An excellent investigative work detailing the efforts of successive neoliberal governments, from Thatcher to Blair to Cameron, to promote a dangerous and insidious individualism that puts the woes of the working class squarely on the shoulders of those who suffer from them, that her than the governments and corporations that caused them.

With council housing being sold off, unions being smashed, skilled labour industries being closed and shipped offshore, the war on drugs focusing solely on working class communities, etc, the bourgeoisie have been waging class war on the proletariat for decades, while simultaneously claiming "we're all middle class now!" They then mock the working class as 'chavs' and claim they are all single teenage mothers on drugs and welfare, dangerous, lazy, racist and working on supermarket checkouts in ripoff Burberry caps, as if that's the worst crime of the century.

This has allowed far right parties such as Ukip and the BNP to claim they give a shit about the working class, and aim the vitriol away from the capitalists and towards immigrants.

Whilst Owen Jones is no revolutionary, and some of his suggested reforms are patently ridiculous ('put one worker representative in each boardroom to embarrass the CEO into not giving himself such a huge bonus'???), some of his ideas, such as consumers societies, have echoes of Lenin's control measures from his pamphlet "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It"!

An excellent and useful text collecting excerpts from Trotsky's published works and letters, outlining the main points needed to understand the phenomenon of fascism and to combat it before it fully gets its grips into the fabric of a nation.

Trotsky had learned from the rise of Mussolini in Italy and could see the same thing happening in Germany, predicting the unfolding disaster while others turned a blind eye.

Only a strong working class movement combating fascists on the streets can stop their movement taking hold!

Brilliantly and clearly explains Karl Marx's philosophical, economic, and sociological ideas, and sets them in the context of Marx's own life and revolutionary struggles and the the philosophical and economic ideas that had come before him. Also succinctly explains why Marx's ideas are still relevant today.

This started really well, but then spent a long time making me wonder where it was going, which was sort of good because I kept reading to find out, but bad because it felt a bit aimless. But then the plot threads met up and it got good again. There are parts that felt a bit forced and repetitive, but it only got annoying near the end. I actually really liked the descriptions of primaries technology and how it worked. I'm not sure how historically accurate the gender politics were (I don't think ideas like love or monogamous marriage or even such strongly segmented gender roles would have come until much later in the development of human productive technology and class divided society) but it was a fascinating exploration none the less.

Absolutely by far the greatest comic I have ever read. Every aspect of it is just beautiful. The art is just so gorgeous I just can't. And comic book heroes who are pacifists? Yes please!
Can I tell you about all the cool and imaginative things in it? Like a royal house of posh spoilt tv headed robots? Or a forrest that grows spaceships? Or a big cat that acts as a lie detector? Or ANYTHING in this amazing book???
I love love love love it!

Outstanding book. Charts Black struggles through the history of the US, focussing on the conditions that led to he rise of the current #BlackLivesMatter movement. It also draws lessons from other Black and anti-racism struggles to suggest what form the struggle needs to take to achieve true Black liberation. (Spoilers: it involves creating an organised, working class movement to smash capitalism)