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With Iran rapidly becoming the new demon for the West's war on terror, I figured that some background to the country was in order. One o...

This is an unlikely Marxist novel. Now that's not to imply that this is some clunky Stalinist era-story, telling of the great successes ...

Noreen Branson's excellent work looks at one of the great high points of the British Labour Party's history. In the early 1920s, w...

Anyone involved in climate or environmental politics will have been inspired last summer when the workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine blade ...

The East End of London has had more than its share of historians. This shouldn't surprising as it was the centre of some of the most imp...

It's difficult to believe that this 1947 novel about life in Berlin under Nazi rule, only made it into print in English in 2009. As no ...

Fredrick Engels spent much of his life in the shadow of Karl Marx. In itself, this shouldn't be too surprising - Marx's genius eclip...

This is an unusual crime thriller. It follows an unlikely hero, Charles Latimer, as he crosses Europe trying to get discover the full story ...

The idea that market mechanisms are the solution to our climate crisis might be considered dangerous in the light of recent economic events....

Alastair Reynolds continues to go from strength to strength, though quite how he churns out such large volumes, quite so regularly is a myst...

(Edited and Translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova). Since reading Life and Fate , I've been waxing lyrical about it to any...

Sometimes I need to listen to people around me before reading books. I've liked much of Charles Stross' earlier work, as it pushes n...

At the start of the 19th century, the world was a very young place. God had created the planet a few thousand years previously and placed, a...

Recent reading has made me think about how it was that the hopes of the Russian Revolution of October 1917 became the distorted caricature...

I started this volume of the excellent Wonders of the World series prepared to dislike it. Perhaps I shouldn't read press releases, but ...

This is a superb book. Rarely do I come away from reading a non-fiction book feeling as satisfied as I did when I closed Stuffed and Starve...

Few countries have a history that really allows for novels on an epic scale. France is of course one, with its revolutions and Commune, dic...

Why the world is dominated by us and not Neanderthals, is a surprisingly complex question. Traditionally, we've been given an image of N...

In the simplistic view of British History, there was a brief period around 2000 years ago of stability, civilisation and prosperity with the...

No one has done more than John Bellamy Foster over recent years to reassert an ecological aspect to Karl Marx's thought. In a series of ...