1917 reviewed
You can tell 1917 is an important film as I was able to watch it in my local cinema in a village in Carmarthenshire within a few days of its release, writes Geoff Ryan.
Reviews
Orwell, Anti-colonialist, Anti-fascist …. Blue Labour?
Orwell’s greatest contribution is his brilliant dissection of both fascist and Stalinist totalitarian regimes through Animal Farm and 1984 along with Homage to Catalonia on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
Change the Record
Cameron’s book “For the Record” reeks of entitlement. If you disliked him already, this book will have you practically throwing up.
Free Associations in Psychoanalysis, one of its Red Threads
Psychoanalysis was a radical modern project, at one with the development of capitalism and, for many of its early practitioners, at one with the emergence of an alternative to capitalism
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inspires Labour’s GND
Alan Thornett reviews A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos, (London, Verso, 2019). 208 pp. £10.99
A paradigm of modern barbarism
Enzo Traverso’s new book, Critique of Modern Barbarism, is reviewed by Herman Pieterson.
Joker – is it getting crazier out there?
“What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you fuckin’ deserve!” Joker
Left Hooked on Twitter
Ian Parker reviews Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine, lured by birdsong into the pit of hell
Facing the Apocalypse reviewed
Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for ecosocialism by Alan Thornett, Resistance Books 2019 reviewed by Hans A Bauer.
