Amid the Gothic splendour of the reading room in the John Rylands Library, poets Chris McCully and Michael Schmidt gave free readings of work spanning the range of their careers and mapping out their lives as, to quote Schmidt, “rootless cosmopolitans”.
From the Arab uprisings to Occupy, 2011 has been a year of global unrest. Activist Tim Gee’s book Counterpower: making change happen was written to review the past history of these struggles against oppression with an eye to uncovering the secrets of their success, or lack of it.
The backbone of Owen Jones’s debut book is a well-researched, assertive advocacy of a return to a class-based politics that values working-class culture and calls for a future of a progressive labour movement. In it, he goes further than the current fad of analysing the present crisis as the result of unprincipled bankers, tracing the [...]
Small Rocks is a collection of writing from people made destituteby the immigration system.
One year on from the carnage of the so-called Gaza war the 1.5 million people of the strip are still prisoners in their own land, trapped by the active efforts of Israel and the silent complicity of her allies in the international community. The lack of any principled attempt to rein in Israel has resulted [...]
