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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
- Barbara Carol Allen
Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2016. 426pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608465583 - Kieran Allen
1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 232pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336329 - Charles Andrews
The Hollow Colossus
Needle Press, Oakland, CA, 2015. 210pp. $14.95 pb
ISBN 9780967990545 - Ian Angus
A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 160pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583676448 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin and A. W Zurbrügg
Bakunin: Selected Texts 1868-1875
Merlin, London, 2016. 310pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780850367225 - Cathy Bergin
Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream: Communism in the African American Imaginary Representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2015. 232pp. €99,00 / $128.00 hb
ISBN 9789004263727 - Richard J Bernstein
Ironic Life
Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2016. 184pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781509505739 - 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 - A. Bogdanov
The Philosophy of Living Experience: Popular Outlines
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2016. 266pp. €126,00 / $163.00 hb
ISBN 9789004231900 - David M. Brennan, David Kristjanson-Gural, and Catherine P. Mulder (eds)
Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics
Routledge, New York, 2017. 456pp. £165 hb
ISBN 9781138774933 - Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, and Paula Rabinowitz (eds)
Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald
University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, 2015. 432pp. £24.45 pb
ISBN 9781607853459 - Tobias Ten Brink
Global Political Economy and the Modern State System.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2015. 272pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608464746 - Gary K. Browning
A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016. 431pp. £30 pb
ISBN 9780199682294 - Verity Burgmann
Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, 2016. 261pp. £90 hb
ISBN 9780415528535 - Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson
The Profit Doctrine: Economists of the Neoliberal Era
Pluto, London, 2017. 240pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335858 - Noam Chomsky
What Kind of Creatures Are We?
Columbia University Press, New York, 2016. 200pp. $19.95 / £13.95 hb
ISBN 9780231175968 - Joseph Choonara
Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital
Bookmarks, London, 2017. 160pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781910885482 - Frederick C Corney (ed.)
Trotsky's Challenge: The "Literary Discussion" of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution
Brill, Boston, 2015. 848pp. €226,00 / $293.00 hb
ISBN 9789004217256 - Colin Cremin
Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism
Pluto Press, London, 2015. 208pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745334370 - Philip Cunliffe
Lenin Lives! Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Zero books, Charlotte, NC, 2017. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781785356971 - Stephen Cushion
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerillas' Victory
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2016. 336pp.
ISBN 9781583675816 - Joseph Daher
Hezbollah
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 304pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336893 - Benoît Dillet and Tara Puri
The Political Space of Art: The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2016. 138pp. £23.95 pb
ISBN 9781783485680 - Pete Dolack
Its Not Over: Learning from the Socialist Experiment
Zero Books, Alresford, Hants, 2016. 992pp. £34.99 pb
ISBN 9781785350498 - Terry Eagleton
Materialism
Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2016. 176pp. $24 hb
ISBN 9780300218800 - Christos Efstathiou
E.P. Thompson: A Twentieth-Century Romantic
The Merlin Press Ltd, London, 2015. 260pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780850367157 - Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober
Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World
Pluto, London, 2016. 272pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399126 - Neil Faulkner
People's History of the Russian Revolution
Pluto, London, 2017. 304pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399034 - Matt Ffytche and Daniel Pick (eds)
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
Routledge, London and New York, 2016. 287pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781138793897 - Dominik Finkelde
Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics
Translated by Deva Kemmis and Astrid Weigert, Columbia University Press, New York, 2017. 368pp. $65/£54 hb
ISBN 9780231173186 - Paul Flewers and John McIlroy (eds)
1956: John Saville, E P Thompson and the Reasoner
Merlin Press, London, 2016. 444pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9780850367263 - Christian Fuchs
Critical Theory of Communication
University of Westminster Press, London, 2016. 236pp. £18.99 pb; free download
ISBN 9781911534044 - Henry A Giroux
America's Addiction to Terrorism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2016. 288pp. $20 pb
ISBN 9781583675700 - Mike Gonzales
The Last Drop: The Politics of Water
Pluto Press, London, 2015. 224pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745334912 - Jeff Halper
War against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
Pluto Press, London, 2015. 352pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745334301 - Owen Hatherley
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
Pluto, London, 2016. 240pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336015 - Robert Heynen
Degeneration and Revolution
Brill, Leiden, 2015. 668pp. £141.00 hb
ISBN 9004276262 - Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks (eds)
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics after Yugoslavia
Verso, London and New York, 2015. 280pp. £16.99 / $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781781686201 - C. L. R. James
World Revolution, 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Edited by Christian Høgsbjerg, Duke University Press, Durham, 2017. 544pp. £26.99 pb
ISBN 9780822363248 - Simon P James
Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction
Polity, Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA, 2015. 240pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745645476 - Kōjin Karatani
Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2017. 176pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780822369134 - Steve Keen
Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
Polity, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2017. 148pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781509513734 - Rosine Judith Kelz
The Non-Sovereign Self, Responsibility, and Otherness: Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Stanley Cavell on Moral Philosophy and Political Agency
Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York, 2016. 209pp. £70 hb
ISBN 9781137508966 - Victor Kiernan
Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age.
