Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'
Exuberant times with Grimes at the Social
It's hard to empathise with the dysfunctional couples in a new play set in suburban Chicago because they're too one-dimensional
While some say money is the root of all evil, others take the opposite view and this book might raise a snort from those who control so much of it.
In his foreword to this book Dennis Skinner rightly describes Smillie as one of the great names of the labour movement, a man who never did anything for personal ambition but only for the sake of others, particularly his beloved miners.
Christopher Grieve - or Hugh MacDiarmid, the pseudonym by which he is best known - made his mark on every aspect of Scottish culture during the 20th century.
Maximilien Robespierre was a polarising figure in the French revolution and he remains a subject of deep division among the French and historians.
Trotsky was a tragic figure of mythical proportions.
First published in 1961, this is a timely reprint given its interpretation of the basic trends of market expansion, territorial conquest and war throughout US history.
The eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's intellectual prowling is like that of a tiger. Invisible in the tall grass of his Leeds retirement, he attentively watches events unfold and at times leaps with enviable precision, giving his prey no chance of eluding the challenge.
As capitalism convulses in its present crisis, there has been a noticeable surge in the publishing world to reprint fictional reflections of previous similar episodes of greed and irrationality.
It is 50 years since John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature and he would have applauded this book, which will surely be recognised as the seminal work on the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers (UFW).