Books
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Capitalism: A Crime Story
Harry Glasbeek is an award-winning author of many titles and is a law professor who once taught a notoriously popular course at Osgoode Law School: The Corporation as Criminal. His latest books have been called “profound and fascinating” by Linda McQuaig. He has also been lauded as a “fearless, daunting crusader for the public good… Continue reading
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Western Civilization Is Wrong: A Review of Michael Hudson’s new book And Forgive Them Their Debts
To say that Michael Hudson’s new book And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (ISLET 2018) is profound is an understatement on the order of saying that the Mariana Trench is deep. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2018
5 November 2018 — Climate & Capitalism Red & Green Reads A bumper crop! Eight new books on biofuels, nutrition fraud, imperialism, post-capitalism, indigenous sovereignty, coral reefs, moral economists, and chicken Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2018
30 October 2018 — Housmans NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Housmans Peace Diary 2019 + White Poppies 2. No More War: Let’s Make Peace Happen – Sunday 11th November 3. Autonomy Now series at Housmans 4. Protest: Together For Climate Justice Continue reading
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Book Review: A Marxist History of Capitalism
An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome Continue reading
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Book Review: Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies by Elke Schwarz By Joanna Frew
The ethical concerns raised by Elke Schwarz in her new book, Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies, help situate the use of armed drones in a deeper discussion of our modern political landscape and point to the issues that must be addressed through substantial ethical reasoning. Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter October 2018
29 September 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Housmans Peace Diary 2019 2. #nottheanarchistbookfair INSTORE EVENTS 3. ‘Kettling the Unions?’ with Alan Tuckman 4. David Rovics and Jack Harris Unplugged at Housmans 5. ‘Fault Lines’ poetry with Laura Taylor and Janine Booth Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JULY 2018
July 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Celebrate and Demonstrate #OurNHS70 2. 1968-2018: A Celebration of 50 years of Resistance 3. Together Against Trump Continue reading
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The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert By Ron Ridenour
Ron Ridenour’s book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, writers and researchers about both what has been reported—mainly malicious propaganda—and what truly took place in the one hundred years from the 1917 Russian Revolution until the eruption of the distinct harbingers of… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JULY 2018
25 June 2018 — Housmans NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Celebrate and Demonstrate #OurNHS70 2. 1968-2018: A Celebration of 50 years of Resistance 3. Together Against Trump Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2018
30 May 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. London Radical Bookfair 2018 + ARB Shortlist 20% Discount 2. Feminist Book Fortnight: Saturday 16th June to Saturday 30th June 3. Stir To Action’s New Economy programme 4. GDPR Update Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MAY 2018
25 April 2018 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans Writer in Residence 2018: Eleanor Penny 2. Marx’s 200th Birthday: conference / shop event / 2nd hand books / tote bag give away 3. Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Shortlist 2018 + London Radical Bookfair 2018 4. Bank Holiday Closures Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER APRIL 2018
27 March 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Easter Closures 2. Aldermaston 60 Years On – CND Rally 1st April 3. Lords v Commoners: Week of Action for Land Rights – 14th to 22nd April INSTORE EVENTS 4.’In Our Hands: Changing the Way we See the Homeless’ with Papakow Baiden, Andy Slaughter (MP for Hammersmith) and Tom Copley Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2018
27 February 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Women’s Strike – Housmans closed in solidarity on Thursday 8th March 2. Police Spies Out of Lives Postcards 3. Jobs and Climate: Planning for a future which doesn’t cost the earth – 10th March 4. Remember Fukushima – Anniversary Events Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2018
30 January 2018 — Housmans NEWS 1. Queer Between The Covers 2. NHS In Crisis – Day of Protest, Saturday 3rd February INSTORE EVENTS Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2017
30 November 2017 — Housmans Bookshop NEWS 1. Late night openings 2. Housmans Peace Diary 3. 1 Day Without Us – National Day of Action – 7th February 2018 Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter November 2017
31 October 2017 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Four special late night openings with 20% discount 2. White Poppies + Housmans Peace Diary 3. Spycops Plaques Project Continue reading
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Spycops Plaques Project and Anarchist Bookfair
This Friday, 27th October, sees the official launch of the new Spycops Plaques Project. The project is about marking some of the places where #spycops operated in the past, with a specially designed plaque being installed at locations across London. Continue reading
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Housmans Books October 2017 Newsletter
2 October 2017 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Housmans Peace Diary is now available 2. Special late night openings with 20% discount 3. Anarchist Bookfair + FiLiA (previously Feminism in London) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 