Marx’s materialist conception of history revisited
Phil Gasper
Issues
Summer 2018
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Top story
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The future of class struggle in the US
Lee Sustar -
Marx and nature
Elizabeth Terzakis -
How Marx became a Marxist
Anthony Arnove -
Catalonia's independence movement
Josep Maria Atentas
Interviews
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The changing working class
Kim Moody
Reviews
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Putting the working class back at the center of resistance
Nancy Welch reviews On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War by Kim Moody -
How we got stuck with Trump
Eve Ottenberg reviews US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty edited by Lance Selfa -
The reproduction of labor power at capitalism’s core
Jesse Muldoon reviews Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression edited by Tithi Bhattacharya -
The roots of gun violence in the United States
Brian Ward reviews Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Upcoming Articles
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Editorial
Paul D'Amato
Upcoming Reviews
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Reclaiming the tradition of Black socialist feminism
Megan Behrent reviews How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -
How neoliberalism undermined Palestinian liberation
Bill Crane reviews Palestine Ltd.: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territories by Toufic Haddad -
A history of dispossession
Andrew Kordik reviews Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll -
The theory and practice of Italian workerism
Andrew Ryder reviews Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright -
Using science to debunk sexist myths
Bekah Ward reviews Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
March 1, 2018
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Debating the Russian Revolution and its relevance
Paul Le Blanc
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Capital Offenses: Hillbilly Elegy and anti-worker mythologies
Matthew E. Stanley -
Bloody Trump's first year
Lance Selfa -
The year of #MeToo
Elizabeth Schulte -
Morbid symptoms
Gilbert Achcar -
The New Deal and the Popular Front
Charles Post -
Revolution and counterrevolution in Syria
Tony McKenna
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The roots of revolution and counterrevolution in Syria
Shireen Akram-Boshar reviews The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh -
Examing the revolution in Rojava
Emma Wilde Botta reviews Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga -
How neoliberalism destroyed the American Dream
Emily Shaw reviews Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian Alexander -
The convenient smokescreen of "overpopulation"
Leela Yellesetty reviews Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control by Betsy Hartmann -
Marta Russell’s legacy and the political economy of disability
Bridget Broderick reviews Disability Politics in a Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Marta Russell edited by Ravi Malhotra -
Marx's essential contribution to ecosocialism
Hannah Holleman reviews Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito -
How inequality kills
Don Lash reviews The Killing Fields of Inequality by Goran Therborn -
Israel's national security state
Nolan Rampy reviews War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians, and Global Pacification by Jeff Halper -
The shadows of an empire in decline
Dorian Bon reviews In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
Winter 2017–18
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States of inequality
Sharon Smith
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Workers’ organizations in the Russian Revolution
Amy Muldoon -
Clara Zetkin and the struggle against fascism
John Riddell and Mike Taber -
The case for an independent Left party
Howie Hawkins -
Unequal exchange
Barry Finger
Interviews
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A novel retelling of the October Revolution
China Miéville interviewed by Todd Chretien -
Revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in Syria
Yassin al-Haj Saleh interviewed by Ashley Smith
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Ecosocialism or planetary barbarism
Michael Ware reviews Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus -
The far right's idea man
Lance Selfa reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean -
Finance capital, imperialism, and the world economy
Neil Loehlein reviews The City: London and the Global Power of Finance by Tony Norfeld -
Charting Syriza's swift rise and fall
Despina Lalaki reviews The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by Helena Sheehan -
Grappling with the real Lenin
Ronnie Flores reviews Leninism Under Lenin by Marcel Liebman -
Righting an upside-down world
Andrew Kordik reviews Karl Polyani: A Life on the Left by Gareth Dale
Upcoming Articles
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The Russian Revolution revisited
Ahmed Shawki
Fall 2017
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April 1917: How Lenin Rearmed
Paul D'Amato
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Free speech and fighting the right on campus
Monique Dols -
Workers' Democracy in Revolutionary Petrograd
Mike Haynes -
Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
Joseph Daher
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Undoing the rigid stereotypes of the Russian Revolution
Haley Pessin reviews The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd by Alexander Rabinowitch -
The Lenin behind the distortions
Paul Le Blanc reviews The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali -
The rise and fall of the "pink tide"
Lance Selfa reviews The Last Days of Oppression and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left by Jeffery R. Webber -
Marxism in Nigeria
Geoff Bailey reviews Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria by Adam Mayer -
The Dialectical Biologists
Bekah Ward reviews Not in Our Genes: Ideology, Biology, and Human Nature by Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose and Leon Kamin
Summer 2017
Issue contents
Top story
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Fighting for reproductive rights in the age of Trump
Sharon Smith
Editorials
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Trump's first 100 days
Lance Selfa
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Trump and the crisis of the neoliberal world order
Ashley Smith -
The Russian Revolution: a brief reading guide
Phil Gasper -
Hadj-Ali Abelkader: A Muslim Communist in the 1920s
Ian Birchall -
New Opportunities for Québec's Left
Benoit Renaud -
Visualizing revolution
Geoff Bailey
Interviews
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Immigration policy under Trump
Justin Akers Chacón interviewed by Lance Selfa and Ashley Smith
Reviews
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Marxism and ecology
Chris Williams reviews Marx and the Earth: An Anti-critique by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett -
Explaining the Crisis
Jack Rasmus reviews The Long Depression: How it Happened, Why it Happened, and What Happens Next by Michael Roberts -
The rise of Corbyn
Bill Crane reviews Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour -
1917: A change in the soul as much as in the factory
Paul Le Blanc reviews A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner and October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville -
An eyewitness to the Russian Revolution
Mike Haynes reviews Lenin's Moscow by Alfred Rosmer -
A labor victory in an era of defeats
Doniella Maher reviews Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985–87 by Peter Shapiro -
The path of least resistance?
