Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Review

  • Andrea Enisuoh: Why does education fail black youth?

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    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 33] Recent research on the achievements of ethnic minority pupils, by David Gillborn and Caroline Gipps. HMSO, 1996, £9-95. Reviewed by Andrea Enisuoh. The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) have released their review: Recent Research into the Achievements of Ethnic Minority Pupils. Spanning a period of major…

  • Nancy Taaffe: Loach’s Best?

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    [Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 30] Nancy Taaffe reviews the latest film by socialist director, Ken Loach. Carla’s song is the latest joint venture between director Ken Loach and writer Paul Lavery. The film tells the story of George (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas) and is primarily concerned with the relationship that…

  • Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

  • Christine Thomas: Rape on Trial

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    [Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 31-32] Carnal Knowledge – Rape on Trial, by Sue Lees. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1996, £20hbk. Reviewed by Christine Thomas. In August this year Julia Mason endured six days of cross-examination in court by the man who had raped her. Waiving anonymity in order to speak out she said…

  • Christine Thomas: Can-Do Girls

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    [Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 31] The Can-Do Girls – A Barometer of Change, by Adrianne Katz. The Body Shop, 1997, £5-00. Reviewed by Christine Thomas ‚Can-Do‘ Girls speak out about their aspirations and ambitions. Optimistic, selfmotivated, assertive, positive, ambitious, directed and focused are just some of the adjectives used to describe a…

  • Peter Taaffe: Russia’s agony

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    [Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 24-28] Peter Taaffe reviews a recently published book, Rebirth of a Nation – an Anatomy of Russia, by the former Financial Times Moscow correspondent, John Lloyd (Michael Joseph Publishing, £20). John Lloyd built a reputation in the 1980s as a perceptive industrial reporter for the Financial Times, particularly…

  • Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia

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    [Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…

  • Lynn Walsh: The economics of Perestroika

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    [Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 19-21] Abel Aganbegyan is Gorbachev’s chief economic advisor. The recent publication in the West of his book, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika (Hutchinson £8.95), is itself an indication of the profound crisis now facing the ruling bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Until recently official Soviet economists denied…