Dara O'Cogaidhin reviews The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
Andy Yorke reviews The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
Tim Nailsea reviews Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery
Tim Nailsea reviews the 2020 edition of Britain's Road to Socialism
Review of Mangrove, first film in Steve McQueens Small Axe series.
Punch up, not down.
Tim Nailsea reviews A People's History of the German Revolution
Tim Nailsea reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
Bernie McAdam reviews Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax by Simon Hannah
Tim Nailsea reviews The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Global Politics by David Goodhart
Urte March reviews Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Aruzza, et al
Review of Blue Story, directed by Rapman (Andrew Onwubolu) A low-budget debut film made by British hip-hop artist Rapman has hit the news for all the wrong reasons.
Jeremy Dewar reviews From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Tom Sherwood reviews Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
Andy Yorke reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas
THE online culture wars became inflamed again recently in an episode triggered by — of all things — microwave rice. After celebrity chef Jamie Oliver released his new “Punchy Jerk Rice” Dawn Butler, Labour MP and daughter of Jamaican immigrants, took to Twitter to admonish him. She wrote: “#jamieoliver @jamieoliver #jerk I’m just wondering do you know what #Jamaican#jerk […]
Andy Yorke reviews Paul Mason, PostCapitalism
João Moreira Salles’ thoughtful cinematic essay No Intenso Agora begins with Charles de Gaulle’s address to France on New Year’s Day 1968. A warm, almost grandfatherly figure, de Gaulle comments with palpable irony that although “the future is difficult to predict” he is pleased by the “happy, peaceful outlook that 1968 offers upon the nation”. […]
Does Charlie Brooker's latest effort hold a mirror up to the real threat?
A review of Boris Arvatov's Art and Production, published for the first time in English by Pluto Press
Audiences will wish a little more love had gone into James Graham's laboured production