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A Radical Agenda for Britain

“As the Conservative Party threatens to break up on the contradiction between market dogma and traditional Conservative values and institutions, it is sobering to reflect that neither the Labour Party nor the academic Left has produced a hegemonic interpretation of this event, or a persuasive alternative vision of . . .” read more

Confronting the African Tragedy

“Sub-Saharan Africa became independent roughly thirty years ago, and it is already hard to remember the optimism that African leaders, and most western Africanists, then felt about the future. Yet the history of the previous ninety years—i.e. since 1870—seemed to justify optimism. The colonial regimes established in the . . .” read more

Still a Question of Hegemony

“The analysis in nlr 179 by Bob Jessop, Kevin Bonnets and Simon Bromley of Thatcherism’s current difficulties in terms of the weaknesses of its economic strategy, demonstrates the power and indispensability of ‘traditional’ political economy. But it also shows some of the limitations of that approach. They . . .” read more

The Formation of British Capitalism

“Periodically a book illuminates and orders a complex and vexed question not so much by discovering anything new or by fresh theory, but simply by looking at it systematically and avoiding premature conceptualization. In setting out to close ‘the most outstanding lacuna in the understanding of our recent . . .” read more

Thatcherism and British Manufacturing

“In the broadest sense we are dealing with an old phenomenon. Carthage fell, Rome fell; now it is Britain’s turn. More narrowly it is a new phenomenon, the first instance of the threatened absolute decline of a fully capitalist social formation. The last phase of the internationalization of . . .” read more