GAVIN O’TOOLE explores the resistance expressed by central American artists to their own erasure by US imperialist policies 

Here’s an antidote to the Venezuela election-induced tantrums of Western elites. GAVIN O’TOOLE reviews it

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

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

The argument that labour parties, supported by conservative trade unions, are instrumental to capitalism has contemporary resonance, suggests GAVIN O’TOOLE 

GAVIN O’TOOLE surveys the literature that provides compelling analysis of resistance to neoliberal hegemony

Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia, and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE

GAVIN O'TOOLE applauds the argument that multicultural policies, aimed to empower indigenous peoples, are a smokescreen for their exploitation

GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an account of the post WWII global movement that allied socialist countries against US imperialism

GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an outstanding analysis of global elites that punctures the illusion of their international immutability

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 

GAVIN O’TOOLE relishes an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England

GAVIN O’TOOLE explores how US federalism has been exploited by Republicans, but remains the best arena for progressive solutions

GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an insightful and grounded analysis of the market as a political tool of neoliberalism

GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a book that analyses current affairs in an accessible way that speaks to readers without fancy abstraction, just blunt common sense

There is a disturbing circularity about Britain’s decline, a form of costume drama time loop so inescapable it could almost be the stuff of fantasy, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE

A valuable tool for comprehending which way the momentum is swinging the pendulum of British politics – and why, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE

GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a book that analyses how a smartphone is creating combatants of us all, at least in terms of how wars are understood and represented

This is a concise and timely handbook to Russia policy in the Middle East, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE

Radical changes are required in the publishing industry for working-class writers to overcome the multiple challenges they face in a sector from which they are largely excluded, posits GAVIN O’TOOLE

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GAVIN O’TOOLE is taken by a book that offers a tactile source of pleasure that is just as addictive as using a smartphone