Book 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

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

Paul Embery: When the dog whistle becomes tedious

A review of Despised by Paul Embery

Tim Nailsea  ·  08 December 2020

How the German Revolution was lost

A review of Pelz's A People's History of the German Revolution.

Tim Nailsea  ·  28 October 2020

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, Simon Hannah has produced an excellent and enthralling account of the epic struggle that helped […]

Workers Power  ·  29 July 2020

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 the failure of science in relation to women. She is a science journalist and BBC scientific […]

Tom Sherwood  ·  07 October 2019

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