PETER MASON applauds the revival, 39 years later with the same team and cast, of Manfred Karge’s version of Brecht’s 100-year-old play, Mann Ist Mann
Direction of travel for anti-imperialist advance
CARLOS MARTINEZ recommends Samir Amin's invigorating reflections on how revolutionary change can be realised in the Global South
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ALEX HALL applauds the account of a dogged, traumatic and punishing campaign for justice that has lasted from 1998 to the present day
NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself
The Long Revolution of the Global South: Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International
by Samir Amin
(Monthly Review Press, £23.54)
THE FIRST volume of Samir Amin’s memoirs, published over a decade ago, dealt primarily with his early life and the experiences that contributed to his intellectual formation and the major ideas with which he is associated — the critique of Eurocentrism, the notion of the “long transition” to socialism and his insistence on “delinking” from the imperialist triad of the US, Europe and Japan.
This second and final instalment, published a few months after his death, combines a reiteration of Amin’s key political ideas with a whirlwind tour of the dozens of countries he visited, from Algeria to Zambia, and they include many places, such as Mauritania and East Timor, that one doesn’t hear about often enough.
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