Book Review
BOOK REVIEW A Red Family
May 10, 2009The 2002 death of former Communist Party activist and longtime civil rights/labor activist Junius Scales concluded one of America's most distinctive lives. Convicted of a felony in the 1950s solely for his party membership, Scales appealed...
Read moreRekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 12, 2008BOOK REVIEW The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Edited by William A. Pelz Institute of Working Class History, 2008 $17.50, paperback, 205 pp Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), one of America’s most famous...
Read moreRekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 5, 2008Title: The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Publisher: Institute of Working Class History, 2008, 205 pages Author: Edited by William A. Pelz, Introduction by Howard Zinn Correction: An earlier version of this...
Read moreEinstein in the hood. BOOK REVIEW: Einstein on Race and Racism.
February 24, 2006Princeton was a southern town in northern gown. Segregation of Blacks from whites was widely practiced and enforced. Einstein, a German-born Jew and naturalized American citizen, was acutely aware of what racism is and does, and...
Read moreUnderstanding what went wrong in the USSR
August 13, 2004Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union By Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny International Publishers, 2004 Softcover, 230 pp., $14.00 The demise of the Soviet Union was a watershed event in human history....
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