Fully Automated Luxury Communism or scientific socialism
Aaron Bastani’s manifesto promises a utopian world of plenty, but one in which the fundamental relations of the capitalist system remain untouched.
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Category: Reviews
Review: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax by Simon Hannah
By Bernie McAdam To mark the 30th anniversary of the Trafalgar Square Poll Tax demo-turned-riot,...
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Review: The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart
David Goodhart’s new book presents a deeply conservative analysis of the post-Brexit convulsions in British politics
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How Black Lives Matter shattered illusions in Obama’s ‘post-racial’ presidency
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a leading member of the International Socialist Organisation until its dissolution earlier this year, has provided a useful analysis of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement that erupted across the US in the aftermath of the police killing of Mike Jones in Ferguson, Missouri in 2016
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Review: Superior The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
Angela Saini’s third book, Superior, is a logical follow-on from her second, Inferior, on...
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Review: The Left Case Against The EU
ANDY YORKE critiques Costas Lapavitsas’ recent book making the case for Lexit
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Paul Mason: Fully Automated Reformism
By Andy Yorke PAUL MASON left Channel Four to become an independent left commentator back in early...
Read MoreReview of “Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”
The images of the Black Panthers – black berets and leather jackets, afros, guns, the pouncing panther – and their enduring inspiration are so great that it’s hard to believe that this is only the second full length film...
Read MoreWe need to talk about abortion differently
Joy Macready reviews Katha Pollitt, ‘Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights’, Picador, 2014, pp258, $25 “We need to talk about ending a pregnancy as a common, even normal, event in the reproductive lives of women…We need to...
Read MoreFBI's Most Wanted: Review – Assata An Autobiography
By Joy Macready “He looks just like what he is: a racist dog craka… I want to scream, ‘Dirty dog, slimy pig, you’re not a judge. You’re just another prosecutor.” These are the words that Assata Shakur, a founding member of the...
Read MoreBeyond the Fragments?
Review: by Joy Macready 2013 edition Authors: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, Hilary Wainwright Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism was a seminal book in the 1980s. It has been reissued with new essays by...
Read MoreReview: Why it's Kicking Off everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Chris Clough reviews Paul Mason’s latest book Paul Mason’s new book Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere is a thought-provoking look at the wave of struggle that is currently sweeping the globe. It’s an engaging narrative...
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