Reprint of review by Mark Langabeer from 2022 The year 1845 saw the publication in German of Friedrich Engels’ brilliant book on the condition of
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TV review: ‘Adolescence’…and how the system fails young people
By Joe Langabeer Ranking number one programme in the Netflix top ten at the moment is Adolescence, a gritty and disturbing drama, starring actor Stephen

By Michael Roberts Canadian Marxist sociologists Murray EG Smith and Tim Hayslip have written a profound and wide-ranging book that aims to elaborate and popularize

The rebellious role of peasants in European history
By Michael Roberts Pausing on further analysis on Trump, trade and tariffs, this post is on economic history. Robert Dees has written an opus of

By Joe Langabeer A new limited series on Netflix, Toxic Town, dramatises the Corby toxic waste case, in which Corby Borough Council was found liable

By Andy Ford One of the key bits of fake news that circulates around on the issue of migration and asylum seekers, is that they

By Andy Ford One of the best-known books in the English language is Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

By Michael Roberts I have long been sympathetic to the concept of long cycles in capitalist production and accumulation. This is the idea that capitalist

By Michael Roberts Ascension Mejorado is Clinical Professor and Economics Faculty Chair in the Liberal Studies program at New York University and Manuel Roman taught

TV Review: Panorama – ‘The Water Company’s Murky Business’
Mark Langabeer watched the recent BBC 1 Panorama documentary which can be seen here Severn Trent is considered a highly profitable water company. The CEO