Books
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LONGVIEW: Deer Hunting With Jesus
Much has been said about white working-class voters. But those who’ve been doing all the talking are pollsters and political operatives. As part of our Long View series, ANP traveled to rural Virginia to talk to someone who’s lived the life and knows from personal experience what those voters are thinking — author Joe Bageant.… Continue reading
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Video: Benjamin Zephaniah, “Money”
Video: Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah, born and raised in Birmingham, England, is a poet. Rejecting the appointment as an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003, Zephaniah wrote: Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear that word “empire”; it reminds me of slavery, it… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS, LONDON EVENTS NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2009
CONTENTS: NEWS 1. Housmans online bookshop launched! Over 500,000 titles available… 2. Housmans Peace Diary 2010: Special pre-publication offer EVENTS 3. Last Hours present: Spoonboy, Kelly Kemp and PJ & Gaby Friday 4th September – 7pm till 10pm 4. Greenpeace and Climate Camp present: ‘No New Coal – Stopping Kingsnorth’ Wednesday 9th September – 7pm Continue reading
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Book Reviews: Immigration Past, Immigration Present: Confronting the Internal “Other” in Europe By Brian McCook
Immigration is now generally acknowledged as a fact of life across the democratic political spectrum within Europe, and a vast array of policies and programs have been adopted over the past decade to integrate “newcomers” into the mainstream. Nevertheless, immigration remains a highly contentious issue within the public consciousness, especially when stirred by a populist… Continue reading
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Book Review: Ecology and Socialism: Inseparable Revolutions
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels famously urged the world’s workers to unite because they had a world to win, and nothing to lose but their chains. Today, the reality of climate change and worsening environmental breakdowns globally adds a further vital dimension to this strident vision of human liberation. We still have a world to… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events, August 2009
Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events, August 2009 Continue reading
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What’s New at Reading from the Left?
Reading from the Left is a non-commercial project to promote socialist pamphlets and books. It provides free chapters from Marxist books, and full texts of Marxist pamphlets, from a variety of publishers. Continue reading
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Who Needs an Islamic State? by Yoginder Sikand
Islamism may be described as a version of Islam predicated on the centrality of the notion of an “Islamic state” whose principal function is to enforce, and rule by, what is conventionally regarded as shariah law. Islamism is far from being the homogenous phenomenon that it is often taken to be. Nor are all versions… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, Events in London during July 2009
Housmans Radical Books, Events in London during JULY 2009 Continue reading
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Book Review: In praise of Engels By Michael Fitzpatrick
Hunt provides a comprehensive account of Engels’ life and work. He gives him full credit for his important contribution to the emergence of Marxism, from his collaboration with Marx in The Communist Manifesto of 1848 to his contributions to Capital (including the laborious tasks of editing and publishing Volumes 2 and 3 after Marx’s death)… Continue reading
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Introducing Reading from the Left: New Website Provides Free Downloads of Current Socialist Books and Pamphlets
Reading from the Left features free PDF downloads of pamphlets, reviews and announcements of socialist books, free PDF downloads of book chapters, and in some cases entire books. Continue reading
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Book Review: Alison Frank, “Towards a Great German Oil Empire”
Although the book’s title might seem to imply that Germany waged war in order to secure access to oil, the narrative itself does not suggest that this was the case. On the contrary, the thirst for oil seems to have been as much driven by military success as it was an inspiration for military engagement.… Continue reading
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Book Review: Nancy Jacobs, "Nation-States as Building Blocks"
After one hundred pages of questioning the inevitability of decolonization and neocolonial domination, and of generalizing about Africa, we home in on 1960 to make sense of dozens of territories too durable to be taken apart and powerful enough for a degree of innovation. This raises the worthy question of how all these separate histories… Continue reading
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John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”
Video: John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza” Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London – Newsletter June Events 2009
CONTENTS: NEWS 1. Volunteers needed to help with the Peace Diary 2. Your second-hand books are still wanted! EVENTS ‘Meltdown The End of The Age of Greed’ with Paul Mason Wednesday 3rd June – 7pm Grey Hen presents: ‘Uncomfortable Poems by Older Women’ Saturday 6th June – 5pm Shamanic Maps of How the Universe Works Continue reading
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Palfest closed by armed Israeli policemen BY BRENDA HEARD
Although a full programme had been publicly announced on 16 April 2009, the Israeli Ministry of Internal Security waited until moments before the Festival opening to dictate that the “event could not be held because it was a political activity connected to the Palestinian Authority.” Participants were ordered to leave and Israeli police were posted… Continue reading
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Book Review: Nathaniel Mehr, “Making Visible the Frames of War”
Butler assesses the ways in which a variety of methods of control — from ’embedded’ journalism to immigration rules based on highly derivative notions of identity — have served to entrench a perception of a threatening and anti-modern ‘other,’ whose torture and physical destruction is thus rationalised. Making a stand for the humanity of the… Continue reading
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Video: John Bellamy Foster, “One World Ecology”
John Bellamy Foster: There’s no way you can separate peace and ecology. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books Newsletter May 2009
Housmans radical bookshop London, events in May 2009 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 