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The parallels between the rise of the far-right in Europe in the 1930s and today, with far-right and fascist figures and organisations gai...

I was motivated to re-read Class Struggles in Eastern Europe by two anniversaries. The first was the 30th anniversary of the fall of the ...

The Searchers is an iconic Western which, in many ways, has come to exemplify the myth of the West itself. A land of huge open spaces, of...

Walt, the last surviving bodyguard of King Harold, roams Europe in the aftermath of William the Bastard's invasion of England in 1066....

Say the word "Viking" and most people in Britain will immediately think of raids. murder and pillaging, and possibly, rememberin...

In this wide-ranging history authors Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall attempt to demonstrate that nonviolent strategies are the most success...

Naomi Klein's latest book, despite it being an updated collection of essays, is possibly her best. Punchy, polemical, insightful and ang...

The Second World War was a transformative period for British rural society. The restrictions of wartime production, the expansion of agric...

Tash Aw's novel We, the Survivors is not an easy read. It deals with the consequences of economics and history for ordinary people. I...

This short, readable and stimulating book begins with the author overturning perceived knowledge about the 18th century economist Robert M...

I've always thought fondly of Ring of Bright Water , a book that had a pride of place on my father's bookshelf and a film that I v...

The recent radical "pink" governments in Latin America are part of a long history of revolutionary politics in that region. Howe...

It is fair to say that Terrorism and Communism is not one of Leon Trotsky's greatest works. That stems to my mind from the conditions...

I have long anticipated Diarmaid MacCulloch new biography of Thomas Cromwell and there is no doubt that it is a masterpiece of research an...

Despite being dated this classic military text retains much value both historically and as a work of literature. The author, later Major G...

*** Warning Spoilers *** I picked up Stephen Baxter's latest novel World Engines: Destroyer after a very positive review in the Guar...

The question of non-violent social change has once again become a major focus of discussion within social movements, in particular because...