Shaun Joseph

Shaun Joseph is a socialist and antiwar activist in the Boston area.

Features

Under the Eagle

THE U.S. occupation—or re-occupation—of the Caribbean republic of Haiti, coming after the successful U.S.-backed coup in Honduras and the ominous American acquisition of seven Colombian military bases, raises profound...

Reviews

US Politics and Society

How Obama let Wall Street off the hook

The release of Confidence Men, Ron Suskind’s shattering portrayal of the Obama administration’s failure to...

Confidence Men:

Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Harper, 2011 · 528 pages · $30.00

As the "best possible" world goes bad

The title of philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s small new book is, of course, a reference to Marx’s variation on Hegel’s remark...

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

By Slavoj Žižek

Verso, 2009 · 157 pages · $13.00

US Politics and Society

Raising the alert levels on bathtubs

IF, AS string theorists tell us, ours is only one in an array of universes, perhaps in an alternate one there is an...

Overblown:

How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them

By John Mueller

Free Press, 2006 · 259 pages · $25.00

Social Movements

Funding for activists, and the strings attached

THE RISE of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the non-profit sector in the developing world has been the...

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded:

Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

South End Press, 2007 · 256 pages · $18.00

Letters

Overestimating ruling class responsiveness to energy crisis

Saman Sepehri’s letter makes some interesting points in his reply to Phil Gasper (“Capitalists and the energy crisis,” ISR 61, September-October, 2008); but if he can accuse Gasper of “underestimating” the...

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 new women's movement

Jennifer Roesch
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

Interviews

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

How can we prevent climate catastrophe?

Phil Gasper

Reviews

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
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