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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.
Guidelines for reviewers
Reviews should adhere to the following instructions about content, layout and style:
Some recent books for review
- Theodor W Adorno
Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society, 1964
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, 2019. 192pp. £17.99 pb
ISBN 9780745679488 - 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 - Paul Blackledge
Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2019. 278pp. $95 hb
ISBN 9781438476872 - Ashley J. Bohrer
Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2019. 279pp. €29.99 hb
ISBN 9783837641608 - Jeremy Brecher
Strike!
PM Press, Oakland,CA, 50th anniversary edn, 2020. 640pp. $28.95 pb
ISBN 9781629638003 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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, Kyrgyzstan, 2020.
- Kaan Kangal
Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020. 213pp.
ISBN 9783030343347 - 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 - 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 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - Henri Lefebvre
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, or the Realm of Shadows
Verso Books, New York and London, 2020. 240pp. £18.99 hb
ISBN 9781788733731 - Daniel Andrés López
Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 620pp. £186 hb
ISBN 9789004417670 - 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 - 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 - Daniel Mourenza
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2020. 258pp. € 99,00 hb
ISBN 9789462980174 - 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 - 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 - William L Remley
Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350048249 - Sheldon Richmond
A Way through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture
Cambridge Scholars Publisher, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2020. 221pp. £61.99 hb
ISBN 9781527549227 - 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 - Ranabir Samaddar
Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2017. 336pp. £109.99 hb
ISBN 9783319632865 - John Sayles
Yellow Earth
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 416pp. $28 hb
ISBN 9781642590210 - 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 - 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 Thompson (ed.)
Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social Ontology
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 459pp. $192 hb
ISBN 9789004357600 - 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 - Victor Wallis
Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories
Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 2020. 252pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-35065-9 - Richard Westerman
Lukács's Phenomenology of Capitalism: Reification Revalued
Springer International, Cham, Switzerland, 2019. 308pp. £64.99 hb
ISBN 9783319932866 - 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 - 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 - Slavoj Žižek
Sex and the Failed Absolute
Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2019. 496pp. £22 hb
ISBN 9781350043787
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