Category: Culture & History
Throughout George Caffentzis’s poetry runs the desire for a different world and staunch refusal to compromise with the injustices of the past and the present.
At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems assembles George Caffentzis’s poetic output. The noted class-warrior, philosopher of money and work/energy, is now a published poet.
Netflix’ Adolescence is a flawed but powerfully crafted drama. The acting and particularly the dialogue is superb – its poignant, witty in places, and offers up a powerful evocation of working-class family life. The existential flaw in the program, however,
Saeed Rahnema analyzes the fall of Assad from a long-term historical perspective, and warns the threats posed by religious fundamentalism and the emboldened Turkish regime.
Nedjib Sidi Moussa analyzes contrasting reception of Richard Wright’s work in the French left, including criticism among the Communists and support among the Socialists.
Frank P. Walsh (1864–1939), a progressive defense lawyer from Kansas City and political ally of Woodrow Wilson, almost single handedly created a worker-friendly labor control system during World War I. Throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, U.S. politics were
Is the shock about this film that a civil war could happen in the modern US, the “exceptional” USA? Time to wake up, America. The film is not about a civil war, per se, as much as it is about war photographers
Bill Keach reviews Mark Steven’s book “Class War: A Literary History”, a wide-ranging account of uprisings of oppressed classes.
Wayne Price reviews Rachel Maddow’s book on US fascism, which lacks a critical perspective on capitalist anti-communism as the cause of fascism.
Daniel Johnson analyzes struggles over historical narratives in the US, and calls for renewal of history from below, against the right-wing censorship.
This August marks the two hundred thirty eighth anniversary of Shays’ Rebellion, an uprising of small-holding farmers and Revolutionary War veterans that shook the foundations of the young American Republic.
Jonas Marvin reviews Alexander Billet’s book “Shake the City,” which explores the role of music in social movements.
In this classic work, Rosa Luxemburg situates mass strikes at the center of revolutionary political dynamics.
Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg’s writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.
The views of Left and Right differ regarding the study of history. For the Right it is largely an exercise in building identity and loyalty, an exploration of what makes one’s nation and race, and therefore one’s self, special. For
Children at the Medem Sanatorium reading the Bund’s daily newspaper, the Folkstsaytung
Secularism and enlightenment swept through the insular world of East European Jewry, starting in the middle of the 19th century, and ending in the 20th with the
Secularism and enlightenment swept through the insular world of East European Jewry, starting in the middle of the 19th century, and ending in the 20th with the
John Marot defends the interpretation of Lenin’s April Theses as the pivotal turning point for the Bolsheviks, countering Lars Lih’s and Eric Blanc’s historical narrative.
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
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