Books
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New book: “Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change”
The first decade of the new millennium opened, and threatened to close, with an involution in the system of global capitalist production—a multiple crisis of global proportions in the first instance and a region-wide crisis in Latin America in the second. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Paul Robeson!
Celebrate the life and legacy of singer, actor, civil rights activist, organizer, and scholar, Paul Robeson, on April 9th, the 121st anniversary of his birth. Egalitarian and anti-fascist, he was a victim of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he was subsequently blacklisted in the entertainment industry for his leftist politics. Continue reading
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Books: Surpassing US Military Supremacy by Ron Ridenour
This is not a typical leftist or peace activist, but after reading his book and a piece on the website of the world’s most aggressive naval institution, I surmise that this Russian-American seeks to influence the avaricious eagle into realizing that warring against the cautious bear would not achieve success for anyone. Continue reading
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Gossip Girls
Silvia Federici has been one of the most influential and widely cited Marxist feminist scholars of the last 50 years. Her landmark work, Caliban and the Witch, argued that witch hunts were an organized campaign of mass murder of women who defied the increasing implementation of a patriarchal, authoritarian order under a rapidly developing capitalist state.… Continue reading
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Waterstones paying millions to US ‘vulture fund’ owners while denying staff living wage
29 March 2019 — CorporateWatch Waterstones staff are demanding to be paid the living wage. Management say the company can’t afford it but an investigation by Corporate Watch has found: Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter 6 March 2019
6 March 2019 — Housmans Books IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT FRIDAY 8th MARCH CONTENTS 1. Women’s Strike – Friday 8th March – Housmans Closed from 10am – 6pm 2. ‘Switchboard Lgbt+ Helpline’s 45th Birthday’ with Natasha Walker and other Switchboard members Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2019
28 February 2019 — Housmans NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Dream Nail’s Live Album – recorded at Housmans 2. No Pasaran – A European Conference 3. Bread & Roses – New Workers Beer Company bar & venue in King’s Cross 4. AFest 2019 – Get involved! Continue reading
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Books: Capitalism Has Failed—What Next? by John Bellamy Foster
Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system. The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2019
17 February 2019 — Climate & Capitalism Reading matters Six new books expose environmentalism’s false friends, analyse the idea of ‘environment’, explain renewable energy, trace the history of oceans, expose Monsanto’s Round-Up, and examine UK science denial Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this column lists and links to those that seem Continue reading
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An outline of ‘Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia’
How can socialism be rejuvenated to ensure social parity, democratic processes, and environmental sustainability for humanity? Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2019
31 January 2019 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Bernard Franks Memorial Book Sale 2. No Pasaran – A European Conference Against the Rise of the Far-Right Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2019
4 January 2019 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. A series of new year book sales at Housmans, first one starts Thursday 10th January 2. Self-care as an Act of Warfare: A Black Women’s Reading Group – new monthly group Continue reading
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‘Dust Bowls of Empire’ exposes capital’s global assault on the land
The “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s was an iconic moment in American history. As a result of what one historian called “the inevitable outcome of a culture that deliberately, self-consciously, set itself [the] task of dominating and exploiting the land for all it was worth,” tens of thousands of people fled their homes, usually losing… Continue reading
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Review: Britain: Gordon Brown’s self-exoneration rings hollow
Gordon Brown went from being a creditable left-wing British Labour MP in the 1980s to Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) under Tony Blair from 1997-2007 and then Prime Minister from 2007, until his defeat at the hands of the Conservatives in 2010. As co-architect of New Labour, he became a champion of business elites,… Continue reading
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Book Review: The roots of Fascism and the seeds for its defeat
With the rise of the right internationally, there has never been a more pressing need for clarity about the roots of fascism, its history, and why and how it can be defeated. Among the clearest thinkers on this subject is German socialist Clara Zetkin, whose writing on the topic has been republished thanks to the… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018
11 December 2018 — Housmans The following is a list of 50 books that have been particularly popular with Housmans customers this year. Hopefully there’ll be something here to tickle your fancy. For more book ideas it’s worth seeing what was submitted and shortlisted for both the Bread and Roses and Little Rebels awards: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com littlerebels.org Continue reading
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Housmans Peace Diary 2019 now available
Every year we publish the world-renowned Housmans Peace Diary – this is the 66th edition. It includes a World Peace Directory listing almost 1500 national and international peace, environmental and human rights organisations from around the world. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 