Eyes Left What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest? ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
Book Review Sunday 19th Dec 2021 Book Review Forgotten Soviet leader restored for posterity ANDREW MURRAY recommends a book that rescues Leonid Brezhnev and his time in government from undeserved oblivion
BOOKS Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 BOOKS A year that changed China and the world ANDREW MURRAY recommends a book on the 1949 victory of the communist revolution which transformed the country and impacted on national liberation movements globally
Book Review Sunday 08th Nov 2020 Book Review The life of the young Stalin in every conceivable context Stalin emerges from this book as unremarkable, but his discipline and aptitude as a practical worker commended him to Lenin, who was repaid with unflinching political loyalty, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Books Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Books The battle for post-Brexit Britain can be won A new book underlines why there are grounds for left optimism now we have left the EU, says ANDREW MURRAY
Book Review Tuesday 08th Oct 2019 Book Review Corbynism from Below, edited by Mark Perryman Stimulating perspectives on where grassroots ‘Corbynism’ goes next in challenging times
Books Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Books Corbynism from Below, edited by Mark Perryman Stimulating perspectives on where grassroots 'Corbynism' goes next in challenging times
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Systemic savagery Insurgent Empire lays bare the depredations of British imperialism, one of the greatest engines of exploitation and oppression in human history, says ANDREW MURRAY
BOOK REVIEW Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 BOOK REVIEW Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J Evans A lengthy biography attempts – not entirely successfully — to do justice to the 'most famous historian in the world'
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Commodity by Photis Lysandrou The crisis in the global economy comes under scrutiny, with the focus on the financialised world market
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Valuable insights into the demise of the Soviet Union The End of the Beginningby Carlos Martinez(LeftWord, £5.99)
