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Victor Serge was certainly one of most able writers of 20th Century marxism. His life spanned some of the most important and exciting mome...

Those who argue that racism can be overcome, or ended are often confronted with the argument that racism or prejudice has always existed. Ma...

Just as it seems every politician, pop star, minor celebrity and even minor royal has started "offsetting" their round the world f...

On average, each American produces 4.2 pounds of rubbish a day. Most of this is packaging. This staggering statistic starts Heather Rogers...

One of the unexpected consequences of the “War on Terror” has been an attempt to reinvent the history of the British Empire. To justify the ...

There is no doubt that the Rosetta Stone has captured the imagination of many thousands of people. It’s intriguing combination of scripts, u...

Mike Gonzalez's contribution to the excellent "Rebel's Guide" series must have been the hardest to even consider. How do ...

This hilarious novel combines a clever spoof of the horror genre (in particular the Omen films) with razor sharp wit centred on the real-lif...

Harry Mount might well be amused, given his impassioned plea that the end of this book for more people to learn and be taught Latin, that my...

This is a work full of unimaginable pain and suffering. It follows a loose group of Jewish partisans behind German lines in the last few ...

From the evidence of this collection of stories, Thomas Mann was not a happy chap. Or at the very least, he enjoyed discussing the inner con...

This collection of essays on a general theme of capitalism and the environment was first printed in 2002, though all the essays are from the...

The February 2007 part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report made a number of stark predictions about climate change...

I suspect that most of the people who read this book (or indeed this review), will never have seen a slum. I don’t mean the run down bits ho...

All the children's novels Arthur Ransome wrote are escapism. This one deals with the unlikely story of four children alone on a sailing ...

This little book by Duncan Hallas , one of the longest standing members of the SWP in Britain until his death in 2002, contains a brilliant...

For those who want to attack the Russian Revolution of October 1917, there are many myths to peddle. Chief amongst these, are that the revo...

This ancient work by Tacitus is a history of one of the most important periods of Imperial Rome, the period between the death of Augustus, t...

This Victorian novel of courage, bravery and honour, described as "The gripping tale of one man's struggle to ease the brand 'c...

There are a plethora of books coming out at the moment about Climate Change, a colleague of mine half jokingly described it as “the new reli...