Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World, by Nicholas Shaxson, Bodley Head, RRP £14.99 316 pages Tony Traub The offshore system is in good health. More than half of world trade passes through tax havens. Over [...]
Under Two Dictators; prisoner of Stalin and Hitler Margarete Buber-Neumann Pimlico, London, 2008. £17.99 [Remaindered at The Works,£4.99 - £2.99] We should all read, remember, esteem and learn from Margarete Buber-Neumann writes John Whitfield. She joined the German Communist Party [...]
A review of ‘Turbulent Times in the Car Industry – Memories of a Trade Union Official at Cowley Oxford’ by David Buckle. Paperback, 110 pages, £4.99. Published by David Buckle MBE April 2011. ISBN: 978-0-9568632-0-1. Alan Thornett Former Oxford TGWU [...]
Downfall: The Tommy Sheridan Story By Alan McCombes, Birlinn 2011 326 pages, paperback £9.99 REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER In the elections to the Scottish Parliament in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) polled just under a quarter of a [...]
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable Hardcover: 608 pages Publisher: Allen Lane Reviewed by Liam Mac Uaid Manning Marable was probably the influential historian of the black experience in the United States. He died in April [...]
Liam Mac Uaid is unimpressed by a film pondering the big questions. Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival and it is certainly in a different class from other mainstream commercial successes. [...]
Verso: 288 pages, £8.99 Reviewed by Patrick Scott Originally published in 2009, this updated version of Paul Mason’s book provides the reader with an overview of the global financial crisis from the start of the credit crunch in August 2007 [...]
Alan Thornett’s book “Militant years: Car workers struggles in Britain in the 60s and 70s” is a unique account of trade union and political struggles in the Morris Motors (later British Leyland) car assembly plant in Cowley, where Alan Thornett [...]
One million climate jobs: solving the economic and environmental crises: a report by the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group reviewed by Özlem Onaran The Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group (CaCCTU) has published a revised second edition [...]
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) is an uncompromisingly Catholic film describing the protracted individual Gethsemanes of a group of Trappist monks who were murdered in Algeria in 1996 during the civil war between the state and [...]
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