book reviews
Compelling account of inspirational Black activist Claudia Jones in new booklet
January 8, 2021David Horsley’s focus is on Jones’s life in advancing class, race, and gender resistance to the racist system of imperialism in what George Jackson called “the belly of the beast.”
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New book: Indonesia was model for anti-communist massacres, U.S. complicity
January 7, 2021In many places, to whisper “Jakarta” or scrawl the word on public surfaces served as a warning to activists.
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Book preview: Gus Hall and the Communist campus tour of 1962
November 13, 2020After over a decade of political repression, Communists seemed poised to make a comeback.
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New graphic book helps to ‘Unrig’ our broken election system
October 30, 2020A better articulation of the class dynamics at work in our political system would have added to Newman and O’Connor’s overall analysis of our broken democracy, but this is still a very valuable book.
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Last of Communist Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novels sees the light in Ireland
October 20, 2020O’Flaherty always wrote from the point of view of the ordinary people, fishermen, peasants, workers. His last novel was no different.
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