Zed Books, London, 2015. 392pp. £12.99 / $18.95 pb
ISBN 9781783604296 - 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 - David Laibman
Passion and Patience: Society, History and Revolutionary Vision
International Publishers, New York, 2015. 392pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780717807543 - Lauren Langman and George N Lundskow
God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and Its Discontents
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2016. 358pp. €165,00 / $198.00 hb
ISBN 9789004328631 - David Lapoujade
Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Semiotext(e), South Pasadena, CA, 2017. 376pp. £14.95 pb
ISBN 9781584351955 - Jim Mac Laughlin
Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 320pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335124 - Alex Law and Eric Royal Lybeck
Sociological Amnesia: Cross-Currents in Disciplinary History
Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, VT, 2015. 228pp. £65 hb
ISBN 9781472442345 - Michael A Lebowitz
The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2015. 224pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781583675465 - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee and Slavoj Zizek (eds)
The Idea of Communism. Volume 3
Verso, London and New York, 2016. 288pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781784783945 - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and Slavoj Žižek
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
Verso, London and Brooklyn, NY, 2017. 272pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781786631886 - Spencer A Leonard (ed.)
The Platypus Review Reader, 2007-2014
2015. 616pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9780996206112 - Petrus Liu
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2015. 232pp. $23.95 pb
ISBN 9780822360049 - Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, and Wilson Kaiser (eds)
The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas
Duke University Press, Durham, NC and London, 2015. 260pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780822358930 - Otto Maduro
Maps for a Fiesta: A Latina/O Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis
Eduardo Mendieta, Fordham University Press, New York, 2015. 181pp. £13.99 pb
ISBN 9780823263059 - Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams
Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 387pp. £20 pb
ISBN 9781583676295 - Alejandra Mancilla
The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2016. 140pp. £19.95 / $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781783485864 - Peter Marshall
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2nd edn, 2017. 544pp. $29.95 pb
ISBN 9781629633862 - Adam Mayer
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 248pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336572 - Geoffrey McCormack and W. Thom Workman
The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada
Fernwood Publishing, Black Point, Nova Scotia, 2015. 137pp. $22.95 pb
ISBN 9781552667835 - Jim McGuigan
A Short Counter Revolution: Revisiting Towards 2000
SAGE Publications Ltd, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2015. 248pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781446294727 - Tony McKenna
The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2016. 240pp. £25 pb
ISBN 9781845198268 - Todd S Mei
Land and the Given Economy: The Hermeneutics and Phenomenology of Dwelling
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2017. 272pp. $34.95 pb
ISBN 9780810134065 - George Monbiot
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
Verso, London, 2017. 352pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781786630780 - Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani (eds)
Towards the Critique of Violence
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2015. 264pp. £65.00 hb
ISBN 9781472523242 - Francis Mulhern
Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel
Verso, London and New York, 2015. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781784781910 - Bill V Mullin
W E B Du Bois Revolutionary across the Color Line
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 176pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335056 - Nick Nesbitt (ed.)
