Review of Bettina Aptheker’s recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s
Author: Martha Sonnenberg
Martha Sonnenberg, M.D. is a retired Infectious Disease physician and former CMO at a community hospital in Los Angeles. She currently lives in Walnut Creek, California.
The Imaginative Dialectic in the Novels of Victor Serge
A discussion of Victor Serge’s novels and how literature can enrich revolutionary socialist politics.
The Political Creativity of Sylvia Pankhurst
Socialists and feminists (and socialist feminists) can profoundly benefit from the legacy of Sylvia Pankhurst who is equally deserving of the contemporary attention given to Rosa Luxemburg and Alexandra Kollontai.
Medicare for All Is Not Enough
The Two Souls of Socialized Medicine
While Medicare for All may be a necessary first step toward change in healthcare, it cannot challenge the quality, or current culture and class basis, of the way contemporary healthcare is delivered.
Lysenko Comes to the CDC: Exploring the Relationship Between Science and Politics
The specter of Lysenko is haunting the CDC and the entire Trump administration, revealing that the perversion of science is as likely in a capitalist democracy as it is in a Stalinist state, and always with dire consequences.
The Power of Revolutionary Imagination
A review of Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World, Michael Lerner (University of California Press, 2019).
In 1923 the feminist Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai, wrote a letter to Russian socialist youth. This was a time when the . . .
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