The RSC play 'Falkland Sound' tells the islanders' story as they found themselves at the centre of world attention and deals sensitively with notions of jingoism and nationalism Joane Howarth as ...
This is the report delivered by Tom Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally. To ...
In 1879 began the disastrous ‘War of the Pacific’, the Chilean army invaded Bolivia’s ‘Litoral’ department, leaving the poorest nation in South America landlocked. It is thought up to 18,000 Bolivians ...
A chapter in How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism, “The Malvinas War: How Healy Worked as an Imperialist Stooge”, is republished ...
Journalist Sanghera follows up Empireland, his study of how Britain was shaped by its imperial past, with a comprehensive if occasionally off-key look at imperialism’s legacy abroad. Sanghera aims to ...
This book begins with an overenthusiastic and unconvincing effort to distinguish itself from previous works of imperial history. Yet readers should persevere, because Burton’s basic interpretation of ...
In this ambitious sequel to Empireland, the journalist travels far and wide to examine the legacy of British imperialism, piecing together an important rebuttal of revisionist narratives In 1891, as ...
May marks the 169th anniversary of the 1857 Revolt. As has become the norm, we will see speeches and functions commemorating the “First War of Independence”. These tributes will inadvertently reveal a ...
Through the prism of a single September day in 1923, from Jamaica to London to a tiny Pacific island, Parker captures peak British imperialism in vivid detail On 29 September 1923, the British empire ...
Doubtless kindness lay behind Penguin’s absence of response to The Critic’s repeated requests for a review copy for me of this book. My request also failed, but I have gone out and bought a copy, and ...
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