Books
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Housmans Books London – Newsletter July 2013
21 June 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Reading and discussion groups at Housmans 2. Supporters Card Continue reading
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The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky
In the expanded second edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. Continue reading
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Book Review: Our NHS on the brink By Bernadette Hyland
Edited by Raymond Tallis and Dr Jacky Davis, ‘NHS SOS: How the NHS was betrayed – and how we can save it’ it is a difficult book to read. In chapter after chapter we see the way in which determined neoliberals have hacked away at a cherished British institution. Davis and her co-writers do not… Continue reading
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The US as Superintendent of Global Capitalism: A Response by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin
We very much appreciate these generous, perceptive and comradely comments on our book and we hope our response will contribute to continued discussions and further research. Continue reading
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Books: The Importance of State Theory By Bob Jessop
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s long-awaited The Making of Global Capitalism, said to be ten years or more in the making, is ‘about globalisation and the state’. More precisely, Panitch and Gindin use its 450 pages to provide an important, informative, and well-written account of the predisposing factors, emergence, expansion and transformations, of global capitalism,… Continue reading
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The Finance Curse: Introduction By Dan Hind
It is now well known that many countries which depend on earnings from natural resources like oil have failed to harness them for national development. In many cases it seems even worse than that: for all the hundreds of billions of dollars sloshing into countries like oil-rich Nigeria, for instance, such places seem to suffer… Continue reading
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BFP Book Review: “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism’ by Trevor Aaronson”
How the FBI creates and facilitates phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim victory in the war on terror. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2013
31 May 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. STIR subscription offer2. London’s Burning season, July-August at Housmans Continue reading
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The ARB London Radical Bookfair 2013 – this Saturday!
Over 50 bookstalls, 20 guest authors, 2 book prizes, 1 real ale bar, 1 vegan food stall, and hopefully you! Come and support radical bookselling and publishing in all its traditions, this Saturday at the inaugural London Radical Bookfair. Continue reading
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Queen of the Skies By Joe Bageant
As I drove through the decaying neighborhood in Winchester, Virginia the pain of growing up there came back — the stabbing kind that only lasts a second but makes you flinch as you remember some small but stupid and brutal moment of adolescence. I have never known if everyone has them, but I’ve always suspected… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER APRIL 2013
3 April 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans special offer: buy Tim Gee’s ‘Counterpower’ and get ‘You Can’t Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy?’ free 2. Housmans special offer: The Anarchist FAQ volumes 1 and 2 3. The ARB London Radical Bookfair 2013 – Saturday May 11th Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWS UPDATE 22 March 2013
22 March 2013 — Housmans 1. ‘The Revolution of Everyday Life’ with Donald Nicholson Smith this Friday 29th March2. Housmans new publication ‘You Can’t Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy?’ by Tim Gee now in stock3. Appeal from Ken Loach4. Easter opening hours5. ‘Is green growth possible and do we really need it?’ a debate with Pete Continue reading
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Book: DESTROYING LIBYA AND WORLD ORDER – The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution By Francis A. Boyle
It took three decades for the United States government—spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama)—to terminate the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution, seize control over Libya’s oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2013
1 March 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans publishes free e-book ‘You Can’t Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy?’ by Tim Gee2. New book published by Peace News: ‘The March that Shook Blair’013 – Saturday May 11th Continue reading
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Movie Review: Robbery of Books and Ownership of Narrative By Susan Abulhawa
I finally watched The Great Book Robbery at the University of Pennsylvania this weekend with some friends. It’s a film documenting Israel’s systematic looting of over 70,000 books from Palestinian public and private libraries after Jewish gangs in Palestine proclaimed the state of Israel and ethnically cleansed the native population. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2013
28 January 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Clearance Sale continues – £1 Peace books added! Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter and Events January 2013
9 January 2013 — Housmans NEWS1. January 50% Clearance Sale 2. Events now on Google calendar Continue reading
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Books: Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 