Sects and ‘new left’ disillusionment. Mike Macnair reviews P Blackledge, N Davidson (eds) Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism: selected writings 1953-1974, Brill (Historical materialism series),... »
Science
Red planets: Marxism and science fiction – Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds)
Blind, dumb logic of capitalism. James Turley reviews Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds) Red planets: Marxism and science fiction Pluto, 2009, pp293, £19.99. When English literature departments first arose in Anglo-Saxon academia, their purpose was in some ways relatively well defined. The bourgeoisie, so its political allies in the aristocracy and flunkies among the intelligentsia... »
Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England – Steve Jones
Beyond the limits Huw Sheridan reviews Steve Jones’s Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England Little, Brown, 2009, pp307, £20 The anniversarial hype surrounding Charles Darwin continues unabated. The BBC alone broadcast a seemingly endless flow of programmes as part of its Darwin season. Jones’s book is essentially a polemic against the parody of Darwin’s... »
Nuclear power is not the answer- Helen Caldicott
Simon Wells reviews. New Press, 2006, pp221, £13.99 Helen Caldicott trained as a physician and has been campaigning on nuclear issues for 35 years. Her strength is in countering the nuclear industry’s spin and lies and using... »
Heat: how to stop the planet burning- George Monbiot
Fiddling while the Earth burns? Simon Wells reviews Monbiot’s new book. Penguin, 2006, pp276, £17.99 In this book – claimed to be a “manifesto of what is possible” – George Monbiot seeks to show that there is a solution to the climate crisis, ... »
The structure of evolutionary theory- Stephen Gould
Stephen Jay Gould, who died in May 2002, was widely viewed as a scientific ally of the left. In part this was due to his vigorous public polemics against the christian fundamentalists’ ‘creation science’; against the revived rightwing ‘social... »