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- Book(s) that you would like to review, with alternatives if possible. These may be drawn from the list of recent books for review (below), but suggestions are also welcome of other recent books that you would like to review or that we should review (include publication details if possible). We do not normally review books that are more than two years old.
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Some recent books for review
- 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 - Mark Alizart
Cryptocommunism
Polity Press, Cambridge , UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 135pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781509538584 - Attila Antal
Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orban Regime
Emerald, Bingley, 2019. 184pp. £40 pb
ISBN 9781838677541 - Paul Blackledge
Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2019. 278pp. $95 hb
ISBN 9781438476872 - Jeremy Brecher
Strike!
PM Press, Oakland,CA, 50th anniversary edn, 2020. 640pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781629638003 - 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 - 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 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - Keti Chukhrov
Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism
e-flux, Minneapolis, MN, 2020. 336pp. $30 pb
ISBN 9781517909550 - 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 - 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 - Roberto M Dainotto and Fredric Jameson (eds)
Gramsci in the World
Duke University Press, Durham, 2020. 280pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478012146 - Raju J Das
Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 694pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781608469291 - Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman
The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2019. 680pp. £100 hb
ISBN 9781474278713 - 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 - 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 - Kieran Durkin and Joan Braune (eds)
Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future
Bloomsbury, New York and London, 2020. 248pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350087019 - 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 - Richard J Evans
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2019. 800pp. £35 hb
ISBN 9781408707418 - Alessandro Ferrara
Rousseau and Critical Theory
Brill, Leiden, 2017. 55pp. £64 pb
ISBN 9789004356375 - 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
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory
University of Westminster Press, London, 406pp. £28.99 pb / open access ebook
ISBN 9781912656714 - 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 - Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
Capitalism in America: A History
Allen Lane, London, 2018. 496pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780241365908 - 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 - Simon Hannah
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 288pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745337470 - Bernard E. Harcourt
Critique and Praxis: A Radical Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action
Columbia University Press, New York, 2020. 696pp. $40.00 / £34.00 hb
ISBN 9780231195720 - 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 - Gerald Horne
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 456pp. $27 pb
ISBN 9781583677858 - Gerald Horne
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9781583678725 - 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 - Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
A People's History of Detroit
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 320pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009351 - Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn, Patrick Anderson, and Johann Salazar (eds)
Lenin 150 (Samizdat)
KckAss Books, Hamburg, 2020. €15 pb
ISBN 9783000662126 - John E Kelly
Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain
Routledge, Abingdon, 2018. 296pp. £23.99 pb
ISBN 9781138943810 - Ruth Kinna
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Penguin Random House, London, 2019. 432pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9780241396551 - Ulrike Kistner and Philippe Van Haute (eds)
Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon.
WITS University Press, Witwaterstrand, 2020. 168pp. £20.50 pb
ISBN 9781776146239 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2019. 258pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781107195998 - Tony McKenna
Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art
Zero Books, Ridgefield, CT, 2020. 272pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781789043570 - 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 - Dana Mills
Rosa Luxemburg
Reaktion Books, London, 2020. 224pp. £11.99 pb
ISBN 9781789143270 - 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 - Daniel Mourenza
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2020. 258pp. € 99,00 hb
ISBN 9789462980174 - Phil Mullan
Beyond Confrontation: Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents
Emerald, 2020. 276pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781839825637 - Marcello Musto and Patrick Camiller
The Last Years of Karl Marx, 1881-1883: An Intellectual Biography
Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2020. 208pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781503612525 - 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 - Christopher Norris
Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems.
Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781643171593 - Leo Panitch and Gregory Albo (eds)
Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 320pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583678831 - 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 - Eric Rahim
A Promethean Vision. The Formation of Karl Marx's Worldview
Praxis Press, Glasgow, 2020. 144pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781899155088 - 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 - Shaun Richman
Tell the Bosses We're Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 256pp. $26 hb
ISBN 9781583678565 - 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 - Luke Russell
Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective
Oxford University Press, New York, 2020. 160pp. £10.99 hb
ISBN 9780198862079 - Ranabir Samaddar
Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2017. 336pp. £109.99 hb
ISBN 9783319632865 - Michael J Sandel
Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Allen Lane, London, 2020. 288pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9780241407592 - 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 - Javier Sethness-Castro
Eros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse
Haymarket books, Chicago, 2018. 422pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608468065 - 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 - Ayesha Siddiqa
Military Inc.
Pluto Press, London, 2nd revised edn, 2016. 400pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399010 - Tony Smith
Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century
Brill, Leiden, 2017. 373pp. €129,00 / $149.00 hb
ISBN 9789004352278 - Steven G Snow
Bourgeois Ideology and Education: Subversion through Pedagogy
Routledge, London, 2018. 138pp. £105 hb
ISBN 9781138721111 - Dan Swain
None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation
Brill, Boston, 2019. $110 hb
ISBN 9789004410091 - Mehmet Tabak
Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution and Freedom: A Critical Reconstruction
179pp. £4.36 pb
ISBN 9798604130957 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Derek Wall
Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis.
Merlin Press, London, 2020. 222pp. £10 pb
ISBN 9780850367645 - 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 - David Whyte
Ecocide: Kill the Corporation before It Kills Us
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 240pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781526146984 - 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 - Calvin Winslow
Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 280pp. $26 pb
ISBN 9781583678527 - Kaveh Yazdani
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2017. 670pp. €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 - Slavoj Žižek
Hegel in a Wired Brain
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2020. 208pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9781350124417 - Slavoj Žižek
Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World
Polity, Cambridge UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 140pp. $14.95 pb
ISBN 9781509546114
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