Trump's victory and the necessity of solidarity
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor interviewed by Ashley Smith
Issues
Spring 2017
Issue contents
Top story
Editorials
Features
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We got Trumped
Charlie Post
Reviews
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The Communist roots of the “Black Cultural Front”
Megan Behrent reviews The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington
Upcoming Articles
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Choosing or refusing to take sides in an era of right-wing populism
Neil Davidson -
Corporate plunder vs. Native resistance
Ragina Johnson -
Fidel Castro's legacy and Cuba's future
Samuel Farber interviewed by Paul D'Amato -
Resistance and reaction in the time of Trump
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Sanders and the Left
Lance Selfa -
The driving forces of the Russian Revolution
Karl Radek -
The Front Populaire and the making of the French Communist Party (1920–1962)
Selim Nadi -
We have always been here
Sara Rougeau
Upcoming Reviews
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Uncovering Boston's radical history
Keegan O'Brien reviews A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel -
Terror in the French Revolution and today
Samuel Farber reviews In Defense of the Terror: LIberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich -
The anti-philosophical Marxism of Karl Korsch
Paul Le Blanc reviews Karl Marx by Karl Korsch -
The progressive '80s?
Laura Durkay reviews Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman -
The New Deal and Little Steel
Tim Goulet reviews The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America by Ahmed White -
A Marxist challenge to postmodernist Orientalism
Pranav Jani reviews The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe by Vasant Kaiwar -
A Russian revolutionary in the Bronx
Alex Steinberg reviews Trotsky in New York: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Winter 2016-17
Issue contents
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Sapronov and the Russian Revolution
Yurii Colombo
Features
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The critical communism of Antonio Labriola
Doug Enaa Greene -
Austerity, neoliberalism, and the Indian working class
Snehal Shingavi -
The legacy of Louis Althusser
Andrew Ryder -
Standing up to the Zionist backlash against BDS
Bill Mullen -
Legacies of colonialism in Africa
Lee Wengraf -
Disability and the Soviet Union: Advances and retreats
Keith Rosenthal
Interviews
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"A sense of hope and the possibility of solidarity"
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz interviewed by Ragina Johnson and Brian Ward -
Islamic fundamentalism, the Arab Spring, and the Left
Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Ashley Smith
Reviews
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From “waste people” to “white trash”
Eric Kerl reviews White Trash: the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg -
Defending our right to criticize Israel
Dorian Bon reviews Uncivil Rights: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita -
Knocking down straw figures
Ian Angus reviews Anthropocene or Capitalocene: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism by Jason Moore -
Have the Democrats evolved?
Paul Heideman reviews Listen, Liberal: or: Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank -
Giving voice to the Syrian Revolution
Yasser Munif reviews Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
Upcoming Articles
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Austerity, neoliberalism, and the Indian working class
Snehal Shingavi
Fall 2016
Issue contents
Top story
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Disability and the Russian Revolution
Keith Rosenthal
Editorials
Features
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After Brexit
Neil Davidson -
World economy: The return of crisis
Joel Geier and Lee Sustar -
From "political revolution" to lesser-evilism
Lance Selfa -
Imperialist feminism
Deepa Kumar
Interviews
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The roots of ISIS
Anand Gopal -
Class struggle in China
Hao Ren and Fan Gang interviewed by Dennis Kosuth
Debates
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Althusser, ideology, and Stalinism
Jordan Humphries
Reviews
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Revolution besieged
Amy Muldoon reviews Year One of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge -
Voices of workers' resistance in China
Charlie Hore reviews China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance by Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li
Summer 2016
Issue contents
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The multiple crises of neoliberal capitalism and the need for a global working class response
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
Features
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Magonismo and the roots of revolutionary internationalism
Justin Akers Chacón -
Marxism in Noir
Alan Wald -
Socialism in the air
Lance Selfa -
Che Guevara's political relevance today
Samuel Farber -
Quebec's wave of resistance
Alain Savard
Interviews
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The Marikana massacre and the contradictions of South Africa's "nonracial" capitalism
Interview with Rehad Desai and Jim Nichol
Reviews
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Understanding the world in order to change it
William Keach reviews The Meaning of Marxism: (updated edition) by Paul D'Amato -
Workers of the digital world, unite!
