Jason Burke
@jasonburke2.bsky.social
Author of The Revolutionists: the story of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s, Baillie Gifford shortlist, lots of nice reviews, out now https://shorturl.at/aLfVb. Apparently "veteran" foreign correspondent etc too. Oh, and a dad.
very very long, careful and clever review of The Revolutionists in the New Yorker .. which is pretty amazing
"A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left."
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"A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left."
t.co/mk6on0oGOz
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/the-revolutionists-jason-burke-book-review
t.co
February 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
very very long, careful and clever review of The Revolutionists in the New Yorker .. which is pretty amazing
"A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left."
t.co/mk6on0oGOz
"A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left."
t.co/mk6on0oGOz
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Finally got round to starting my birthday present, @jasonburke2.bsky.social ‘s Revolutionists. 100 pages in in two days and it’s excellent.
January 29, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Finally got round to starting my birthday present, @jasonburke2.bsky.social ‘s Revolutionists. 100 pages in in two days and it’s excellent.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Our Patreon supporters now have access to our latest episode with @jasonburke2.bsky.social about his remarkable book, The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, and they get their extra 15 minutes with Jason!
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Here's a fantastic Spotify playlist with some of the best music that features in The Revolutionists.
(yes the book is about terrorism, but it's also about the 70s, so there's a lot of tunes in it)
open.spotify.com/playlist/0NW...
(yes the book is about terrorism, but it's also about the 70s, so there's a lot of tunes in it)
open.spotify.com/playlist/0NW...
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
open.spotify.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Here's a fantastic Spotify playlist with some of the best music that features in The Revolutionists.
(yes the book is about terrorism, but it's also about the 70s, so there's a lot of tunes in it)
open.spotify.com/playlist/0NW...
(yes the book is about terrorism, but it's also about the 70s, so there's a lot of tunes in it)
open.spotify.com/playlist/0NW...
"The twenty-four-year-old gripping the Beretta 9mm pistol in his gloved hand had enjoyed many names in his short life ...."
read the rest (of this extract from #TheRevolutionists) on the early years of Carlos the Jckal here:
lithub.com/the-rise-of-...
read the rest (of this extract from #TheRevolutionists) on the early years of Carlos the Jckal here:
lithub.com/the-rise-of-...
The Rise of Carlos the Jackal, the Most Feared Terrorist of the 1970s
The twenty-four-year-old gripping the Beretta 9mm pistol in his gloved hand had enjoyed many names in his short life. To teasing classmates, he had been el Gordo or “the chubby one.” To…
lithub.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM
"The twenty-four-year-old gripping the Beretta 9mm pistol in his gloved hand had enjoyed many names in his short life ...."
read the rest (of this extract from #TheRevolutionists) on the early years of Carlos the Jckal here:
lithub.com/the-rise-of-...
read the rest (of this extract from #TheRevolutionists) on the early years of Carlos the Jckal here:
lithub.com/the-rise-of-...
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The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
am wildly pleased by big review of #TheRevolutionists in New York Times which says "timely, engaging" and other nice things
the book is published this week in US, the final moment of a sometimes hard but generally extraordinary 10 year journey
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
the book is published this week in US, the final moment of a sometimes hard but generally extraordinary 10 year journey
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
The Middle East Is on Fire. Who Lit the Match?
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:27 AM
am wildly pleased by big review of #TheRevolutionists in New York Times which says "timely, engaging" and other nice things
the book is published this week in US, the final moment of a sometimes hard but generally extraordinary 10 year journey
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
the book is published this week in US, the final moment of a sometimes hard but generally extraordinary 10 year journey
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
Am v pleased that @AppleBooksOfficial chose THE REVOLUTIONISTS as a #BestBooks of January.
"This gripping work of narrative history takes readers inside a decade when the rules of political violence were rewritten in real time" ... and you can find it here:
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"This gripping work of narrative history takes readers inside a decade when the rules of political violence were rewritten in real time" ... and you can find it here:
t.co/Y7MUwkWlEC
https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-revolutionists/id1739747833
t.co
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Am v pleased that @AppleBooksOfficial chose THE REVOLUTIONISTS as a #BestBooks of January.
