reviews

Review of B. Traven's The Death Ship

The Death Ship - book cover

A communist in Australia reviews B. Traven's The Death Ship, and relates it to the 2002 attacks on the working conditions of maritime workers in Australian waters.

Review of The Arch Conspirator by Len Brecken - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes Review of The Arch Conspirator by Len Brecken.

Review of Review of Labour of Love by Buzz Hargrove - Red and Black Notes

Review of Labour of Love by Buzz Hargrove with Wayne Skene, McFarland, Walter & Ross. Buzz Hargrove is one of the best-known trade unionists in Canada, and was at the time head of the Canadian Auto Workers.

Review of Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs - Red and Black Notes

Review of Living For Chang by Grace Lee Boggs.

A review of Joe Jacob's "Out of the Ghetto" - Red and Black Notes

Review of Out of the Ghetto Joe Jacobs, London: Phoenix Press, 1991 (originally published in 1977). For a review of this book by Al Richardson, see here - http://libcom.org/library/review-joe-jacobs-out-ghetto-al-richardson. A chapter from Out of the Ghetto is here - http://libcom.org/library/battle-cable-st-1936-joe-jacobs

In the Loop, directed by Armando Iannucci

Venturing out of Westminster reveals the limits of The Thick Of It’s satire, concludes Tom Jennings

John Zerzan and the primitive confusion - En Attendant

French communist group En Attendant's critique of two key text by anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan.

John Zerzan and the primitive confusion, by En Attendant - Paul Petard

Contented: cavemen happily deciding not to develop language or symbolic culture

Paul Petard reviews a pamphlet criticising the primitivism of John Zerzan.

Moore is Less: a critique of Fahrenheit 9/11

Almost all movies so far, along with their creators, are part of the problem and not part of the solution: they produce a message or a story which is just a commodity to be bought - the audience remains passive, happy to be entertained or to consume the ideology. This is a critique of just one movie - "Fahrenheit 9/11".