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Gavin O'Toole
art
Book Review / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE explores the resistance expressed by central American artists to their own erasure by US imperialist policies 
chavez
Book Review / 28 August 2024
28 August 2024
Here’s an antidote to the Venezuela election-induced tantrums of Western elites. GAVIN O’TOOLE reviews it
norms
Book Review / 21 May 2024
21 May 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds an analysis of culture that explains why political conflicts today are focused more on values and identity than the economy and social questions
conflict resolution
Books / 15 March 2024
15 March 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE observes that the call for a new international framework for conflict mediation is fatally marred by a partisan position on the Isreali-Gazan conflict
council communism
Book Review / 16 February 2024
16 February 2024
The argument that labour parties, supported by conservative trade unions, are instrumental to capitalism has contemporary resonance, suggests GAVIN O’TOOLE 
protest
Book Review / 29 January 2024
29 January 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE surveys the literature that provides compelling analysis of resistance to neoliberal hegemony
bolivia
Book Review / 25 January 2024
25 January 2024
Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia, and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
Indigenous
Books / 3 September 2023
3 September 2023
GAVIN O'TOOLE applauds the argument that multicultural policies, aimed to empower indigenous peoples, are a smokescreen for their exploitation
Korea
Books / 4 August 2023
4 August 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an account of the post WWII global movement that allied socialist countries against US imperialism
books
Book Review / 16 July 2023
16 July 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an outstanding analysis of global elites that punctures the illusion of their international immutability
books
Books / 9 June 2023
9 June 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds a timely reminder of a past victory, and its clear message that leadership is not to be found among the Labour right 
BOOKS
Book Review / 3 May 2023
3 May 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE relishes an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England