Reviews

‘You caan’ mek we shut up’ – Review of Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik

By Jeremy Dewar Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (MBB) is a rare thing, a political biography of an artist. Even rarer, a good one at that! By […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  18 December 2022

How to lose… again: A review of Our Bloc by James Schneider

By Dave Stockton In Our Bloc: How We Win, James Schneider, co-founder of Momentum and Jeremy Corbyn’s former Director of Strategic Communications, sets out a strategy for the recovery of […]

Dave Stockton  ·  18 December 2022

Organising from above: Review of A Collective Bargain by Jane McAlevey

By Tim Nailsea A Collective Bargain is Jane McAlevey’s third book, following Raising Expectations (and Hell) and No Shortcuts. These are useful reading for trade union activists and are the […]

Tim Nailsea  ·  18 December 2022

The limits of municipal socialism: A review of Radical Lambeth by Simon Hannah

Dave Stocking reviews Simon Hannah's book on Lambeth Council's struggle against Thatcherism.

Dave Stockton  ·  05 September 2022

Review: Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist by Len McCluskey

The former general secretary's parting gift to the movement will not become required reading for trade union militants

Tim Nailsea  ·  15 November 2021

AWL blames Stalinism for Corbyn defeat

A review of a Workers' Liberty pamphlet on the collapse of Corbynism.

Urte March  ·  02 November 2021

Review: How Black and Asian workers fought bosses and unions in the 20th century

Jeremy Dewar reviews Ron Ramdin's epic history of the black working class.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  07 October 2021

Review: Common History, Common Struggle by Peter Hadden

Review of Common History, Common Struggle by Peter Hadden.

Bernie McAdam  ·  13 February 2021

Review: The War On Disabled People

A review of Ellen Clifford’s The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  12 February 2021

Review: The Corona Crash by Grace Blakeley

Grace Blakeley’s The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism

Andy Yorke  ·  12 February 2021

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