Brian Lenzo reviews Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age by Ursula Huws -
Climate Change
Bill Crane reviews Fossil Capitalism: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm -
Challening the narrative of working-class powerlessness
Kyle Brown reviews Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class by Immanuel Ness -
The ecosocialist imperative
Hannah Holleman reviews Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Löwy -
An overlooked figure in the council communist movement
Robin Hurlstone reviews Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Gary Roth -
Exploding the post-racial myth
Haley Pessin reviews From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -
Majorities, minorities, and revolutionary tactics
Jennifer Roesch reviews To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 edited by John Riddell -
Arming the fourth wave
Haley Swenson reviews Women and Socialism (revised and updated edition): Class, Race and Capital by Sharon Smith
Spring 2016
Issue contents
Top story
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The roots of the Black Panther Party
Donna Murch interviewed by Sherry Wolf
Editorials
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100 issues of the International Socialist Review
Paul D'Amato
Features
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Reflections on our experience with Syriza
Antonis Davanellos -
The asymmetric world order
Ashley Smith -
Anti-imperial Marxism
Eric Blanc -
Towards a revolutionary socialist party
Duncan Hallas -
Lenin and Bukharin on imperialism
Phil Gasper -
Black awakening in Obama's America
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Reviews
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Bureaucracy and revolution
Ian Birchall reviews Trotsky and the Problem of the Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas Twiss -
A bacchanalia of greed, corruption, and violence
Helen Redmond reviews No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and War Through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal -
Revolution through the ages
Geoff Bailey reviews We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions by Neil Davidson -
A new window on the radicalism of W. E. B. Du Bois
Paul Heideman reviews UnAmerican: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution by Bill Mullen -
The uneven and combined development of world capitalism
Ashley Smith reviews How the West Came to Rule:: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu -
A Marxist theory of women’s oppression
Jessie Muldoon reviews Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory by Lise Vogel -
Of science, mysticism, and metaphysical chatter
Clifford D. Conner reviews How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser
Winter 2015-16
Issue contents
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The Left after Syriza
Antonis Davanellos interviewed by Ahmed Shawki
Editorials
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From slowdown to slump?
Lee Sustar
Features
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A workers’ International at a turning point
John Riddell -
A school of revolutionary strategy
John Riddell and Mike Taber -
Knowledge and politics across the North/South divide
Tom Lewis and Sandra Sousa -
Inequality and social crisis in Europe
Roland Pfefferkorn -
Europe’s refugee crisis
Nicole Colson -
The end of the “Golden Decade”
Marcelo Yunes
Reviews
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Slavery, capitalism, and imperialism
Sandy Boyer reviews The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist; Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert; River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson; and The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 by Calvin Schermerhorn -
Conflating faith, freedom, and free enterprise
Tim Goulet reviews One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse -
Setting the standard for racial justice organizing
Haley Pessin reviews SNCC: The New Abolitionists by Howard Zinn -
The battle over the meaning of World War I
Axel Fair-Schulz reviews The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark and Der Große Krieg: Die Welt 1914–1918 by Herfried Münkler -
The early years of US Communism
Sarah Grey reviews The Communist International and US Communism, 1919–1929 by Jacob Zumoff -
The roots of the deep state
Joe Cleffie reviews Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Formation of the Modern State, 1789–1848 by Adam Zamoyski -
Revolutionary parliamentarism?
Todd Chretien reviews Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both by August H. Nimtz and Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both by August H. Nimtz -
The rise and fall of Syriza
Aaron Amaral reviews Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth by Kevin Ovenden -
Althusser’s theory of ideology
Andrew Ryder reviews On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser
Fall 2015
Issue contents
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Educating for austerity
Nancy Welch
Features
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LGBT politics after marriage
Colin Wilson -
Unite and fight?
