The Paris Commune: an ode to emancipation
A review by Siyabulela Mama of the book published by Resistance Books.
Reviews
Dear Comrades! These people have to be forgotten
Dear Comrades gives a flavour of what Stalinism really was and how it endures in regimes like Putin’s and Assad’s.
“I will show your illustrious Lordship what a woman can do”
Socialists and feminists always learn and are inspired by those who glimpsed a different world years before our time
Socialisms: A critical debate
Parker makes us perceive opaque bifurcations, ideological shifts and new official narratives covering diverse form of integration within – but also still resistances to – the new capitalist world (dis)order.
I’m not being racialist…but
There is a culture war going on and Paul Embery is on the wrong side of it.
Socialism will never work, it’s human nature innit?
Bregman systematically and logically takes apart the commonsense view that humans are not capable of creating a better society.
Eighteen and Mountbatten
Here is popular “history” at its most dishonest and ideologically manipulative.
Prophet Prolonged….?
This book uses this historically counter factual premise to build its story around an extension of Trotsky’s life for another 13 years.
Saving life on earth
We are well into a mass extinction event, it is accelerating and unlike previous such events it is driven by human action upon the natural world.However, he is clear that the devastation caused by human beings can be reversed by human beings and he puts forward a few broad-brush solutions.
How much would you pay for a jar of honey?
What makes the book of some passing interest is the insight it gives you into how Tories think and behave when they sense no one is watching.
