Book review - Poplar; Lessons of a historical struggle
Alan Woodward of the Radical history Network reviews Janine Booth's "Guilty and Proud of it: Poplar's Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919-25".
Review of James Burnham's The Modern Machiavellians - Paul Mattick
Paul Mattick's critique of The Modern Machiavellians. by James Burnham. Published by John Day Co., New York, 1943.
The strike and its enemies
A review of Joe Burn's book, Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.
Stupid regulators and greedy financiers or business as usual? - Chris Wright
As the occupy movement in the US this week shifts its attention from the shiny crystallisations of high finance to the hubs of material circulation, Chris Wright reviews Paul Mattick Jr.'s book, Business as Usual, and asks: what is missed by shouting down only one aspect of capitalism?
Top Boy, by Ronan Bennett, Channel 4
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Dec 1 2011 15:22
Yet another teenage gang tall story glimpses beyond the moral panics and tired miserabilism of most poverty porn.
A review of “Weakening the dam”
A review of 'Weakening the Dam', a pamphlet put out by the Twin Cities IWW branch for the purpose of promoting the development of workplace organizers.
Earthquakes, crack-heads and utopias
Review article: A Paradise built in Hell: The extraordinary communities that arise in disasters by Rebecca Solnit, Viking, 2009.
Attack the Block, directed by Joe Cornish
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Oct 29 2011 10:39
An apparently refreshing take on underclass alienation soon sours into the same old rancid reaction
In defense of the city. Review of 'Common Ground in a Liquid'
Review of Matt Hern's 'Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future'
Due process? Review of 'Come Hell or High Water'
Review of Delfina Vannucci & Richard Singer's 'Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry'
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