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The author of the seminal and groundbreaking work, Marx and Human Nature, was not without his faults.

Tate Modern, London. Until 9 March 2014

In this, his 50th anniversary year, Doctor Who has become a contested figure. The right think he’s one of them. The Daily Mail, for example, sees him as an embodiment of “traditional values”. “What finer example of a man – brave, reflective, with a keen sense of heroic duty – is there than Doctor Who?”...

Presented by Grayson Perry

Director John Pilger

Director Clio Barnard

Lloyd Bradley, Published by Serpent's Tail at £12.99

Can the working class in less developed countries lead a socialist revolution, even when it is not a majority in society? Leon Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution provides, under certain circumstances, a positive answer to this question. Trotsky’s theory was one of the great developments in Marxism. The birth of the theory of permanent revolution...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon, First published 1932

Mark Blyth, Oxford University Press £14.99

Alan Wieder, Monthly Review Press, £14.79

Oscar Martinez, Verso, £14.99