MA, 2018. 170pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781509521418 - Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power
Profile Books, London, 2019. 691pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9781781256848
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