Review of two books on social struggle, one on the 1930s and one on the anti-globalisation movement of the 2000s.
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The Two Souls of Democracy
A review of Tony Benn’s 2005 TV programme on democracy. It points out the democracy has many meanings and can, and is, used to justify elite rule.
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Review: Debunking Economics
Review of an excellent book on the weaknesses of neo-classical economics by post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen. An expanded second edition appeared a few years later.
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Review: After the New Economy
Review of an excellent book by Doug Henwood about the 1990s “New Economy” hype.
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The irresistible correctness of anarchism
A lengthy critique of the SWP’s attempt to rewrite the history of the resistance to Italian fascism in the early 1920s as well as the revolutionary Red Years after World War I. An important, if not well known, bit of anarchist history. An edited version appeared in Black Flag
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