Books
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events in August 2010
1 August, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Paul Russell’s UK Street Photography Exhibition 2. What is wrong with using Amazon? EVENTS 3. ‘Soho Noir’ with Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts 4. ‘Fighting Fascism in London’ with David Renton 5. ‘How to Live Free in London’ with Katharine Hibbert 6. ‘The Short Film Movement’ 7. ‘Dan Continue reading
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Books: The Trojan Spy by Gaither Stewart
From Feodor Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad to Doris Lessing, many have explored what makes nihilists or anarchists or terrorists. In The Trojan Spy, Gaither Stewart enters the same maze with Anatoly Nikitin, a Russian double agent and spymaster from the Cold War era who, in its aftermath, intends to kill his CIA controller responsible for… Continue reading
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Book review: A Road Not Taken – Cybernetic Socialism in the USSR By Paul Cockshott
This is a marvelous and unusual book. It sits in a remarkable way in between science popularisation, social history and fiction. The author describes it variously as a novel whose hero is an idea and a fairytale. The hero idea is that of optimal planning. The idea of running a planned economy in just such… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London: Events Newsletter June 2010
26 May, 2010 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. 10 % discount for Trade Union members 2. Sunday opening over summer months EVENTS 3. ‘Human rights violations and resistance in China since 1989’ with Shao Jiang 4. ‘Demilitarising global society’ with Diana Francis and friends 5. ‘Reclaiming the F Word’ with Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events May 2010
NEWS 1. Meeting room available for up to 12 people 2. Political Junkies Election Special EVENTS 3. ‘The high tide of workers’ autonomy – the Workers’ Committee of Magneti Marelli, Milan, 1975-78’ 4. ‘London Zine Symposium’ 5. ‘Pressure Drop’ with Billy Bragg and Mick Gordon 6. ‘The Life and Times of a Revolutionary’ with Bill Continue reading
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Belén Fernández “Coffee with Hezbollah” A Review By Mary Rizzo
Before reading the wonderful book by Belén Fernández “Coffee with Hezbollah”, I never would have imagined it possible to read about the post-destruction aftermath of Lebanon and smile at the same time. The pretext alone, a hitchhiking trip from Turkey to southern Lebanon simply “feels” dramatic, especially when the memory of Brides on Tour, was… Continue reading
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Book Review: THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF ZIONISM By Israel Shamir
A more accurate title for this book might be“ The Psychopathology of Zionism.” In the bulk of its 299 pages, Kovel meticulously deconstructs Zionism’s deranged psychology, and the reader very soon appreciates that this author’s long years of education in psychiatry and psychoanalysis were not spent in vain! Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Newsletter of Events April 2010
Events: Broonland : The Last days of Gordon Brown with Christopher Harvie – Gender Matters in Global Politics with Cynthia Cockburn and Dibyesh Anand – ‘Animals Count’ campaign launch – No Sweat Forum: Workers Rights in Honduras – Women and Conscientious Objection with War Resisters International – Debate hosted by Red Pepper: If voting changes… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Newsletter March 2010
‘Feminism Today’ – with Nina Power and Lindsey German – ‘Glamour: Women, History, Feminism’ with Carol Dyhouse – No Sweat Anti-Sweatshop Benefit Gig – ‘Women and Activism’ with Maya Evans and Tamsin Omond – ‘Dissenting Women of the Eighteenth Century’ with Jennifer C. Kelsey… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London: February 2010 Events Newsletter
29 January, 2010 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Office space to rent below Housmans 2. Guest book recommendations 3: Housmans blog EVENTS 4. War Resisters’ International present: ‘Antimilitarism In Latin America’ 5. ‘Possibilities for the Post-Capitalist Era’ with Harry Shutt 6. ‘This Room in the Sunlight’ with Bernard Kops: 7. Last Hours Collective present: ‘Excessive Continue reading
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Joe Bageant interviewed by Ian Masters, KPFK
On Sunday, Jan 24, I was a guest on Ian Masters’ Background Briefing radio show, KPFK, Los Angeles. Ian’s show is noted for its hard authoritative analysis by America’s leading political pundits and experts. Being neither, naturally I shotgunned my way through the interview as best I could. Listeners did not seem to mind. Continue reading
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Book Review: When and why did the Russian Revolution go wrong? Brian Pearce, with commentary by Terry Brotherstone
Brian Pearce’s life – largely unsung beyond a substantial circle of friends, intellectual and political contacts, and aficionados of the art of scholarly translation – deserves to be studied by everyone who thinks the lessons of the political tragedies of the 20th century must inform the making of the 21st. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London: Events Newsletter January 2010
‘Health under Capitalism’ with Colin Leys, Wendy Savage and Jonathan Tomlinson War Resisters’ International present: ‘Venezuela: an anarchist perspective’ ‘Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story’ with Eric Selbin Class War Games present: Guy Debord’s ‘Game of War’ and more… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London – Events Newsletter, December 2009
NEWS 1. Best wishes from everyone at Housmans 2. End of the decade sale! EVENTS 3. ‘Change in Putin’s Russia’ with Simon Pirani. 4. Savage Messiah Zine Launch Party 5. ‘Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought’ with Steven Salaita. 6. ‘As Far as The Eye Can Sing’ with Frankie Armstrong. 7. ‘Bending The Continue reading
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America The Betrayed – Walt Whitman: “Poet of the People” By Richard C Cook
If you want to get an idea of what America once was like, read the poems of Walt Whitman.Whitman was born on Long Island in 1819 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family was poor, but even though he left school at the age of 11 he gave himself an education by reading and… Continue reading
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Trance (Langston Hughes: In Translation) by Edgar Nkosi White
Langston Hughes had many contradictions. An enigma disguised as a poet. His sadness he kept to himself and his laughter he gave to the world. His whole life he was searching for Pushkin even before he knew who Pushkin was. Born in Missouri of a black father who almost instantly abandoned both him and America… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS Radical Books, London – Newsletter of events November 2009
NEWS 1. Peace House 50th Anniversary Celebration and Benefit 2. Housmans Peace Diary 2010 3. End of the decade sale! EVENTS 4. ‘What is Psychogeography Today?’ with Rich Cochrane 5. ‘Bob Dylan & Babylon: Together through Life’ with John Gibbens 6. ‘People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity’ with Howard Clark 7. ‘Songs of the Continue reading
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Housman’s Radical Books, London – Events Newsletter for October 2009
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Art as Resistance By Dahr Jamail
Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have tough truths to tell, and it has been well demonstrated that the establishment media does not want to broadcast these. Given the lack of an outlet for anti-war voices in the corporate media, many contemporary veterans and active-duty soldiers have embraced the arts as a tool for resistance,… Continue reading
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