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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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Reviews should adhere to the following instructions about content, layout and style:
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 - Gregory Albo, Stephen Maher, and Alan Zuege (eds)
State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. $237 hb
ISBN 9789004462267 - Ian H Angus
Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2021. 558pp. $155 hb
ISBN 9781793640901 - Himani Bannerji
Ideological Condtion: Selected Essays on History,Race and Gender.
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2021. 820pp. £36.99 pb
ISBN 9781642595932 - Lelio Basso
A Heterodox Marxist and His Century: Lelio Basso: Selected Writings
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 204pp. $163 hb
ISBN 9789004321687 - Otto Bauer
The Austrian Revolution
Translated by Eric Canepa, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2021. 400pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781642591620 - Peter Beilharz
Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. 440pp. $217 hb
ISBN 9789004443976 - Roland Boer
Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance
Springer, Singapore, 2021. 124pp. £49.99 pb
ISBN 9789811646959 - Amadeo Bordiga
Science and Passion of Communism
Haymarket, Chicago, 2021. 658pp. $36 pb
ISBN 9781642593471 - 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 - Sonja Buckel
Subjectivation and Cohesion: Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law
Koninklijke BrillNV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021. 1pp.
ISBN 978-90-04-43201-7 - Tom Bunyard
Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 430pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460793 - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Socialism in Marx's Capital: Towards a Dealienated World
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2021. 154pp. £69.99 hb
ISBN 9783030552022 - 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 - Fausto Corvino
Global Justice, Markets and Domination: A Cosmopolitan Theory
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, 2020. 175pp. £70 hb
ISBN 9781839102554 - Ana Cecelia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts
A World Beyond Work?: Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia.
Emerald, Bingley, 2021. 232pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781787691469 - 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 - Jean-Numa Ducange and Elisa Marcobelli (eds)
Selected Writings of Jean Jaures: On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism.
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2021. 188pp. £79.99 hb
ISBN 9783030719586 - Zillah R Eisenstein
Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 160pp. $20 hb
ISBN 9781583677629 - Brian Elliott
Landscape and Labour: Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2021. 168pp. £81 hb
ISBN 9781786609106 - Jonathan Fardy
The Real Is Radical: Marx after Laruelle
Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2021. 240pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350168077 - Silvia Federici
Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism
PM Press, Oakland, 2020. 152pp. $15 pb
ISBN 9781629637990 - Barbara Foley
Marxist Literary Criticism Today
Pluto Press, London, 2019. 265pp.
ISBN 9780745338842 - David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Allen Lane, London, 2021. 704pp. £30 hb
ISBN 9780241402429 - Antonio Gramsci
Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25
Eds Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus Green, Columbia University Press, New York, 2021. 288pp. $35 pb
ISBN 9780231190398 - Tom Hazeldine
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
Verso Books, Brooklyn, 2020. 304pp. £20 hb
ISBN 9781786634061 - Christoph Hermann
The Critique of Commodification: Contours of a Post-Capitalist Society
Oxford University Press, New York, 2021. 224pp. £64 hb
ISBN 9780197576755 - Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
A People's History of Detroit
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 320pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009351 - Peter Jones
The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009: A New Approach to Applying Marx's Value Theory and Its Implications for Socialist Strategy
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2019. $157 hb
ISBN 9789004398320 - Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper
Great Anarchists
Dog Section Press, London, 2020. 128pp. £6 pb
ISBN 9781916036567 - 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 - Philippe Le Goff
Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment
Bloomsbury, London and New York, 2021. 272pp. £28.99 pb
ISBN 9781350076808 - Michael A Lebowitz
Between Capitalism and Community
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2021. 208pp. $24 pb
ISBN 9781583678862 - Ernest Mandel
Introduction to Marxist Theory.
Resistance Books, London, 2020. 306pp. £15 pb
ISBN 9780902869653 - Karl Marx
Karl Marx's Writings on Alienation
Ed. Marcello Musto, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020. 184pp. £65 hb
ISBN 9783030607807 - Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2019. 258pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781107195998 - Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (eds)
Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
PM Press, Oakland, 2020. 368pp. $27.95 pb
ISBN 9781629637822 - Andy Merrifield
Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 192pp. $23 pb
ISBN 9781583678794 - David Muhlmann
Capitalisme Et Colonisation Mentale
PUF, Paris, 2021. 123pp. 16,00 € pb
ISBN 9782130826903 - Phil Mullan
Beyond Confrontation: Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents
Emerald, 2020. 276pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9781839825637 - Christopher Norris
Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems
Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781643171593 - Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes
Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Organization
Verso Books, Brooklyn, 2021. 320pp. £19,99 pb
ISBN 9781788733830 - Maïa Pal
Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires and Capital
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2021. 342pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781108497206 - Gabriella Paolucci (ed.)
Bourdieu E Marx. Pratiche Della Critica
Mimesis, Milan, 2020. 446pp. € 32,00 pb
ISBN 9788857555751 - Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert
Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 352pp. $29 pb
ISBN 9781583678640 - 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 - Axel Roch and Magda Van Suntum (eds)
Christophe Kotanyi. Cent Dérives - a Hundred Drifts - Hundert Driften
gegenstalt, Berlin, 2020. 544pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9783981315684 - Alessandro Russo
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 360pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009528 - 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 - Ronald Grigor Suny
Stalin: Passage to Revolution
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020. 896pp. £35 hb
ISBN 978-0691182032 - Eric Toussaint
The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 280pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781608463091 - Ntina Tzouvala
Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020. 276pp.
ISBN 9781108684415 - Neil Vallelly
Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness
Goldsmiths Press, London, 2021. 234pp. £24.99 hb
ISBN 9781912685905 - Harsha Walia
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2021. 320pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9781642592696 - Derek Wall
Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis.
Merlin Press, London, 2020. 222pp. £10 pb
ISBN 9780850367645 - James D White
Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
Bloomsbury, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781474224062 - Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke
Dissenting Pows: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2021. 160pp. $19 pb
ISBN 9781583679081 - Robert A Williams
Garrison State Hegemony in U.S. Politics: A Critical Ethnohistory of Corruption and Power in the World's Oldest 'Democracy'
Peter Lang, New York, 2021. 244pp.
ISBN 9781433183478 - Zhou Xun
I Know Who Casued Covid-19: Pandemics and Xenophobia.
Reaktion Books, London, 2021. 256pp. £16 hb
ISBN 9781789145076 - Paul Zarembka
Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021. $169 hb
ISBN 9789004432697 - Slavoj Žižek
Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World
Polity, Cambridge UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 140pp. $14.95 pb
ISBN 9781509546114 - Jacob A. Zumoff
The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2021. 248pp. $32.95 pb
ISBN 9781978809895
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