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On Ernest Mandel's Contributions

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-01-15T13:52:32Z

“Kellner offers the following critical appreciation: “One hopes that many more people will be inspired by Mandel's verve and let themselves be motivated to live his kind of life, yet without succumbing to ungrounded political confidence or to some of his more questionable ideas.””

- Reviews section / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Reviews

“We Wanted to Show the Whole Range of Anti-War Resistance in Russia”

Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T15:18:39Z

“They come from different generations, have different life experiences, and hold different political views. This diversity demonstrates that, despite the absence of public demonstrations and the lack of any real possibility of organizing an open anti-war movement in Russia, an anti-war movement does exist there.”

- Reviews section / Russia, Ukraine, Reviews

Raging Against Vladimir Putin's War Machine

Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T14:57:40Z

“In Russia and occupied Ukraine, many thousands of civilians have been jailed or forcibly disappeared for speaking out against the invasion. The numbers reflect a crackdown on dissent worse than at any point since the 1950s.”

- Features / Ukraine, Reviews

Trotsky in Tijuana

Peter Veltmans — 2025-10-06T10:58:00Z

Books about historical topics can sometimes be a bit difficult. Often, the list of names, facts, anecdotes, and dates is so long that the reader risks getting lost. Moreover, the reasons behind events are not always very clear, nor always explained in a way that is easy to understand.

- Reviews section / Mexico, Reviews, Historical events and figures

Walden Bello looks back on Filipino and global struggles

Alex de Jong — 2025-08-20T12:13:01Z

In Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love, Walden Bello remembers a rich life as a scholar and activist, from agitating against U.S. support for Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s to becoming a leading critic of neoliberal globalization to joining the Philippine House of Representatives and running for vice-president.

- Reviews section / Philippines, Reviews, Historical events and figures

Indonesia's Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity

Alex de Jong — 2025-06-07T19:51:45Z

Review of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia by Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025).

- Reviews section / Indonesia, Reviews

“Putin's Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses ‘Antifascism' to Justify the War in Ukraine”

Duncan Chapel — 2025-05-27T10:30:41Z

The booklet can be downloaded: "Putin's Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses 'Antifascism' to Justify the War in Ukraine by Anastasia Spartak (2025), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

- Reviews section / Ukraine, Reviews

Resistance Work” of Women Workers

Catherine Samary — 2024-07-26T13:43:25Z

Daria Saburova has written a fascinating three-month wartime field study of the Ukrainian mining town of Krivih Rih (which happens to be the home town of president Zelensky). It focuses on the voluntary “resistance work” of working-class women in this town. (For now, “Resistance Work” of Women Workers. The Ukrainian working classes in the face of war is in French only.)
This is a “situated” investigation: it breaks with the “geo-political” approaches that dominate a section of the left (…)

- Reviews section / Women, Ukraine, Reviews

Cause at Heart: Socialists & the Abolition of Antisemitism

Alan Wald — 2024-07-26T13:42:52Z

Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism By Shane Burley and Ben Lorber. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2024. 375 pages. $19.99 paperback. Zionism: An Emotional State By Derek J. Penslar New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 321 pages. $21.30 paperback. The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism By Marjorie N. Feld New York: New York University Press, 2024. 279 pages. $30 hardback. Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial By Saree Makdisi Oakland, California: California University Press, 2022. 228 pages. $29.49 hardback. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba By Areej Sabbagh-Khoury Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. 348 pages. $75.00 hardback.

- Reviews section / United States (USA), Israel, Reviews, antisemitism

The Revolutionary Life and Times of Michel Pablo

Alex de Jong — 2024-03-30T18:41:59Z

The Greek revolutionary Michel Pablo had a remarkable, globe-spanning career, from wartime resistance activity to his work supplying weapons and finance for the Algerian independence struggle. He's finally gotten the biography he deserves.

- Reviews section / Greece, Fourth International, Algeria, Reviews