ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Much to gain from A World to Win
A new book on Marx draws some tendentious conclusions, but it's an invaluable addition to the literature on the great man, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
by Sven-Eric Liedman
(Verso, £28)
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN’S new biography of Karl Marx aims to provide the reader with a nuanced and detailed account of the intellectual giant’s life and thought.
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MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London