Reviews
Review: Travis Alabanza BURGERZ
October 24th: BURGERZ Written and performed by Travis Alabanza Hackney Showroom, 7.30pm, until 3rd November Today I find myself unexpectedly writing a theatre review.
Review: The Anarchists in Paris, May-June 1968
August 10th: This handy little pamphlet appears in the 50th anniversary year of the events of May-June 1968 that shook France and the world.
Book review: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
August 4th: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things Raj Patel and Jason W.
Review: Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW
July 10th: This book deals with the international scope of the IWW, how it spread to other countries, often through the idea of the One Big Union being carried overseas by seafarers.
Book Review: The Doomsday Machine — Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
April 17th: Daniel Ellsberg points to uncanny truths in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove (1964), including the fact that Russia does have an automated ‘Doomsday Machine’ system (called ‘Perimeter’) that will trigger nuclear war if a single nuclear bomb goes off in Moscow.
Radical lit roundup
April 7th: KSL’s quick roundup of recent anarchist books on 19th century history, First World War syndicalism and enigmatic figure Peter The Painter.
Book Review: Anarchists Never Surrender
April 2nd: This book is a collection of new translations of articles by Victor Serge (1890-1947).
Book Review: The Cambridge Squatter – architecture, cinema and education
March 27th: Accompaniment to Eliane Caffé’s original film, which blended documentary and fictive elements to tell the story of life at the Cambridge Hotel in São Paulo, Brazil.
Book Review: Private Government — How Employers Rule Our Lives
March 18th: This is both an important book which raises a key issue and one which simply states the obvious.
Book Review: The Anarchist Roots of Geography
February 16th: Anyone who wants evidence that anarchist geography is alive and well today need only read this book.