Sherry Wolf -
A storm in New Orleans
Kristian Williams -
The end of the “Golden Decade”
Marcelo Yunes -
The political economy of student loans
Gary Lapon -
Turning point in Greece
Paul D'Amato -
Podemos and the Left in Spain
Tom Lewis
Debates
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Race, surveillance, empire
Arun Kundnani and Deepa Kumar -
Race, class, and capitalism
Tithi Bhattacharya and Lance Selfa
Reviews
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Exploring the national security state
Mukund Rathi reviews No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald -
The political development of Antonio Gramsci
Joe Cleffie reviews A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908–1926 by Antonio Gramsci -
The new planet rock
Alex Billet reviews The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana and Nate Marshall -
Triumph, disarray, and defeat
John Riddell reviews The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents by Ben Fowkes -
The beginnings of a revolutionary process
Lance Selfa reviews The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar -
Lessons for today’s struggles
Haley Pessin reviews The Black Revolution on Campus by Martha Biondi
Summer 2015
Issue contents
Top story
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Origins and delusions of green growth
Gareth Dale
Features
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Rereading Rosmer
Ian Birchall -
The workers’ government debate in the Communist International
Jennifer Roesch -
India’s Daughter
Tithi Bhattacharya -
A new left rising?
Manuel Garí
Interviews
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Institutional imperatives and neoliberal madness
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
Debates
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Race, surveillance, and empire: A commentary
Tithi Bhattacharya and Lance Selfa
Reviews
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Trotsky on building the party
Thomas Grace reviews Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Twiss -
An insider’s hard truth of what underlies the testing craze
John Gallagher reviews Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch -
Settler colonialism and its victims
Ragina Johnson and Brian Ward review An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz -
Warrior cops
Tim Goulet reviews Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams and Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko -
Early critic of homophobic repression
Haley Swenson reviews Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement by Ralf Dose -
The life of a revolutionary woman
Deborah Roberts reviews Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes -
The lost paths of Marx’s thought uncovered
Lance Selfa reviews Marx and Latin America by José Aricó -
Lenin’s revolutionary Marxism
Paul Le Blanc reviews Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Political Practice and Theory in the Class Struggle by Alan Shandro -
Critical openness, imaginative commitment
William Keach reviews Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition by Neil Davidson -
A devastating picture of poverty in the richest country of the world
Lucy Herschel reviews The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky
Spring 2015
Issue contents
Top story
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Black Lives Matter
Khury Petersen-Smith
Features
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Race, surveillance, and empire
Arun Kundnani and Deepa Kumar -
Capitalism and sexual assault
Sharon Smith -
Mariátegui and Latin American Marxism
Lance Selfa -
The politics of Helen Keller
Keith Rosenthal
Reviews
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Explaining the Syrian civil war
Ashley Smith reviews Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect by Reese Erlich -
Expanding the LGBTQ agenda
Keegan O'Brien reviews Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock -
Subliminal racism repackaged
Paul Pryse reviews Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López -
A way forward for the 99%?
Shaun Harkin reviews The Communist Horizon by Jodi Dean -
No more magical thinking
Michael Ware reviews This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein -
Crimes of war
Bill Roberts reviews Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
Winter 2014-15
Issue contents
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The political economy of low-wage labor
Trish Kahle
Features
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The Fourth Comintern Congress
Antonis Davanellos -
Thailand’s crisis, coup, and fight for democracy
Giles Ji Ungpakorn -
Trotsky
Paul Le Blanc -
Accumulation by dispossession
Geoff Bailey
Interviews
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A philosophy for militants
Alain Badiou interviewed by Aaron Hess
Reviews
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The rise and fall of a Mexican drug lord
Héctor Agredano Rivera reviews Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers by Anabel Hernández -
The historical development of Zionist ideology in Israel
Nolan Rampy reviews The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappé -
Not a conflict, but a conquest
Jason Farbman reviews Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal -
China’s changing working class
Charlie Hore reviews Against the Law by Ching Kwan Lee; The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Labour Factories by Chris King-chi Chan; Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest by Tim Pringle; Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China by Eli Friedman; and Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants by Hsiao-hung Pai -
The class dimension of the new resistance
Kyle Brown reviews Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014 by Leo Panitch, Vivek Chibber and Greg Albo -
The destruction of the Third World Project
Pranav Jani reviews The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad -
How capitalism thwarts technology’s real potential
Brian Lenzo reviews Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy by Robert W. McChesney -
A crash course in class and gender
Rachel Cohen reviews Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism by Cinzia Arruzza -
NAFTA’s gravediggers?
