David Whitehouse, the former reviews editor of the ISR, is a regular contributor on Asia and Africa. He blogs at worxintheory.wordpress.com. He lives in the Bay Area.
Issue #112
Spring 2019
The global women's movement
Issue contents
Top story
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The struggle for abortion rights in Argentina
Cele Fierro and Pablo Vasco
Editorials
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The shape of US politics
Lance Selfa
Features
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The new women's movement
Jennifer Roesch -
Fidel Castro
Samuel Farber -
What is different about today's far right?
David Renton -
Ten years since the great recession
Hadas Thier
Interviews
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The state of the Palestinian struggle
Toufic Haddad interviewed by Phil Gasper -
China's rise as a world power
Loong Yu Au interviewed by Ashley Smith
Critical Thinking
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How can we prevent climate catastrophe?
Phil Gasper
Reviews
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The legacy of Maoism in India
Samantha Agarwal reviews India After Naxalbari: Unfinished History by Bernard D'Mello -
The political economy of neolithic states
Llanon Davis reviews Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott -
Feminism's flexible features
Dayna Long reviews The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism by Catherine A. Rottenberg -
Marxist economics put to the test
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina reviews World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx's Law of Profitability by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts -
From Indigenous resistance to Native liberation
Brian Ward reviews Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes -
Charting the ebbs and flows of the US radical Left
Dan Georgakas reviews Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History by Paul Le Blanc -
Chronicles of the red state revolt
Emily Comer reviews Red State Revolt: What the Teachers’ Strike Wave Means for Workers and Politics by Eric Blanc -
Hidden history of the Mexican-American working class
Tim Goulet reviews Radicals in the Barrio: Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class by Justin Akers Chacón -
The truth alone will not set you free
Nancy Welch reviews Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture by Dana Cloud -
How finance capital wrecked the world economy
Guy Miller reviews Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze -
Pushing opioids for profits
Glenn Allen reviews Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy -
A pioneering work on Lenin and Bolshevism
Paul Le Blanc reviews In Defence of Bolshevism by Max Shachtman