John Gallagher

John Gallagher is a socialist and member of the California Teachers Association in Fremont, CA.

Reviews

An insider’s hard truth of what underlies the testing craze

Ever since the growing attacks on public education and the focus on “testing accountability” from corporate education...

Reign of Error:

The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools

By Diane Ravitch

Vintage Books, 2014 · 416 pages · $16.95

Issue #112

Spring 2019

The global women's movement

Issue contents

Top story

The struggle for abortion rights in Argentina

Cele Fierro and Pablo Vasco

Editorials

The shape of US politics

Lance Selfa

Features

The global struggle against the war on women
Fidel Castro

Samuel Farber
What is different about today's far right?

David Renton
Ten years since the great recession

Hadas Thier
The new women's movement

Jennifer Roesch

Interviews

China's rise as a world power

Loong Yu Au interviewed by Ashley Smith
The state of the Palestinian struggle

Toufic Haddad interviewed by Phil Gasper

Critical Thinking

How can we prevent climate catastrophe?

Phil Gasper

Reviews

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