Books
“New Left” in old age: Lebowitz’s ‘Contradictions of Real Socialism’
May 9, 2019The 1960s New Left's populist fantasies are still not what's needed to build real socialism.
Read more‘The Man Who Fell from the Sky’, Bill Fletcher Jr.’s new crime novel
May 3, 2019With The Man Who Fell From the Sky, I can promise you’ll get the political punch and a riveting story.
Read moreLiam O’Flaherty’s ‘Hollywood Cemetery’: Long censored exposé makes a comeback
March 21, 2019For readers of People’s World, a special aspect: O'Flaherty puts the Daily Worker (called Proletarian Power in the novel), at its moral center.
Read moreInterested in Chicago, politics, or Obama? Read ‘Conversations with Abner Mikva’
February 5, 2019CHICAGO—If you’re interested in Chicago, read this book. If you’re interested in politics, read this book. If you’re interested in the more-than-occasional zaniness of Chicago politics, read this book. And if you’re interested in Barack Obama...
Read more‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
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