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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)
- 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 - Louis Althusser
History and Imperialism: Writings, 1963-1986
Translated by G. M. Goshgarian, Polity, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, USA, 2019. 190pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781509537235 - Samir Amin
Only People Make Their Own History: Writings on Capitalism, Imperialism, and Revolution
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 246pp. £16.55 pb
ISBN 9781583677698 - Attila Antal
Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orban Regime
Emerald, Bingley, 2019. 184pp. £40 pb
ISBN 9781838677541 - 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 - Nicholas Brown
Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2019. 232pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781478001591 - Pem Davidson Buck
The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 384pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583678329 - Michael Burawoy
Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2019. 240pp. $24.95 / £22.99 pb
ISBN 9781478006473 - 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 - W. Paul Cockshott
How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. $32 pb
ISBN 9781583677773 - Davina Cooper
Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2019. 288pp. £20.99 pb
ISBN 9781478004745 - 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 - Raju J Das
Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 694pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781608469291 - Bernard D'Mello
India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018. 384pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583677063 - Seth Donnelly
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 120pp. $21 pb
ISBN 9781583677650 - 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 - Spencer Ellsworth
The Great Faerie Strike
Broken Eye Books, 2020. 292pp. £15.95 pb
ISBN 9781940372396 - Jonathan Fardy
Althusser and Art
Zero Books, Ridgefield, CT, 2020. 80pp. £7.99 pb
ISBN 9781789043075 - 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 - Christian Fuchs
Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News
Routledge, New York and London, 2020. 326pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367357665 - 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 - Marcelo Hoffman
Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles.
SUNY Press, Albany, 2020. 204pp. $22.95 pb
ISBN 9781438472621 - Gerald Horne
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 456pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583677858 - George Hull (ed.)
Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics, and Comparative Philosophy
Routledge, London and New York, 2019. 321pp. £32.99 pb
ISBN 9781138344969 - Neetu Khanna
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Duke University Press, Durham, NC and London, 2020. 200pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781478008170 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - Christopher Kul-Want (ed.)
Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou: A Critical Reader
Columbia University Press, New York, 2019. 384pp. £30 pb
ISBN 9780231176033 - 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 - Leigh Claire La Berge
Wages against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2019. 280pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478004820 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - Phiippe Le Goff
Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment.
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2020. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350076792 - Kfir Cohen Lustig
Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary
Verso, London and Brooklyn, NY, First edition edn, 2019. 304pp. £25 pb
ISBN 9781788737579 - 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 - Tony McKenna
Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art
Zero Books, Ridgefield, CT, 2020. 272pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781789043570 - Christoph Menke
Critique of Rights
Polity, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 350pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9781509520398 - 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 - 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 - Robert Poole
Peterloo: The English Uprising
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. 480pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780198783466 - Eric Rahim
A Promethean Vision. The Formation of Karl Marx's Worldview
Praxis Press, Glasgow, 2020. 144pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781899155088 - William L Remley
Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350048249 - Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
No Home for You Here: A Memoir of Class and Culture
Reaktion Books, London, 2020. 184pp. £14.95 hb
ISBN 9781789142006 - 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 - Pavlos Roufos
A Happy Future Is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters
Reaktion Books, London, 2018. 218pp. £14.95 hb
ISBN 9781780239859 - John Sayles
Yellow Earth
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 416pp. $28 hb
ISBN 9781642590210 - 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 - Intan Suwandi
Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 215pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781583677810 - 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 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 - Enzo Traverso
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate
Haymarket, Chicago, 2019. 264pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781642590548 - 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 - D N Wang
Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism
Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL, 2018. 191pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781612299013 - Peter Weiss
The Aesthetics of Resistance. Volume Ii
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 336pp. $27.95 pb
ISBN 9781478007562 - 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 - Fred A Wilcox
Shamrocks and Oil Slicks: A People's Uprising against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 168pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583678466 - 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
A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions
Polity, Cambridge and Medford, MA, 2020. 290pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781509541188
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