EVEN THOUGH ALLEN Ginsberg’s “America” was not among the ardent verses recited in the 1989 teen drama Dead Poets Society, his 1956 anti-capitalist protest poem hurled a celebrated challenge of defiance against the stifling conformity of his native land: “When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?”
“Chinese model of (hyper) development, and its disastrous ecological consequences”
17 August 2020, byRichard Smith, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, London: Pluto Books, 2020, 320 pages.
“Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers”
8 August 2020, by“Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers” – by Nathaniel Flakin, Pluto Press 2019.
The Struggle Against Dalit Oppression in India
8 August 2020, byReview of Anand Teltumbde, Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva (Navayana, 2018)
The Romance of American Communism
29 June 2020, byAs protests work to remake the world, the reissue of Vivian Gornickʼs The Romance of American Communism invites a new generation to reflect on what it means to live a life of political commitment—where the passionate pursuit of justice meets organized political action. The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick Verso.
More than a Left Foot
27 June 2020, byBob Findlay’s final sentence in his book hopes that “it has provided an insight into an array of historical events, socio-political issues and personal narratives worthy of your time”. It certainly does and is in fact several books for the price of one.
The Living Flame
7 June 2020, byThe Living Flame – the revolutionary passion of Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Le Blanc, Haymarket 2019.
“Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey”
23 May 2020, by“Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey” by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, Roseway Publishing 2019.
A book that reads almost like a thriller
18 May 2020, byOriginally published in French and in Greek in March 2020 under the title Capitulation entre Adultes, the book will be available in English before the end of 2020. The book looks back at Syriza coming to power in Greece in January 2015 and the ensuing six months, marked as they were by stark confrontation between the new Greek government and the European Union. As scientific coordinator of the debt audit, alongside the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Éric Toussaint had a grandstand view of events. He criticises the government’s policies and explains that there was plenty of scope for different strategies.
Bohrer’s loving, fuming critique
6 April 2020, by“Ashley Bohrer’s Marxism and Intersectionality is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh. ” Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism by Ashley J. Bohrer, Bielefeld (Germany): Transcript, 2019, distributed by Columbia University Press, $45.00
