Wayne Au is a Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, and he is an editor for the social justice teaching magazine, Rethinking Schools. He is the author of A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World (Haymarket 2018), Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality (Routledge, 2009), and Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing (Routledge, 2011).
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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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 -
Fidel Castro
Samuel Farber
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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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 -
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