Books
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Studs Terkel: The Passing of An Icon
Studs Terkel was for the little guy. Our voice of America. Against war and “in-bed-with” journalists. To reign in the kind of abuses now rampant. Hold the powerful accountable. Support the public interest. Continue reading
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Housman’s (London) Events Newsletter for November 2008
CONTENTS: (book launch) Elizabeth Carola – ‘Hot’ – stories from Hackney (book event/talk) John Sinclair – ‘Rock and Revolution with the MC5 and the White Panther Party’ (music) ‘Singing the Struggle: Voices, Women, Peace’ with Frankie Armstrong (book event/talk) ‘Digital Film Making’ with Mike Figgis (book event/music) ‘Forward Groove: the radical history of jazz’ with… Continue reading
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Gerald Horne: "Solidarity Forever?"
This is a remarkable and often insightful collection of essays and reflections, many of which have been penned by those who played leading roles in the dramatic story of how a conservative hegemon — the United States — was compelled to retreat somewhat in its support for colonialism and apartheid during the second half of… Continue reading
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Public Reading Rooms: THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS
Dear All, SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER Public Reading Rooms THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS housmans.com for directions Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, “ The London Nobody Knows” exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our guide,… Continue reading
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FRIENDS OF NO. 8 and POET IN THE CITY present: AN ARTHUR RIMBAUD DRIFT
Niall McDevitt leads a poetic walk tracing the steps of the legendary Frenchman and his fellow communard/poet/homosexual/alcoholic Paul Verlaine. Sunday 19 Oct meeting at the Eleanor Cross in the forecourt of Charing Cross station. 1pm. £5/3 (unwaged). Info: 07722163823 (Please note: this walk is lengthy and will take about four hours in its course to… Continue reading
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Housman’s Books Events for October
October 2008 Diary of Events at Housmans, London: (Book event/talk) ‘Understanding Stalin’s Soviet Union 1929-1941’ with Paul Flewers (Book event/talk) ‘Radical Barcelona’with Michael Eaude (Book event/talk) ‘Dark Streets and Shady Places: writers and the East End’ with Ken Worpole (Book event/talk) ‘The Truth About Work and the Myth of ‘Work-Life Balance’’ with Sheila Cohe (Book… Continue reading
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When slaves defeated an empire ‘The Black Jacobins’ By Brian Kwoba
A Trinidad-born writer and socialist, C.L.R. James became a leading intellectual and theoretician within the Pan-African milieu. His book on the Haitian revolution is a Marxist classic. With sweeping literary drama, biting sarcasm and passionate political conviction, The Black Jacobins tells the story of a tremendous historical epoch in brilliant colors. Continue reading
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Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
“The book describes over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. A lawyer and human rights activist of independent temper, Raja has always found much-needed peace by taking walks in the Palestinian hills – a landscape which, owing to occupation, Jewish settlements and disastrous environmental… Continue reading
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Book Review: Democracy versus the people By Slavoj Zizek
Peter Hallward writes in Damming the Flood, a detailed account of the “democratic containment” of Haiti’s radical politics in the past two decades, “never have the well-worn tactics of ‘democracy promotion’ been applied with more devastating effect than in Haiti between 2000 and 2004”. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 