Books
Álvaro Cunhal’s prison novel ‘The Six-Pointed Star’—A chat with the translator
February 26, 2021The English translator of the latest Cunhal/Tiago novel shares the background to this epic story of life behind bars in fascist Portugal.
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in
February 17, 2021This book of essays celebrating the CPUSA's 100 years is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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A pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
December 22, 2020Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...
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New book explores and praises Cuban health care for the people
September 14, 2020Don Fitz’s book brings together information on Cuba’s Revolution and Cuba’s brand of health care; it communicates a vision of progressive social change. Clearly written and easily read, it deserves a wide audience.
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