Sex, violence and Stieg Larsson
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The first volume of Stieg Larsson’s thriller trilogy was originally titled Men Who Hate Women; in English translation, it was renamed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Books
No Quislings on the left
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I live in a part of London where streets of identical Victorian houses are sporadically punctuated by uglier buildings of visibly 1940s or 1950s design. The architectural incongruity stems from the extensive pounding the area took from the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
Is Marxism Eurocentric?
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A common charge heard against Marxism in recent decades is that it is a Eurocentric theory, one with arguably colonial assumptions and underpinned by Western values.
Fight the power...with counterpower?
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Tim Gee claims to have “a single idea which explains why social movements succeed or fail”. Two hundred pages later I am not convinced.
Lies, ant-semitism and conspiracy theories
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Umberto Eco’s protagonist is a spy (who is not particular about which state police he serves), a forger, an agent provocateur and a stool pigeon.
Verse against the odds
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This collection includes 60-odd pieces of political verse written over the last quarter-century, most of them originally published in Solidarity or in one of its forerunners.
Sharp on technology, soft on capitalism
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Mark Lynas has written a provocative book that deserves to be read and discussed.
Walking through Capital with David Harvey
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David Harvey’s Companion to Marx’s Capital may become the most widely-used handbook for studying the great “critique of political economy” which Karl Marx published in 1867.
History as Twitter feed
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Paul Mason is fascinated by the Facebooking, tweeting, text-messaging young activists he has met across the world in the revolts of the last two years.
The Cleft
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Nicola Stott reviews Doris Lessing’s The Cleft.