Culture
The Paris Commune: ‘In future we will turn the guns on you’
May 28, 2021The Communards, who knew nothing but violence and exploitation, wished for peace and spared their enemy. Yet history necessitates the unequivocal assumption of political power under penalty of defeat.
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Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'
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‘The Six-Pointed Star,’ novel by Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal) in adept English
May 26, 2021The second in a series of English translations of the novels of Portuguese anti-fascist fighter Alvaro Cunhal.
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Artist Albrecht Dürer, born 1471, champion of the peasant class
May 19, 2021Albrecht Dürer was born 550 years ago, on May 21, 1471, during the Renaissance, a time of upheaval, that rang in the early modern age.
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Mike Gold, ‘Jews Without Money’ author, gets overdue recognition in new bio
May 18, 2021As biographers are wont to do, Patrick Chura exposes the reader to the days of his subject, offering not only facts and analysis, but the ability to see these through Gold’s eyes—to feel the sweat and...
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