Books
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Book Review: From the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black Panther Party Bruce A. Dixon
Historians are supposed to help us make sense of the world, by illuminating the forces and trends that shape the lives and destinies of ordinary people. But historians in the service of power do something else. Whether carelessly or carefully, they omit and distort to come up with histories that justify today’s establishment as the… Continue reading
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Housmans Newsletter December 2013
3 December 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Please encourage your friends and family to support Housmans2. Seasonal closing times3. Date change for Seumas Milne event4. ForcesWatch petition to stop recruitment of 16 year olds into the UK armed forces Continue reading
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Book Review: How the corporate elite win the class war By John Palmer
Susan George returns to the conceit of the global conspiracy as the framework for her latest book. This approach allows her, tongue in cheek, to track just how far the financial, economic, ecological and social crisis has intensified over the past 16 years and has neutered so much of the democratic life of out societies. Continue reading
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Housmans Books 26 November 2013: Building improvements / Boycott Amazon / Cards & Calendars / Books of the Year
26 November 2013 — Housmans 1. HOUSMANS IMPROVEMENTS & A REQUEST FOR YOUR SUPPORT2. DIARIES & CALENDARS3. CHRISTMAS CARDS4. BOOKS OF THE YEAR Continue reading
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Book Review: Israel’s Evolution towards a Fascist Racist State By Jim Miles
This is a powerfully written book, a mixture of current events, historical data, and personal anecdotal comments and stories. Throughout there are pervasive themes that clearly outline the nature of the Israeli state as it exists today. From May 2009 up to early 2013, Max Blumenthal passed “many prolonged stays in the Holy Land,” from… Continue reading
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Terry Bell’s ‘Right to Fight’ download
Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro. WB] Continue reading
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Terry Bell's 'Right to Fight' download
Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro. WB] Continue reading
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Housmans Books News Update: Ticket offer/ Ralph Miliband Sale/ Late additions to October events
2 Otober 2013 — Housmans NEWS UPDATE1. Housmans Peace Diary 2014 2. Special Offer for Housmans supporters – half-price tickets to a benefit gig for our sister organisation Peace News‘COME OUT! WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED: A Celebration of People Power’ Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter September 2013
3 September 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans New Online Shop – In Affiliation With Hive2. Peace News fundraiser: “Come Out! We Have You Surrounded!”3. The Cally Festival, Sunday 8th September 12-6pm Continue reading
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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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