Danny Katch reviews Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason -
Putting women and the family into economics
Sarah Grey reviews Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics by Katrine Marçal -
The shock of the Anthropocene
Michael Ware reviews The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Spring 2017
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Editorials
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Sanders and the Left
Lance Selfa -
We got Trumped
Charlie Post -
Corporate plunder vs. Native resistance
Ragina Johnson -
We have always been here
Sara Rougeau -
The driving forces of the Russian Revolution
Karl Radek
Interviews
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Trump's victory and the necessity of solidarity
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor interviewed by Ashley Smith -
Fidel Castro's legacy and Cuba's future
Samuel Farber interviewed by Paul D'Amato
Reviews
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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 -
Uncovering Boston's radical history
Keegan O'Brien reviews A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel -
The anti-philosophical Marxism of Karl Korsch
Paul Le Blanc reviews Karl Marx by Karl Korsch -
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 -
A Russian revolutionary in the Bronx
Alex Steinberg reviews Trotsky in New York: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman -
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 -
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 -
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
Winter 2016-17
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Sapronov and the Russian Revolution
Yurii Colombo
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The legacy of Louis Althusser
Andrew Ryder -
Standing up to the Zionist backlash against BDS
Bill Mullen -
Legacies of colonialism in Africa
Lee Wengraf -
Austerity, neoliberalism, and the Indian working class
Snehal Shingavi -
Disability and the Soviet Union: Advances and retreats
Keith Rosenthal -
The critical communism of Antonio Labriola
Doug Enaa Greene -
Austerity, neoliberalism, and the Indian working class
Snehal Shingavi
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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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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 -
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
Fall 2016
Issue contents
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Disability and the Russian Revolution
Keith Rosenthal
Editorials
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World economy: The return of crisis
Joel Geier and Lee Sustar -
From "political revolution" to lesser-evilism
Lance Selfa -
Imperialist feminism
Deepa Kumar -
After Brexit
Neil Davidson
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
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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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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 -
Magonismo and the roots of revolutionary internationalism
Justin Akers Chacón
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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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 -
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
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
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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 -
Reflections on our experience with Syriza
Antonis Davanellos -
The asymmetric world order
Ashley Smith
Reviews
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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 -
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
Winter 2015-16
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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
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Inequality and social crisis in Europe
Roland Pfefferkorn -
Europe’s refugee crisis
Nicole Colson -
The end of the “Golden Decade”
Marcelo Yunes -
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
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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 -
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
Fall 2015
Issue contents
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Educating for austerity
Nancy Welch
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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 -
LGBT politics after marriage
Colin Wilson -
Unite and fight?
Sherry Wolf -
A storm in New Orleans
Kristian Williams
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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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 -
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
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Summer 2018
The future of the class struggle in the US
A radical road to Labor's revival?
Issue contents
Top story
Features
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The future of class struggle in the US
Lee Sustar -
Marx and nature
Elizabeth Terzakis -
How Marx became a Marxist
Anthony Arnove -
Catalonia's independence movement
Josep Maria Atentas
Interviews
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The changing working class
Kim Moody
Reviews
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Putting the working class back at the center of resistance
Nancy Welch reviews On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War by Kim Moody -
How we got stuck with Trump
Eve Ottenberg reviews US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty edited by Lance Selfa -
The reproduction of labor power at capitalism’s core
Jesse Muldoon reviews Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression edited by Tithi Bhattacharya -
The roots of gun violence in the United States
Brian Ward reviews Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Upcoming Articles
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Editorial
Paul D'Amato
Upcoming Reviews
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Reclaiming the tradition of Black socialist feminism
Megan Behrent reviews How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -
How neoliberalism undermined Palestinian liberation
Bill Crane reviews Palestine Ltd.: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territories by Toufic Haddad -
A history of dispossession
Andrew Kordik reviews Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll -
The theory and practice of Italian workerism
Andrew Ryder reviews Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright -
Using science to debunk sexist myths
Bekah Ward reviews Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
