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    September 1, 2021

    After twenty-two years, the International Socialist Review, a project of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change (CERSC), suspended publication in 2019. CERSC is committed to maintaining the archive of ISR articles at ISReview.org.

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January 2013
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  • Words as weapons

    Peter Dwyer reviews Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island by Ashwin Desai

  • War and Capital

    Todd Chretien reviews Discovering Imperialism: Social Democracy to World War I by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido

  • How China's party rules

    David Whitehouse reviews The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor

  • Cause or cure?

    Hannah Wolfe reviews Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker

  • Teachers as scapegoats

    Laura Taylor reviews Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture by Ken K. Kumashiro

  • “Dystopia is for losers”

    Dan Sharber reviews Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth by Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, James Davis and Doug Henwood

  • Is small beautiful?

    Michael Ware reviews No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change the World by Greg Sharzer

  • Embedded bias

    Helen Redmond reviews Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
November 2012
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  • Lenin and his biographers

    Paul Le Blanc reviews The Non-Geometric Lenin: Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party, 1910–1914 by Carter Elwood; Lenin by Lars Lih; Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution by Philip Pomper; Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport; Lenin: A Revolutionary Life by Christopher Read; Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service; Forgotten Lives: The Role of Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution by Katy Turton; Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution by James D. White; and Lenin by Beryl Williams

  • The Red Dawn of a New Day

    Jason Netek reviews All Power to the Councils: A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918–1919 by Gabriel Kuhn

  • How not to build a movement

    Ian Angus reviews Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay

  • Marxism and ethics

    Tyler Zimmer reviews Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution by Paul Blackledge
September 2012
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June 2012
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  • The material roots of the Darfur conflict

    Younes Abouyoub
May 2012
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March 2012
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January 2012
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  • The politics of climate change activism

    Chris Williams reviews The Rise of the Green Left: A Global Introduction to Ecosocialism by Derek Wall and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change by Brian Tokar

  • Anything went

    Paul D'Amato reviews Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá

  • Marx redux

    Brooke Horvath reviews Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton

  • Racism on trial

    Jason Netek reviews People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago by Joe Allen

  • The life behind the icon

    Charles Peterson reviews The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World by John Carlos and Dave Zirin
November 2011
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September 2011
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  • Before Montgomery

    Elizabeth Schulte reviews At the Dark End of the Street: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. Mcguire

  • Inequality is the policy

    Lance Selfa reviews Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

  • The great fear revisited

    Joe Allen reviews The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial by Scott Martelle

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  • Creating a good society

    Jason Netek reviews The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development by MIchael Lebowitz
July 2011
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May 2011
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Spring 2019

The global women's movement

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