Book Review
“Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson and global freedom fight
November 8, 2013In Gerald Horne's new book, "Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle," we are privy to William L. Patterson's transformation from well-to-do lawyer to a revolutionary.
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Finding her authentic voice
October 9, 2013Several stories reflect te author's gnawing awareness of severe class and ethnic disparities in her adopted land.
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Book review: “Cuba and its Neighbors – Democracy in Motion”
October 4, 2013"Cuba and its Neighbors - Democracy in Motion" enables the reader to broaden his or her understanding of Cuban political life.
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Book review: Moshe Lewin’s “The Soviet Century”
September 3, 2013About Stalinism, Lewin strongly makes the point that while Stalin's tenure from the mid 1920s to the early 1950s represented a significant portion of Soviet history it did not represent all of it.
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Inequality in U.S. today is similar to 1929 and Gilded Age
June 11, 2013Author Sam Pizzigati says that inequity and plutocracy are so bad that the U.S. now looks like a combination of 1929 - before the Great Depression - and the Gilded Age, before the Progressive Era.
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