Reviews
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Book Review: On A Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal
March 26th: by Terry Bisson ISBN: 978-0-87486-901-9 9780874869019 PP: 215 Publisher: Litmus Books £9.99 This is terse, efficient prose.![](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/detail_322_Pocketbooks_leGuin150.jpg)
Book Review: The Wild Girls
March 9th: by Ursula Le Guin ISBN: 978-1-60486-403-8 PP: 112 Publisher: PM Press £9.99 With an epic author like Le Guin, I couldn’t help but go straight to her interview with Bisson.
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Book Review: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety
March 2nd: by Julius Deutsch, edited & translated by Gabriel Kuhn ISBN: 978-1-62963-154-7 PP: 128 Publisher: PM Press £11.99 This book is too short.
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Book Review: Marge Piercy’s My Life, My Body
February 23rd: Author: Marge Piercy Publisher: PM Press/Outspoken Authors ISBN: 978-1-62963-105-9 Pages: 128 This is a highly enjoyable collection of very readable “essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries.” Mostly non-fiction, it’s strong and political throughout many of the works.
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Double book analysis: Peter Davison on George Orwell
February 16th: In this review and analysis piece, Raymond S.
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Book Review: Donald Rooum’s Anarchist Wildcat Comics
February 15th: PM Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-62963-127-1 PP: 128 Publisher: PM Press As it should be, Rooum’s playful illustrations dominate this volume.
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New guides to a smarter activism
October 31st: Several new guides to help activists be safer, more effective (and just know your stuff) have been released recently, so below is a brief roundup: Squatting (Britain) The Advisory Service for Squatters’ new handbook, brought out over the weekend, which is the first new release since the government made squatting empty residential buildings illegal.
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Book Review: Roses and Revolutionists
October 24th: ISBN: 978-1-910170-17-5 Price: £6.99 Pages: 106 Publisher: Five Leaves Books Nominally a work of history, Nigel Todd’s book on the founding, growth and eventual collapse of the Clousden Hill anarchist co-operative feels as though it could be written now with only a few technological twists.
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So tell me again how the bus service is going to be run: a review of Inventing the Future
May 4th: By Roger of Radical Think Tank, and Radical Assembly Education group Some time back in the analogue days of the 1980s I was sitting in a room with three other nerdy, design-obsessive anarchists, working out the founding principles of the worker and housing co-op federation Radical Routes.
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Rescuing Galbraith from the conventional wisdom
July 10th: John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society is the only modern book on economics to become a best-seller.