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Reviews

Here are some reviews I've written over the years:

 Jerome Teelucksingh's Labour and Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago

 Ian Angus’s A Redder Shade of Green

 Anthony Maingot's Race, Ideology, and the Decline of Caribbean Marxism

 Jane Franklin’s Cuba and The U.S. Empire: A chronological history

 Srdja Popovic’s Blueprint for Revolution

 John Marsh’s Class Dismissed: Why we cannot teach or learn our way out of inequality.

 Paul Kahn’s Political Theology: Four new chapters on concept of sovereignty

 Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money: A financial history of the world

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