Todd Chretien reviews Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America by Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui -
Filling an important gap in the analysis of disability
Ravi Malhotra reviews Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman and Allison C. Carey -
A window into the world of the slave trade
Sarah Blaskey reviews The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin
Fall 2014
Issue contents
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Features
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The Affordable Care Act
Helen Redmond -
Sexuality and capitalism
Colin Wilson -
Crisis in Iraq
Ashley Smith -
Marxism and ecosocialism
Hadas Thier -
Toward an anticapitalist climate justice movement
Michael Ware
Debates
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The poverty of Political Marxism
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu
Reviews
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Marxism and Orientalism
Deepa Kumar reviews Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism by Gilbert Achcar -
Renegade unionism
James Daugherty reviews A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism by Lisa Phillips -
Class conflict and politics in the North during the Civil War era
James Illingworth reviews Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction by John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov -
The new Marxist art history
Grant Mandarino reviews ReNew Marxist Art History edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran and Frederic J. Schwartz -
Defending the commons
Michael Ware reviews Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance by Peter Linebaugh and Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism by Stefanon Liberti -
The handmaiden of empire
Sofia Arias reviews Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire by Deepa Kumar -
The myths of Indian nationalism
Nagesh Rao reviews The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson -
Slavery and elite education in the US
Deborah Roberts reviews Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
Summer 2014
Issue contents
Top story
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What's behind the rise of BDS?
Sherry Wolf
Features
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Responding to capitalist global disaster
John Riddell -
Women’s liberation: The Marxist tradition
Sharon Smith
Critical Thinking
Reviews
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The political challenges of Palestinian liberation
Bill Mullen reviews The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah -
José Peirats and the Spanish Revolution
Patrick Gallagher reviews The CNT in the Spanish Revolution by José Peirats -
Underlying the uprisings
Andrew Pollack reviews Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East by Adam Hanieh -
False memory
Joe Allen reviews Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory by Penny Lewis -
The legacy of the Black Panthers
Lichi D'Amelio reviews Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. -
Capitalist reproduction and women’s oppression
Jessie Muldoon reviews Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study by Heather Brown -
Rescuing Gramsci from his misinterpreters
Joe Cleffie reviews The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism by Peter Thomas -
Capitalism and racial difference
Paul Heideman reviews The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in US History by David R. Roediger and Elizabeth D. Esch -
Neoliberal games
Mike Marqusee reviews Brazil’s Dance With the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy by Dave Zirin -
Selective amnesia about Afghanistan
Helen Redmond reviews The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith -
Astonished by the present
Alan Wald reviews An Impatient Life: A Memoir by Daniel Bensaïd
Pages
Issue #104
Spring 2017
Resistance and reaction in the time of Trump
Issue contents
Top story
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Trump's victory and the necessity of solidarity
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor interviewed by Ashley Smith
Editorials
Features
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We got Trumped
Charlie Post
Reviews
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The Communist roots of the “Black Cultural Front”
Megan Behrent reviews The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington
Upcoming Articles
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Choosing or refusing to take sides in an era of right-wing populism
Neil Davidson -
Corporate plunder vs. Native resistance
Ragina Johnson -
Fidel Castro's legacy and Cuba's future
Samuel Farber interviewed by Paul D'Amato -
Resistance and reaction in the time of Trump
-
Sanders and the Left
Lance Selfa -
The driving forces of the Russian Revolution
Karl Radek -
The Front Populaire and the making of the French Communist Party (1920–1962)
Selim Nadi -
We have always been here
Sara Rougeau
Upcoming Reviews
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Uncovering Boston's radical history
Keegan O'Brien reviews A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel -
Terror in the French Revolution and today
Samuel Farber reviews In Defense of the Terror: LIberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich -
The anti-philosophical Marxism of Karl Korsch
Paul Le Blanc reviews Karl Marx by Karl Korsch -
The progressive '80s?
Laura Durkay reviews Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman -
The New Deal and Little Steel
Tim Goulet reviews The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America by Ahmed White -
A Marxist challenge to postmodernist Orientalism
Pranav Jani reviews The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe by Vasant Kaiwar -
A Russian revolutionary in the Bronx
Alex Steinberg reviews Trotsky in New York: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman
