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Venezuela's Process & Fall: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez

Peter Solenberger — 2026-09-16T11:48:21Z

“IN THE FIRST decade of the 21st century, Hugo Chávez's Venezuela had the most radical government and most developed social movements of the Latin American Pink Tide.[…]
Twenty years later, Venezuela was far less attractive: its economy was ruined, its social movements were shells, and the government of Nicolás Maduro, Chávez's successor, was repressive.

- Reviews section / Venezuela, Reviews

Mexico: A Revolutionary Ride

Kit Wainer — 2026-09-11T19:47:31Z

“One of the book's great strengths is that it offers an empathetic look at the various political currents swirling through revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico.”

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

Russia's New Imperialism

Jean Batou — 2026-09-11T19:18:16Z

“A fascinating and highly topical book, which deserves to be read without fail.”

- Reviews section / Russia, Reviews, Features, Imperialism

Remaining true to socialism — and wrestling with its meaning

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-09-03T14:03:13Z

“Here is a gift for all who care about the human spirit, freedom, democracy and socialism: a volume of first-person, first-hand recollections about how something that seemed so extraordinarily promising — the 1917 Russian Revolution — took a tragically dark turn, and how some people sought to understand and push against such a fateful and terrible development.”

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

The Early Comintern in Context

Kay Mann — 2026-09-03T04:24:39Z

“READERS WILL FIND inside this austerely presented and written book a rich vein of political analysis from the documents and debates of the Communist International (CI), or Comintern as it came to be known, as it sought to analyze and shape tumultuous events during the period of victories and defeats following the 1917 Russian Revolution.”

- Reviews section / Historical events and figures

The Bund: A Committed History

Peter Drucker — 2026-08-19T07:56:39Z

The rave reception for Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple's avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is on the New York Times bestseller list.

- Reviews section / Marxism, Historical events and figures

Defining Democratic Socialists of America

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-06-08T11:15:21Z

THIS VALUABLE COLLECTION serves a dual function. Most obviously, it connects readers with the largest organization on the U.S. Left today — Democratic Socialists of America.

- Reviews section / United States (USA), New parties of the left

Searching for international solidarity

Alex de Jong — 2026-05-01T07:17:21Z

Deeper Grounds, Darker Shadows is the remarkable memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, a Filipino revolutionary who traveled across four different continents to find support for the struggle in his home-country. A book filled with stories of subterfuge and encounters with outlaws and dictators, it sheds new light on the history of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the limitations of its revolutionary strategy.

- Reviews section / Philippines, Japan, Reviews, Features

The Revolutionary Development of Global Marxism

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-04-21T09:32:27Z

In this review of two books about the development of anti- and de-colonial Marxism, Paul Le Blanc recommends an account of the development of Marx's thought with regard to the class dynamics and revolutionary possibilities of global struggles. Developments in Marx's thinking may be usefully put into conversation with thinkers from the Global South if done so in an analytical way.

- Reviews section / Marxism

A Review of Nancy Holmstrom's “From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View”

Cinzia Arruzza — 2026-04-21T09:32:12Z

Nancy Holmstrom's From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature is a collection of essays written across several decades by a philosopher whose commitment to theoretically and politically integrating Marxism and feminism has remained unfashionably steady across half a century of shifting intellectual trends.

- Reviews section / Marxism, Women, Reviews