Book Review
Chile’s ‘1000 Days of Revolution’: A Marxist analysis of the Allende years
September 8, 2023A new book features assessments made by Chilean Communists of the Allende years and the CIA-backed coup of Sept. 11, 1973.
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Novel ‘Strumpet City’ depicts 1913 Dublin lockout, Irish proletariat’s first great class struggle
August 25, 2023Though it is plagued by major gaps when it comes to portraying the struggle for national liberation going on at the same time, James Plunkett’s book is still a major read.
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Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
August 24, 2023Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.
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Modern Yiddish publishing: New feminist horror stories by Elizabeth Schwartz
August 14, 2023Schwartz excels at word-painting the social environments she writes about.
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A writer in his eighties fictionalizes his radical family history
July 18, 2023A good friend asked me to read his latest novel and, if I cared to, write something about it. I do care to.
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