What Frantz Fanon can tell us about the West’s colonial war in Gaza The analysis of the pioneering anti-colonial writer is still relevant in today’s war in Gaza. The parallels between the Algeria liberation war and the West’s conduct today are many, writes JOE GILL
Thursday 27th Aug 2020 2020: Could this be the end of the era that began in 1979? Historical eras are hard to define, but our current moment feels like one of transition — although the destination is not yet clear, argues JOE GILL
Thursday 23rd Apr 2020 If coronavirus is a war Britain and America are losing The 'winners' so far are some of the losers of WW2 — Germany and Japan — and the industrialised nations of East Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and socialist China. If the West ever recovers, it will be changed forever, writes JOE GILL
BOOKS Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 BOOKS Deep state of anxiety Richard Norton-Taylor's book on the secret intelligence services raises worrying questions about their intentions and fitness for purpose, says JOE GILL
Fiction Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Fiction Foreigners by Ken Fuller Satire on expats in Asia leaves a sour taste
Interview Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Interview Much more than a museum piece HANNAH KHALIL talks to Joe Gill about her new play on the fraught history of Western interventions in Iraq
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review The biggest rip-off of them all The New Enclosure is a damning exposé of how public land is being sold off for private profit, says JOE GILL
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Chaos theory on the dark side JOE GILL recommends a book analysing the progression of global rivalry from a cold war to an information war
Interview Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Interview ‘No other band in the world is doing this’ ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER talks to Joe Gill about bringing the message of the 17th-century English revolution bang up to date in the Corbyn era with a unique mix of punk and early music
Thursday 13th Sep 2018 Tony Blair is a mercenary for Saudi and oil-gas interests. He can’t be taken seriously REMARKABLY, for an instigator of a war in Iraq that was declared illegal by the UN, former prime minister Tony Blair is still treated as an elder s
Book Review Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Book Review Labour the focus of magisterial reflection on Marx Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theoryby Mike Davis(Verso, £17.99)