Category: Culture & History
Thomas Harrison recounts history and an experience of the Independent Socialist Club in the 1960s Berkeley, which later became the International Socialists (IS) nationwide.
Anne Mackie recounts history of UPSurge, a rank-and-file movement of UPS workers in the Teamsters in the 1970s, in which she actively participated.
75 Years After Partition: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh offers a timely, interdisciplinary intervention into the cultural memory, historiography, and ideological reproduction of the 1947 Partition of British India and the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh. Spanning cinema, literature, textbooks,
Historian Ellen Schrecker discusses how the repression against students and workers in higher education today are in many ways worse than McCarthyism.
Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran and its people, has died at the age of
Latin America historian Greg Grandin, always aware of the subtexts of events and processes, combines a literary and cultural flair that makes America América: A New History of the New World both readable and enjoyable. His book is a carefully
Brian Jones reviews Brian Kwoba’s biography of Hubert Harrison, a radical and socialist Black intellectual in early twentieth-century Harlem.
A song honoring Refaar Alareer, a Palestinian writer and poet in Gaza, murdered by the Israeli military in 2023.
Paul Le Blanc recommends Douglas Greene’s latest book In Stalin’s Shadow, a critique of the new wave of Stalinist revisionism.
The late Italian Marxist Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend exalts and even deifies the long-ruling Soviet despot Joseph Stalin (1924–1953). Indeed, the text’s cover and inside cover art strikingly depict Stalin with a halo, and
Lipstadt is a died-in-the-wool Zionist and that’s completely colored and warped her thinking.
These days, when criticism of Israel is labeled by many as “antisemitism,” it is an effective antidote and enlightening to read a 112- page booklet full of documented and thoroughly researched and well- supported criticism of Israel by a scholar, a professor of history at the University of Montreal, and a devout Jew.
Judy Cox reviews David Camfield’s book Red Flags, a critical examination of authoritarianism in the Actually Existing Socialist societies.
Julius Jacobson was in his early thirties when he penned “Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy” for the May 4, 1953, issue of Labor Action, a publication ofthe Workers Party, founded in 1940 as a result of a split within the Socialist
Utilizing the latest available sources, Kevin Anderson explores the late Marx’s theory on the role of non-capitalist agrarian communal villages in sparking a social revolution.
Javier Sethness critiques authoritarian tendencies in Marxism, and calls for a politics based on anarcho-populism such as the Russian narodniks.
In this 1916 essay, Ukrainian Marxist Lev Yurkevych develops a vision for the liberation of Ukraine, against multiple imperialist powers.
Alan Wald reviews Andrew Hartman’s latest book Karl Marx in America, a comprehensive history of Marx’s influence in the United States from his times to the present.
Christopher Ford introduces the political thoughts and activities of Lev Yurkevych, a prominent Ukrainian Marxist in the early 20th century.
Sam Farber argues that arbitariness is a key feature of authoritarianism, and in particular of the Trump regime.
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