book reviews
Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
September 21, 2020All Quiet on the Western Front has lost none of its power. It is an outstandingly sensitive depiction of the effect murderous warfare has on the human psyche. We still need books like this.
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Book review: Folk singers, the Communist Party, and the FBI, 1939-1956
September 18, 2020They were partisan. They chose sides. And their politics were well known, including to the FBI.
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‘Five Days, Five Nights’: Flight to freedom from fascist Portugal
September 16, 2020Álvaro Cunhal had a little secret. It was a good thing that he did.
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How Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
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‘Let Them Tremble’: So much of this history reads like right now
August 12, 2020Through the lives of six Communists, Tony Pecinovsky shows the CPUSA playing a leading, if often behind the scenes role in every main arena of mass struggle of the 20th century's second half.
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