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Gavin O'Toole
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Books / 28 August 2025
A martyr to the environmental cause
28 August 2025

GAVIN O’TOOLE examines the fatal relationship between environmental crimes and politics in Brazil and the inspiration provided by Indigenous people

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Books / 8 August 2025
The Cuban interregnum
8 August 2025

GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context

FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE: Regina Jose Galindo, “¿Quien puede bo
Book Review / 10 December 2024
I create, therefore I am
10 December 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE explores the resistance expressed by central American artists to their own erasure by US imperialist policies 
CHAVEZ FOREVER: A rally by Chavistas in Caracas supporting t
Book Review / 28 August 2024
The liberating mission of Chavismo set to continue
28 August 2024
Here’s an antidote to the Venezuela election-induced tantrums of Western elites. GAVIN O’TOOLE reviews it
SHORT-LIVED AUTONOMY: Thousands of hippies gather on ‘Hipp
Book Review / 21 May 2024
The neoliberal jackboot stamping on a human face
21 May 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds an analysis of culture that explains why political conflicts today are focused more on values and identity than the economy and social questions
PLACE OF DISCORD: The UN General Assembly has adopted, on Oc
Books / 15 March 2024
Throwing stones in glass houses
15 March 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE observes that the call for a new international framework for conflict mediation is fatally marred by a partisan position on the Isreali-Gazan conflict
WORKERS' VOICE: The 1936–1937 Flint sit-down strike at the
Book Review / 16 February 2024
The case for council communism
16 February 2024
The argument that labour parties, supported by conservative trade unions, are instrumental to capitalism has contemporary resonance, suggests GAVIN O’TOOLE 
RECALCITRANT CONSERVATIVE ELITES: Supporters of opposition p
Book Review / 29 January 2024
What is to be done?
29 January 2024
GAVIN O’TOOLE surveys the literature that provides compelling analysis of resistance to neoliberal hegemony
School lesson in Challa, a village on Isla del Sol, on the b
Book Review / 25 January 2024
Lessons in decolonisation
25 January 2024
Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia, and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
TIPNIS marchers arrive in La Paz, Bolivia, 19/10/2011. Isibo
Books / 3 September 2023
Divide and rule
3 September 2023
GAVIN O'TOOLE applauds the argument that multicultural policies, aimed to empower indigenous peoples, are a smokescreen for their exploitation
Transporting goods on the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Vietn
Books / 4 August 2023
Many Vietnams
4 August 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an account of the post WWII global movement that allied socialist countries against US imperialism
PEAS IN A POD: El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, of Palest
Book Review / 16 July 2023
Finding the cracks in globalisation
16 July 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an outstanding analysis of global elites that punctures the illusion of their international immutability
More than 300 protesters demonstrate against the poll tax ou
Books / 9 June 2023
Hope lies with the grassroots
9 June 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds a timely reminder of a past victory, and its clear message that leadership is not to be found among the Labour right 
STUFFY AUTHORITARIANS: Charles I by Anthony Van Dyck, 1635;
Book Review / 3 May 2023
The upside of regicide
3 May 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE relishes an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England
Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally enters Emancipat
Book Review / 17 March 2023
Disunited states 
17 March 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE explores how US federalism has been exploited by Republicans, but remains the best arena for progressive solutions
RED-LINE: Royal College of Nursing (RCN) pickets outside Kin
Books / 19 February 2023
Required reading for the Labour party
19 February 2023
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an insightful and grounded analysis of the market as a political tool of neoliberalism
IMPERIAL IDIOCY NEWEST BATTLEGROUND: Ukrainian soldiers fire
BOOKS / 27 December 2022
A uniquely incisive take on reality
27 December 2022
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a book that analyses current affairs in an accessible way that speaks to readers without fancy abstraction, just blunt common sense
Culture / 23 November 2022
The best books of 2022 with Gavin O'Toole
23 November 2022
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR: Boris Johnson pictured in front of Cl
BOOKS / 23 October 2022
The corrosive megalomania of UK power elites
23 October 2022
There is a disturbing circularity about Britain’s decline, a form of costume drama time loop so inescapable it could almost be the stuff of fantasy, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
NO USE FOR CONSENSUS: Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng
Book Review / 25 September 2022
Understanding the dialectic that is at work
25 September 2022
A valuable tool for comprehending which way the momentum is swinging the pendulum of British politics – and why, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
RELENTLESS VISUAL ASSAULT: An image of Ukraine president Vol
Book Review / 12 August 2022
When the smartphone replaces the rifle
12 August 2022
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a book that analyses how a smartphone is creating combatants of us all, at least in terms of how wars are understood and represented
Russian ground support Sukhoi Su-25 at Latakia, Syria on Oct
Book Review / 19 June 2022
Russia in the labyrinth of Middle East politics
19 June 2022
This is a concise and timely handbook to Russia policy in the Middle East, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
Kit de Waal joins online fellow writers Paul McVeigh and Don
Report / 6 June 2022
Class prejudice holds back working-class talent
6 June 2022
Radical changes are required in the publishing industry for working-class writers to overcome the multiple challenges they face in a sector from which they are largely excluded, posits GAVIN O’TOOLE
Book Review / 10 April 2022
The Socialist Ideal in the Labour Party: from Attlee to Corbyn
10 April 2022
reviewed by GAVIN O'TOOLE
PLANET ESCHER: tailor-made diversion for stressful times
Book Review / 17 March 2022
Take your mind off Armageddon
17 March 2022
GAVIN O’TOOLE is taken by a book that offers a tactile source of pleasure that is just as addictive as using a smartphone
BEING WELSH: Suzanne Packer in the BBC drama Casualty; Colin
Book Review / 13 March 2022
Placing a finger on Welshness
13 March 2022
A fascinating and timely collection of essays on identity, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE