Books
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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
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Matthew Thomas Clement, “Energy (and Empire) in World History”
Nations like England and the United States, which have consumed and continue to consume vast quantities of energy, are not considered important factors in the changing relationship between human society and energy. By drawing from various other works (e.g., Bagchi 2005; Cronon 2003; Davis 2002), this paper will attempt to correct for Smil’s failure to… Continue reading
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Yassine Temlali, "Images of Women in the Maghreb: Persistent Clichés and Changing Realities"
‘The evolution of the conditions of women still appears crucial for understanding the changes underway in Maghreb societies today,’ Khadija Mohsen-Finan writes in her introduction. These changes can be grasped through the evolution of the way society as a whole looks at women and their role.’ Continue reading
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Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth By Morgan Strong
The Zionists also invented the idea that Jews living in exile were obligated to return to the Promised Land, a concept that had been foreign to Judaism, Sand states. Continue reading
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Jorge Majfud, "Eduardo Galeano: The Open Eyes of Latin America"
The texts are accompanied with illustrations in the manner of little vignettes reminiscent of the careful art of book publishing in the Renaissance, in addition to the author’s drawings as a young man. Continue reading
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Jorge Majfud, “Eduardo Galeano: The Open Eyes of Latin America”
The texts are accompanied with illustrations in the manner of little vignettes reminiscent of the careful art of book publishing in the Renaissance, in addition to the author’s drawings as a young man. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books (London) NEWSLETTER APRIL 2009
Calendar of events for April 2009 at Housmans Radical Books, London Continue reading
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Antoine Capet, “The Zionist Masquerade”
Renton very convincingly points to the third misapprehension by arguing that there was no real demand for a ‘Jewish home’ among world Jewry, if only because there was no such thing as world Jewry. The Jews, like the rest of mankind, were profoundly divided among themselves, and the Zionists were probably in a minority everywhere. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books (London) Newsletter for March 2009
Housmans Radical Books (London) Newsletter of events for March 2009 Continue reading
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Housmans Bookshop (London): Miners’ Strike 25th Anniversary: Party and Book Launch
Book launch for The ‘Dirty 30’ – an oral history of the Leicestershire Miners who struck throughout the entire dispute. By Dave Bell and published by Five Leaves. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books (London) Newsletter February 2009
Housmans calendar of events for February 2009 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 