All that is solid melts into thin air
Book review: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek. Published by Allen Lane, 2018 • review by Colin Fox • I read Slavoj Žižek’s new book Like a Thief in Broad Daylight in Venice ...
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‘Syriza: no longer a laboratory for hope but a cause for despair…’
by Colin Fox • Book review: The Syriza Wave – Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by Helena Sheehan. Published by Monthly Review Press, £16.99 • In the decade since the banking crisis ...
Chomsky on who rules the world
Book review by Alex Miller • Who Rules The World? by Noam Chomsky. 2016 Hamish Hamilton paperback, £9.99 • Noam Chomsky, who recently turned 88, revolutionised the study of linguistics in the ...
Rebel Crossings: the personal is political
Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso) • Book review by Jenni Gunn • It was the feminist movement that coined and ...
Why green capitalism can’t work
Book review: Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work by Daniel Tanuro from Resistance Books • by Norman Lockhart • I was glad I invested £10 for this book, even though the first third of the ...
The remarkable Eleanor Marx
Book review: ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life’ by Rachel Holmes (Bloomsbury 2014, £25) by Alex Miller This new and very well-written biography tells the story of the life of Eleanor Marx (known to ...
Restless Land: a radical history that needs to be in every school and college
Book review: Restless Land – a Radical Journey Through Scotland’s History by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson. Published by Calton Books, 2014 by Pam Currie Well, I thought when I agreed to write ...
‘A pub full of revolutionaries who want nothing to change’
Book review: The Story of Sandy Bells: Edinburgh’s World Famous Folk Bar by Gillian Ferguson. Published by Troubador by Allan Armstrong Sandy Bell’s on Forrest Road is “Edinburgh’s World ...
Scottish Socialist Voice 