The Battleground / 20 Feb 2023
Retro World
The Battleground’s Spring Books List
Protests and war belong together. Not because they reflect each other but because conflict stirs the pot. Not just about itself but everything else.(...)
Verso
John Foster / 08 Jul 2022
Stupid and Dangerous
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
Boris Johnson has been a dead man walking for months. His resignation has been more of a relief than a shock.(...)
The Battleground / 21 Mar 2022
Never Mind the News
The Battleground’s Spring Books List
It's easier than ever to lose sight of books. With global crises overtaking our lives every couple of years now, to read anything other than news gets harder by the day.(...)
John Foster / 14 Jan 2022
Communist Artificial Intelligence
Work Without the Worker, by Phil Jones
The robots are coming to take our jobs. Well, perhaps not universally. Truth be told, not everybody thinks it’s a bad thing.(...)
John Foster / 10 Dec 2021
Postmodern Means Today
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, by Stuart Jeffries
It’s a problem that won’t go away. Separating postmodernism from socialism, particularly the “cultural Marxists” of the Frankfurt School, remains extremely difficult.(...)
John Foster / 28 May 2021
Rage Against the Machines
Breaking Things at Work, by Gavin Mueller
Technology is so thoroughly imbricated in our lives that questioning it has become taboo. Particularly on the left, where it's synonymous with the emancipation of labour.(...)
The Battleground / 19 Jun 2020
Think Difference
The Battleground’s Summer Book List
2020 will be remembered as the year race broke. Not in a popular sense, to refer to the 1991 Dave Markey documentary about American punk. Rather, as the year that diversity became a subject of crisis, again.(...)
John Foster / 10 Apr 2020
Born to Lose
Joe Biden and the Democrats
When Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination earlier this week, the leftist finally gave Joe Biden what he's been after for four decades: a run at the presidency. (...)
The Battleground / 03 Jan 2020
Reading Europe
The Battleground Guide to Winter Books
Journalists don't read enough books. Blame it on the 24-hour news cycle. If it's not a newspaper, it's social media. Or, if they're trying to disconnect, it's TV.(...)