Type: New Book

Publication of ‘Bob Crow – socialist, leader, fighter’ by Gregor Gall The 11 March is the third anniversary of the death of Bob Crow, former general secretary of the RMT union. He was just 52 years old. Manchester University Press publishes ‘Bob Crow – socialist, leader, fighter’, which examines his life and legacy, both industrial and political, around the troika

Bibliography of the Communist Party of Great Britain By Dave Cope ‘Nobody interested in the history of the Left in twentieth-century Britain can afford to ignore it.’ Dr Ian Patterson, Queens’ College, Cambridge ‘Its range is exceptional, its scholarship immense.’ Andrew Thorpe, Professor of Modern British History, University of Exeter ‘Dave Cope’s excellent bibliography is a milestone in the

Histories of Violence: Post-war Critical Thought Edited by Brad Evans and Terrell Carver Published 15 January 2017 The first dedicated volume to the problem of violence as developed and critiqued in post-war thought Introduces the ideas of the period’s most influential thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler While there is a tacit

Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History By Dirk Kruijt Published 15 January 2017 The first oral history of Cuba’s revolutionary influence on governments across Latin America and an expose of the ‘Departamento América’ Features original interviews with over 70 Cuban officials and revolutionary veterans A look at Cuba’s historic commitment to spreading revolution abroad,

ON BUILDING A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited, by John S. Saul On Building a Social Movement focuses, as its sub-title suggests, on the North American campaign for southern African liberation. It does so by first evoking both the region-wide battle for liberation from racial oppression that emerged in southern

OUT NOW: UTOPIA by Thomas More with Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville   “We can’t do without this book. We are all and have always been Thomas More’s children.” – China Mieville https://www.versobooks.com/books/2250-utopia ————— Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Five hundred years since its first

New Book: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMERGING MARKETS By Richard Westra https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Economy-of-Emerging-Markets-Varieties-of-BRICS-in-the-Age/Westra/p/book/9781138121225 The Political Economy of Emerging Markets situates the BRICS phenomena in the global economic context of advanced economies continuing to languish in recession and hovering over a deflationary abyss several years after the meltdown. A key question this volume seeks to answer is whether the BRICS and so-called “emerging market” phenomenon is really the new miracle it is presented as, offering new or

Paul Flewers and John McIlroy (editors), 1956: John Saville, EP Thompson and The Reasoner (Merlin Press, pp 450, ?20)   When Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin in his ?Secret Speech? in 1956 the leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain attempted to deal with an unprecedented and unwelcome situation by carrying on as best as

OUT NOW: REBEL CROSSINGS: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States By Sheila Rowbotham   The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century https://www.versobooks.com/books/2321-rebel-crossings ————— Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres By Jamie Woodcock Available here: http://bit.ly/2f7MZ34 —————– ‘A sharp reminder of the difficulties faced by call-centre workers’ – Financial Times ‘Shows us what call centres can tell us about bleakness and resistance in the modern workplace’ – VICE ‘Jamie Woodcock’s brilliant insider account

Using Gramsci: A New Approach By Michele Filippini Pluto Press 2016   This is a new approach to one of the greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the most popular Marxist texts available and continue to inspire readers across the world. InUsing Gramsci, Michele Filippini proposes a new approach based

The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 – 1937 Reiner Tosstorff, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Translated by Ben Fowkes.   http://www.brill.com/products/book/rilu The ‘Red International of Labour Unions’ (RILU, Russian abbreviation Profintern) was a central instrument for the spreading of international communism during the inter-war period. This comprehensive and scholarly history of the organisation, based on