The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today
Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2017. 328pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9780822369073 - Immanuel Ness
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
Pluto, London, 2016. 240pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745335995 - Ron Nixon
Selling Apartheid
Pluto Press, Place of publication not identified, 2016. 256pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399140 - Luiz Bernardo Pericás
Caio Prado Júnior: Uma Biografia Política
Boitempo, São Paulo, 2016. 483pp. R$ 63,00 pb
ISBN 9788575594483 - Thomas Piketty
Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times
Viking, London, 2016. 192pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780241234891 - Catarina Príncipe and Bhaskar Sunkara (eds)
Europe in Revolt
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2016. 288pp. £11.95 pb
ISBN 9781608465934 - Peter Ranis
Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy
Zed books, London, 2016. 184pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9781783606498 - Juliane Rebentisch
The Art of Freedom: On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence
Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, English edition edn, 2016. 320pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745682136 - César Rendueles
Sociophobia: Political Change in the Digital Utopia
Columbia University Press, New York, 2017. 200pp. £21/$25 pb
ISBN 9780231175272 - Lars Rensmann
The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2017. 600pp. $95 hb
ISBN 9781438465937 - Michael Roberts
The Long Depression: How It Happened, Why It Happened, and What Happens Next
Haymarket, Chicago, 2016. 380pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781608464685 - David Rosenberg
Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History
Pluto Press, London, 2015. 320pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9780745334097 - Alfred Rosmer
Lenin's Moscow
Haymarket, Chicago, 3rd edn, 2016. 288pp. $19.95 pb
ISBN 9781608466153 - Frank Ruda
Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE and London, 2016. 210pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780803284371 - Howard Ryan
Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2016. 248pp. $23 pb
ISBN 9781583676134 - Manuel Sacristan
Marxism of Manuel Sacristan: From Communism to the New Social Movements
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2015. 311pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608465491 - Steven Salaita
Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2015. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781608465774 - Tiphaine Samoyault
Barthes: A Biography
Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2016. £25 hb
ISBN 9781509505654 - Frank Scalambrino (ed.)
Social Epistemology and Technology: Toward Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation
Rowman & Littlefield International, Lanham, MD, 2015. 238pp. £24.95 / $39.95 pb
ISBN 9781783485338 - Ingo Schmidt (ed.)
Three Worlds of Social Democracy: A Global View
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 256pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336084 - Ingo Schmidt and Carlo Fanelli (eds)
Reading Capital Today: Marx after 150 Years
Pluto, London, 2017. 224pp. £18.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399713 - David Scott
Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2017. 200pp. £24.99 hb
ISBN 9780822363637 - Victor Serge
Year One of the Russian Revolution
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2015. 456pp. £11.51 pb
ISBN 9781608462674 - Helena Sheehan
The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 247pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781583676257 - Laurence H. Shoup
Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2015. 400pp. $34 hb
ISBN 9781583675519 - Ayesha Siddiqa
Military Inc.
Pluto Press, London, 2nd edn, 2016. 400pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399010 - Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha
The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 224pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336480 - Daphne Skillen
Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin.
Taylor & Francis, London, 2017. 364pp. £26.99 pb
ISBN 9781138743267 - Sharon Smith
Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital
Haymarket, Chicago, Revised and Updated edn, 2015. 150pp. $16.00 pb
ISBN 9781608461806 - Bernard Stiegler
Automatic Society, Volume 1. The Future of Work
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA, 2016. 280pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781509506316 - Brigitte Studer
The Transnational World of the Cominternians
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2015. 227pp. £60.00 / $90.00 hb
ISBN 9781137510280 - Luis Suarez-Villa
Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2015. 378pp. $100 hb
ISBN 9781438454856 - 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 - Willie Thompson
Work, Sex and Power the Forces That Shaped Our History.
Pluto Press, London, 2015. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9780745333403 - Mikkel Thorup
Pro Bono?
Zero Books, Alresford, Hants, 2015. 100pp. £9.99 pb
ISBN 9781782798675 - Enzo Traverso
The End of Jewish Modernity
Pluto, London, 2016. 176pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9780745336664 - Yanis Varoufakis
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
Bodley Head, London, 2016. 336pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781847924032 - Gavin Walker
The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan
Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2016. 264pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780822361602 - McKenzie Wark
General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century
Verso Books, New York, 2017. 336pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781786631909 - Mark Weisbrot
Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy
Oxford University Press, New York, 2015. 312pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9780195170184 - Richard Westra
Exit from Globalization
Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2015. 203pp. £95 hb
ISBN 9780415835343 - Richard D Wolff
Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014
Haymarket, Chicago, 2016. 223pp. $18.95 pb
ISBN 9781608465958 - Jamie Woodcock
Working the Phones
Pluto Press, London, 2016. 208pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745399065 - 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 - James Young
Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2017. 264pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781583676172 - Slavoj Žižek
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
Allen Lane, London, 2017. 336pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9780241305577 - Mariano Zukerfeld
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism
Translated by Suzanna Wylie, University of Westminster Press, London, 2016. 272pp. £20.99 pb; free download
ISBN 9781911534242
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