The blurb on the book’s back cover –“Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime”– might be stretching the attention span of most readers but it fairly hits the mark when claiming this history of the Soviet Union is not a book easily forgotten.   Sean Sheehan   The main […]

This is a collective and anonymous testimony of former political prisoners detained in Coronda, Santa Fe, one of the maximum-security prisons in Argentina during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983).   Sergio Ferrari   It was first published in 2003 under the title “Del otro lado de la mirilla” (“On the […]

As a young child sitting close to the front of a bus with my grandfather in West Cork I was quietly informed that the elderly person who had just boarded was Tom Barry.   Sean Sheehan   He looked like another ordinary old man to me and his name did […]

Victor Serge’s life was hugely eventful and his critical mind, without being bound by a priori opinions of a narrow kind, took note of what was happening around him.   Sean Sheehan   He was drawn to anarchist thought and but when the October Revolution occurred in 1917 he understood […]