Books.
All of the articles we have published under the tag Books, beginning with the most recent.
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“Hand out the arms and ammo”
The enduring optimism of late 60s music contrasts starkly with the cynicism of the early 2020s—but the political parallels are striking.
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Manchester, Poster Child of Municipal Neoliberalism
Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City is a provocative study and a much-needed riposte to the siren song of trickle-down housing.
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Aliens at the Border
The 1905 Aliens Act, and the role of significant parts of the labour movement in agitating for immigration controls, forces us to think concretely about how racism changes.
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Abolition is Class Struggle
Coercion and control are the tactics of abusers, and coercing and controlling the working class is the job of the police. Abolition is class struggle!
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No Thanks: How the white art left launders the carceral state
Anwen Crawford’s ‘No Document’ purports to pay tribute to rebellion, but instead spirals off into a narcissistic vortex of white possession.
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Moving On Again
Where next for the left after Starmidor?
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Taking the Labour Movement Forward: A Review of ‘The Shadow of the Mine’
The history of coal mining in Britain, focusing on the South Wales and Durham coalfields, their insertion into imperialism, the gendered regimes of production, and class struggle.
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Tactocracy and the Ends of Football
Recent years have seen the emergence of a tactocratic attitude towards football – how much does this aid the commodification of the game through seeking to marginalise contingency?
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Games Within Frontiers
In this extract from the new edition of ‘Games Without Frontiers’, Joe Kennedy discusses and analyses his life playing football.
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“It’s the Assets, Stupid.”
Colin Drumm on a call to doing political economy that takes the class dimensions of both generational struggles and monetary policy seriously.
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Why does race still matter? An interview with Alana Lentin
Alana Lentin discusses her debt to Stuart Hall, the colonial constitution of racism, and fracturings of anti-racist solidarity.
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Introducing Transgender Marxism
An exclusive extract from the introduction to TRANSGENDER MARXISM.
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Beyond Workers' Inquiry
The mass-produced automobile brought about shifts in spatial relations, the reproduction of labour power, and consciousness—shifts that completely overhauled strategies of bourgeois class struggle.
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Historical Cycles in the Formation of the Condition of the Mining Working-Class in Bolivia (1825–1999)
Bolivia's former Vice President traces the material conditions that enabled the militancy its mining proletariat.
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Spaces and Scales of the Mining Proletariat
The urbanisation of the countryside enacted by the mining industry in Chile has produced devastating spatial, racial, and gendered polarisations.
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"Indigenous freedom was, and is, a place"
The long traditions of Indigenous resistance, of which #NODAPL was a part, demonstrate the possibilities for just and liberated futures.
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Extinction Politics
The idea of a global commons and of "natural limits" emerged in the 1970s, and forms a Neo-Malthusian structure of thinking that underpins certain environmentalist movements and practices.
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Burning Bridges: A Review of ‘Red Metropolis’
Owen Hatherley's Red Metropolis is a valuable account of the achievements of the London Left—but is limited by its pessimism and an unwillingness to draw lines.
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What if this is the beginning, not the end? An interview with Owen Hatherley.
The left's most prolific author on Red Metropolis, London's municipal socialism, class recomposition and its political effects, and the influence of William Morris.
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Being Real: A Review of Christopher Chitty's Sexual Hegemony
Chitty's book, though unreliable in parts, provides significant empirical support to those who read sexual liberation as one aspect of broader social struggles.
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The Waking of the Insects
Zheng Chaolin's poem of 1984, taken from the Verso collection 'Poets of the Chinese Revolution', with notes by Gregor Benton.
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Abolish Silicon Valley: Tom Gann interviews Wendy Liu
Wendy Liu discusses her political journey from ardent Silicon Valley Kool Aid drinker to scathing critic of the entire industry (and capitalism), as documented in her new book 'Abolish Silicon Valley'.
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Always a Spark of Hope. A Review of Burn it Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution
'Burn it Down' documents the fundamental optimism of feminist movements; the belief that things can change.
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Resisting Surveillance Capitalism
Socialists should be worried about surveillance capitalism not because it is an unprecedented economic form, but because it exploits and alienates in ways similar to 19th century industrial capitalism.
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Dissident Friendships
How can we think about political relations between women? Can intimacy be a radical act? A recent book aims to examine these questions.
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Popular Feminisms
A review of Lola Olufemi’s 'Feminism, Interrupted' and Alison Phipps’s 'Me, Not You'.
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One Man's Terrorist: Daniel Finn and Daniel Baker in conversation.
Throughout the conflict, the IRA’s military capacity and significant, but not decisive, support in working class Catholic communities gave it a power of negative veto but little chance of outright victory.
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A Revolution without Breaks or Interruptions
A poem by Zheng Chaolin, with extended notes by translator and compiler Gregor Benton.
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Introducing Zheng Chaolin
Tom and josie consider the relationship between Zheng Chaolin’s life, his politics, and his poetry.
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Those Who Fight For Us Without Us Are Against Us: Afrofeminist Activism in France
An archive of French Afrofeminist thought and organising, a tradition which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
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We Don't Have To Love Our Jobs: a review of Juno Mac & Molly Smith's 'Revolting Prostitutes'
"Sex work is work,” has become the refrain of the sex worker rights movement. For Mac and Smith, it’s an invitation to question our attachment to the entire concept of ‘work’.
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Revolutionary (Un)Productivity: a review of Jenny Odell's 'How to Do Nothing'
What would it take to reject capitalist temporality? In Jenny Odell's popular book, Nicole Froio finds a new way to think about productivity, connection, and relationship.