Issue section: Reviews
Andrew Sernatinger reviews a new edition of the 1982 classic Teamster Rank and File, an in-depth study of the rank-and-file movement at Local 208 in Los Angeles, offering a prescient critique of the TDU’s electoralism.
David Finkel criticizes Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies’ book on the war in Ukraine, which minimizes the voices of left-wing Ukrainians and antiwar Russian dissidents, and obscures Putin’s annexationism as the cause of the war.
This short memoir charts the path of a forty-year-old Ukrainian writer and journalist who volunteers for military service days after Russia invades on February 24, 2022. He reaches this decision much to his own surprise while fleeing Kiev with his
Brian Jones reviews Brian Kwoba’s biography of Hubert Harrison, a radical and socialist Black intellectual in early twentieth-century Harlem.
Brian Ward recommends Brian Jones’ book Black History Is for Everyone, an essential resource on Black history as a vital part of collective human story for all.
Peter G. Prontzos positively reviews Eleanor Finley’s book on Murray Bookchin’s ideas on social ecology and their application in Rojava.
The genocidal Israeli assault on Gaza since October 7, 2023, is the latest development in the ongoing process of dispossession and erasure aimed at Palestinians since the Nakba of 1947–48. People around the world have mobilized in solidarity with Palestine
We are told that to change the future, we need to understand the past. In Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza, Wasim Said compels us to witness, feel, and understand the present to change the now.
Judy Cox reviews David Camfield’s book Red Flags, a critical examination of authoritarianism in the Actually Existing Socialist societies.
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Sarah Jaffe’s book From the Ashes, a reflection on grief, care and healing in struggles against capitalism.
Stephen Shalom critically reviews Walden Bello’s autobiography Global Battlefields, which covers Bello’s political and intellectual contributions in the Philippines over the past fifty years.
Peter Drucker positively reviews Alan Sears’ latest book Eros and Alienation, a theoretical contribution to queer Marxism.
Frieda Afary recommends Nancy Holmstrom’s From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View, an edited collection of her philosophical essays.
Roger Bybee recommends Arlie Hochschild’s latest book “Stolen Pride”, an ethnography of Trump-supporting rural poor community in Kentucky.
Hank Kennedy reviews Wilson and Keko’s Freedom Shall Prevail, a comic book on the life of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish freedom struggle.
Steve Early reviews two books about recent labour mobilizations in the US, emphasizing the centrality of rank-and-file militancy.
Dan Fischer reviews Ashley Dawson’s book “Environmentalism from Below”, on ecological struggles in the Global South that can lead global transformations.
David Renton reviews Shane Burley and Ben Lorber’s recent book, “Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism.”
Wayne Price reviews Rachel Maddow’s book on US fascism, which lacks a critical perspective on capitalist anti-communism as the cause of fascism.
John Marot critically reviews a collection of essays written by Communist dissidents in 1920-22 in opposition to the New Economic Policy, translated by Simon Pirani.
John Clarke recommends Oliver Kearns’ book “The Covert Colour Line,” on racism as the foundation of US and British intelligence agencies.
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