“Whether you can get to the exhibition or not, just take a few minutes to look at her wonderful art online. All her pictures can be found free on the internet. There are films and documentaries about her on YouTube.”
Hong Kong’s Fight for Democracy
22 December 2020, byFor “anyone interested in getting a deeper understanding of how the 2019 rebellion of Hong Kong fits into the bigger China picture and what might be coming around the corner”.
Extracting the Andes
22 December 2020, by“There are few better guides than Planetary Mine to the possible economic and technological futures of Latin American likely to emerge in the wake of COVID-19”
Socialisms: A critical debate
22 December 2020, by“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.”
Socialism will never work, it’s human nature innit?
30 November 2020, byHumankind – A Hopeful History (Bloomsbury 2020) by Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of Utopia for Realists (Bloomsbury 2017).
Prophet Prolonged….?
25 October 2020, byDave Kellaway reviews Dan La Botz’s book, Trotsky in Tijuana, published by BookLocker.com, Florida 2020.
“Why it is worth preparing for breaches to open in these two systems and strive for socialism”
13 October 2020, byLivio Maitan, Memoirs of a critical communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International, Preface by Daniel Bensaid, translated by Gregor Benton, edited and with an introduction by Penelope Duggan, Resistance Books, IIRE, Merlin Press, 2019, 455 pages.
Global Fever
13 October 2020, by“For the upcoming movements around COVID and climate, such ‘Leninist’ interventions will be indispensable, and those involved will learn much, and gain great inspiration, from this electrifying book.”
War Communism? Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
13 October 2020, byGradual reforms can’t do the job: only profoundly radical measures can ensure human survival in an epoch of global sickening.
Hong Kong in revolt and The Art of Rebellion
13 October 2020, byTwo recent additions to the literature on the 2019 revolt in Hong Kong: Au Loong-Yu’s Hong Kong in revolt is a compelling and informative narration of the revolt for a broad international audience, while The Art of Rebellion gives further insight through an effective mixture of reportage, artwork and photography.
