Short takes of revolutionary women
Brief reviews by Steve Thornton of books and movies about revolutionary women.
Nawal Saadawi’s The Hidden Face of Eve (book review) – Magida Salman
Review by Arab feminist Magida Salman of Nawal el-Saadawi's 'The Hidden Face of Eve', criticising its tendency to minimise women's oppression in the Arab world as part of her reaction to the deficiencies of Western feminist analysis on Thirld World women.
Tintin: Breaking free of class-only politics - Hugh Goldring
An article by Hugh Goldring about Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free, an exercise in detournment that situates Tintin on the front lines of the class struggle. The article addresses the theme of intersectionality in the comic.
Clampdown: pop-cultural wars on class and gender, by Rhian E. Jones
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Jan 18 2014 10:59
A superb addition to Zero Books' list of slim volumes reaching the sociocultural-political parts other publishers can't reach
Top of the Lake, by Jane Campion, BBC2
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Nov 13 2013 09:29
This bewitching imaginary of symbolic expression and obscene realism has far more depth than your average TV police drama.
Review: The deconstruction of professor Thrub - DD Johnston
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 5 2013 12:54
Steven Johns reviews the ambitious second novel of DD Johnston which follows a young woman on a riproaring ride through 20th-century history from the Belfast outdoor relief agitation to Spain during the civil war and Budapest in 1956.
Review: The Albert memorial: the anarchist life and times of Albert Meltzer (1920-1996) an appreciation - Phil Ruff
Submitted by working class s... on Oct 29 2013 20:30
A review of Philip Ruff's book The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (1920-1996). Albert was described as"Printworker, writer, troublemaker, but above all a tireless anarchist activist, Albert Meltzer is one of the most important figures in twentieth century anarchism. Scourge of Liberals and tyrants, he never stood aside from the struggle for a better world" by the Kate Sharpley Library.
The East, directed by Zal Batmanglij
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Oct 21 2013 20:39
A rare cinema fiction tackling radical environmentalism ties itself in knots trying to offer a 'balanced' argument
Review: Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking past terror: Islamism and critical theory on the Left (Verso, 2003)
Arya Zahedi takes critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss to task on positing political Islam as a "Middle Eastern" answer to the fight against capitalism in the region.
Ghosts of Leninist past: a review of The Roots of American Communism
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 7 2013 03:05
A review and some comments from Juan Conatz on Theodore Draper’s history of the various factions that would become the Communist Party USA.
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