REVIEWS
May 7, 2010
Marnie Holborow reviews Fintan O’Toole best-selling critique of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger, Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger.
Chris Harman, editor of International Socialism Journal and leading member of the British SWP, sadly died late last year. Brian O’Boyle considers his final and timely book, Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx.
Paul O’Biren examines Brian Hanley’s and Scott Millar’s history of the Workers Party, The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party.
Sean Mitchell reviews Robert Service’s controversial new biography of revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky, Trotsky: A biography.
Madeline Johansson reviews a new biography of Marx’s collaborator Friedrich Engels, The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels.
Peadar O’Grady looks at Slavoj Žižek, ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’ recent book, First as Tragedy, then as Farce.
