Mike Marqusee is the author of Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, Anyone But England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket and, most recently, the superb If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew. Here he introduces his Top Ten Books. Mike says, “Herewith my TTT! It’s provisional, of course; ask me again in a few months and I’ll come up with a different list. But I hope this one points people to some good reading.”

Launching an online petition on the Downing Street website is not as easy as we might hope, writes Charles Thomson.

Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt with a provocative review of ‘Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority’, ‘Do it Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World’, ‘Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms’, exploring the critical urgency and shortcomings of the creative dissent they express.