Book Review – Page 33 – People's World

How long is Lenin’s shadow?

March 28, 2017 By Andrew Murray

There was no one right way to resolve the dilemmas Lenin left behind. Perhaps it is past time that the competing camps of “Leninists” reconcile on this matter.

Eric Foner’s ‘Battles for Freedom’ salvages America’s history of struggle

February 13, 2017 By John Green

Radical historian Eric Foner calls out politicians and the powerful for their abuse and misuse of American history.

Invasion of the Funny Fish: Science fiction for the Trump era

January 6, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

I am not a customary sci-fi reader; this book came to me by way of my sister, who instinctively knew I would love it. You will too.

Desert on Fire: Photo collection documents Kuwait oil disaster

January 4, 2017 By Ben Cowles

When Iraq’s army left Kuwait in 1991, it set hundreds of oil wells alight. Photographer Sebastião Salgado documented the heroes who halted an environmental catastrophe.

James and Esther Cooper Jackson, African American activists in a joint biography

December 12, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky

James and Esther Cooper Jackson were mainstays of the struggle for African American equality for decades. Sara Rzeszutek Haviland tells the story of their life together.