Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad

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An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.

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Comrade Kim Jong Il’s lifelong contribution to the Korean revolution
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Books highlights

Working-class history / Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad

An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.

Capitalist crisis / Book: Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

A meticulously researched exposure of outsourcing and corruption that falls short of finding either the true culprit or the way out for impoverished workers.

Climate change / Book review: The Uninhabitable Earth

While giving admirable details regarding the facts of climate change the author fails to draw the crucial conclusion – that you need to be red to be green.

Books / Polish hack writes laughable fantasy on ‘feeding dictators’

As the crisis of capitalism continues to destroy lives, anticommunist hirelings are churning out increasingly blatant and ridiculous lies.

Health / Covid-19 treatment handbooks issued compiling frontline experience

China's gift to the world is hard-won knowledge: ‘The real remedy for epidemics is not isolation, but cooperation.’

Books / A Nobel prize for literature in the service of reaction

Art and popular history can be powerful tools in manipulating people's minds, and the imperialists are well-versed in using both to bolster their parasitic rule.

Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

Books / Review: The Casual Vacancy

A novel by JK Rowling, televised by the BBC in three parts.

World history / Review: Prosperity’s Predicament

A revealing eye-witness account of pre-revolutionary China by the CPGB-ML’s Honorary President, Isabel Crook.

World history / Review: Ten Mile Inn by Isabel and David Crook

This seminal work continues to bring the achievements and challenges of the Chinese agrarian revolution to life for English-speaking readers.

Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

Books / Charles Dickens, champion of the poor

The first novelist to put working-class people at the heart of story.

Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

Louise Raw reveals the connection of these militant young East End strikers to new unionism, socialism and Irish republicanism.

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Books video

China / Review: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal Brar

Can the market really be made to serve the masses?

British politics / Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

What should British workers conclude from this four-year experiment in ‘reclaiming the Labour party for socialism’?

Books theory

Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter?

Theory / Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm?

Zimbabwe / Book: Chimurenga! The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

A vital lesson in the importance of solidarity with anti-imperialist national-liberation struggles.

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