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Magisterial Jose Carlos Mariategui
[Jose Malanca]
ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
A MARXIST who was the first to subject the continent to historical materialist analysis, Peruvian Jose Carlos Mariategui remains an emblematic figure in Latin America.
It had obliterated the Inca power elites and state structures but left their communal networks, their culture and organisation practically intact.
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations
The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old