Reviews
Avatar: Visions of the eco-blues
There was much discussion at the time of its launch as to whether James Cameron’s latest product Avatar would save the US movie industry or sink it. Now it has become one of the biggest financial successes since Titanic (which Cameron also directed), but the excitement has centred on market protection possibilities rather than the […]
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The car industry: From lean production to the closure of Longbridge
We Sell Our Time No More: Workers’ Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry is by Paul Stewart, Ken Murphy, Andy Danford, Mike Richardson, Tony Richardson and Vicki Wass.
Reviewed by Alan Thornett.
The authors of this book have done something rather unusual and very important in this day and age — they have written […]
Aztec Civilisation meets the Spanish Empire
A. Kennedy reviews the Moctezuma exhibition at the British Museum.
Moctezuma was the ruler who allowed the Spanish, led by an adventurer called Hernan Cortes, to seize the Aztecs’ Central American empire in 1519-21. The way was thus opened (as historians like to say) for the subsequent destruction of the Inca empire in Peru […]
Patiently deciphering religion
Reason, Faith and Revolution by Terry Eagleton (Yale University Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Andrew Johnson
In recent years, there has been quite an outpouring of books on the subject of religion, or more precisely of arguments for and against atheism. Two of the most popular atheist polemics have been The God Delusion by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, […]
I Am Revolution - a biography of Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel began earning his reputation at an anti-Stalinist revolutionary socialist thinker and militant almost from childhood. His family background helped. Henri Mandel helped set up first Soviet press bureau in Berlin during the German Revolution and even though the father dropped out of politics the son became a revolutionary aged 15 when he joined […]
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The culture of revolution - Rodchenko and Popova Defining Constructivism
1917 to 1924 in revolutionary Russia were years of war, famine and hardship followed by reconstruction. They also yielded a rich seam of artistic activity. A cultural avant garde emerged with an influence on western art, photography, theatre, cinema, architecture, design and advertising that still resonates today.
Influenced by the pioneering work of Kandinsky, Malevich […]
Stereotypes and real people
Fred Leplat compares and contrasts the plays “England Very Nice People” and “Pitmen Painters”
Two plays are currently on at the National Theatre which could not be more different from each other. “England Very Nice People” is by Richard Bean and directed by Nicholas Hytner, the NT’s director. At the interval, I was very uncomfortable, and […]
Four centuries of Bethnal Green’s “True Born Englishmen”
England People Very Nice by Richard Bean at the National Theatre, London. Tickets £10-20. Running till the end of April.
Reviewed by Piers Mostyn
This three hour play about the history of Bethnal Green as seen through its successive migrant communities is without doubt topical.
The first half is a raucous roller-coaster through 3 centuries of migration. Cleverly […]
The Credit Crunch by Graham Turner - a review
The Credit Crunch: housing bubbles, globalisation and the worldwide economic crisis by Graham Turner (Pluto 2008) £14.99
Piers Mostyn’s review will appear in issue 4 of Socialist Resistance magazine.
At any time there would be a crying need for a detailed but accessible debunking of the capitalist economy. But never more pressingly than today, with mass […]
Stop Global Warming – Change the World by Jonathan Neale
Reviewed by Roy Wilkes
Two years ago George Monbiot published Heat, a ground-breaking book which armed a generation of activists with the technical and scientific know how to fight climate change. Jonathan Neale’s new book starts in a similar vein, by explaining the science of climate change and by showing that the technology already exists to […]
ENA chant offensive slogan and ''EEDL'' while marching through peaceful independent shop area of Brighton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7n-tP_4hM 
