Book Review
BOOK REVIEW A Red Family
May 10, 2009The 2002 death of former Communist Party activist and longtime civil rights/labor activist Junius Scales concluded one of America's most distinctive lives. Convicted of a felony in the 1950s solely for his party membership, Scales appealed...
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Rekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 12, 2008BOOK REVIEW The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Edited by William A. Pelz Institute of Working Class History, 2008 $17.50, paperback, 205 pp Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), one of America’s most famous...
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Rekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 5, 2008Title: The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Publisher: Institute of Working Class History, 2008, 205 pages Author: Edited by William A. Pelz, Introduction by Howard Zinn Correction: An earlier version of this...
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Victor Perlo’s penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy
August 1, 2007U.S. military interventionism is the subject of numerous commentaries by the author. Perlo noted its continuous use under different administrations and showed its direct connection to the military-industrial complex.
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Einstein in the hood. BOOK REVIEW: Einstein on Race and Racism.
February 24, 2006Princeton was a southern town in northern gown. Segregation of Blacks from whites was widely practiced and enforced. Einstein, a German-born Jew and naturalized American citizen, was acutely aware of what racism is and does, and...
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