"This gripping work of narrative history takes readers inside a decade when the rules of political violence were rewritten in real time" ... and you can find it here:
t.co/Y7MUwkWlEC
"This gripping work of narrative history takes readers inside a decade when the rules of political violence were rewritten in real time" ... and you can find it here:
t.co/Y7MUwkWlEC
ooh The Revolutionists is a Book of the Year in the Guardian, which is very nice to see.
"in it less for the Marxism than the mayhem" is a) a great phrase and b) true
"in it less for the Marxism than the mayhem" is a) a great phrase and b) true
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
ooh The Revolutionists is a Book of the Year in the Guardian, which is very nice to see.
"in it less for the Marxism than the mayhem" is a) a great phrase and b) true
"in it less for the Marxism than the mayhem" is a) a great phrase and b) true
this is great too, The Revolutionists a book of the year in list in BBC History Extra, one of my all time favourite magazines, thanks to Onyeka Nubia
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year
In the roster of laudable history books published in 2025, authors tackled topics as diverse as Gaza, Indian partition, extinction, medieval and Stuart monarchs – even historians themselves. Here, a p...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
this is great too, The Revolutionists a book of the year in list in BBC History Extra, one of my all time favourite magazines, thanks to Onyeka Nubia
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
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v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
oooh and The Revolutionists on the Economist books of the year list too. very exciting.
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
oooh and The Revolutionists on the Economist books of the year list too. very exciting.
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
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This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms
I am loving @jasonburke2.bsky.social’s new book. It’s superb, especially on the absurdity of some of the Europeans involved.
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms
I'll just leave this here ...
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms
I am loving @jasonburke2.bsky.social’s new book. It’s superb, especially on the absurdity of some of the Europeans involved.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'll just leave this here ...
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
thank you James. from you especially very much appreciated.
I am loving @jasonburke2.bsky.social’s new book. It’s superb, especially on the absurdity of some of the Europeans involved.
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
thank you James. from you especially very much appreciated.
v pleased to report that
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
v pleased to report that
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
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🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
An excellent idea .... am currently preparing a playlist for the US edition launch. Thank you Andrew.
Book alert klaxon. Hugely enjoying "The Revolutionists" by @jasonburke2.bsky.social. Pairs well with a soundtrack of @lukehaines.bsky.social's "Baader Meinhof" album. www.penguin.co.uk/books/440432...
The Revolutionists
Immersive, globe-spanning and full of detail and drama, The Revolutionists is an unprecedented account of a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.
In the 1970s, a network of radical extrem...
www.penguin.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
An excellent idea .... am currently preparing a playlist for the US edition launch. Thank you Andrew.
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v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war
A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war
A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals and to hang onto power. this will have consequences for any "peace" deal. My take here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals and to hang onto power. this will have consequences for any "peace" deal. My take here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
In 1982, a US president told Israel to end a war. The lessons from then are very relevant now. It's not the threat you fought that is the problem, but the one that is coming.
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A lasting peace between Israel and Palestine? We’ve heard that before – the result was more bloodshed | Jason Burke
In 1982, Ronald Reagan picked up the phone to Menachem Begin to tell him to end a war. There are lessons from history and we need to learn them, says Guardian international security correspondent Jaso...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In 1982, a US president told Israel to end a war. The lessons from then are very relevant now. It's not the threat you fought that is the problem, but the one that is coming.
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
like it or not, Netanyahu dominates Israeli politics, now as before. If anyone thinks the ceasefire is the endgame for a man who has been in power in Israel longer than David Ben Gurion, founding father, then think again ...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Yes Bibi, or no Bibi’: what does Gaza deal mean for Benjamin Netanyahu’s future?
Widespread support among Israelis for the ceasefire is unlikely to translate into votes for Likud, survey shows
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
like it or not, Netanyahu dominates Israeli politics, now as before. If anyone thinks the ceasefire is the endgame for a man who has been in power in Israel longer than David Ben Gurion, founding father, then think again ...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘First phase’ of ceasefire deal to end war in Gaza agreed by Israel and Hamas
Donald Trump announces all hostages will be released ‘very soon’ and Israel will withdraw troops to an agreed timeline
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...