Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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‘Mute Compulsion’: A Danish Marxist examines the economic power of capital
June 14, 2024Why does capitalism not simply break down on its own internal contradictions?
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‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’
May 17, 2024When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a “necessary evil” in 2020, he made two crucial admissions.
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New book: U.S. ‘national security’ born from Anti-Asian racism and white supremacist ideology
December 19, 2023Menace to Empire shows how the racist foreign policy frameworks that drove U.S. operations and policies in the early twentieth century continue to shape today’s foreign and domestic conditions.
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Hands off the Solomon Islands!
December 8, 2023The U.S. and Australia target the Solomon Islands in their campaign against China.
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Before he was a Bolshevik: Claude McKay’s radicalization is subject of new book
November 22, 2023McKay spoke for a new generation of Black radicals, as distinguished historian Winston James shows.
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‘Minor detail’: Israeli military atrocities exposed, in the form of a novel
November 13, 2023Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Details reproduces the ordinariness, the bland everyday routine of Israeli military occupation on every page.
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Tactical questions abound in new book, ‘A People’s History of Grand Rapids’
November 8, 2023The author has rescued lost voices in the history of this Michigan city, but do his anarchist leanings lead him astray?
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Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
August 24, 2023Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.
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