It would appear that human flesh is back on the menu this month with Clemens von Wedemeyer's faux docu-anthropology at the Barbican http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8903 and a new book on the history of cannibalism reviewed in the LRB. A more culturally entertaining response to the credit crunch than bank bailouts and trader suicides, I expect there may be more of this to come e.g. A Popular History of Cannibalism from Below must surely follow.

By supporting NGOs, is the left suppressing a radical politics in Haiti and elsewhere?

Paolo Virno’s latest book contends that the question of human nature – good or evil? – is suddenly topical, thanks to ‘immaterial labour’. But, if true, how useful is this insight?, asks Nina Power

Finally Got the News Saturday, June 28, 8pm, £0 The Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, Elephant & Castle, London SE17 Rare screening of documentary (dir. Steward Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner) on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, from wildcat movement to formidable independent workers organization, inside and outside the auto factories of insurgent turn-of-the-'70s Detroit.

No other group has had such a catalysing influence on the new political forms and tactics espoused by the anti-globalisation movement, yet there has been too little critical analysis of the Zapatistas' politics and the relationship of western activists to their guerilla icons. Melancholic Troglodytes review Mihalis Mentinis' book Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and What It Means for Radical Politics and discovers some ugly nationalist features behind the mask