Class Compromise: On the Contradictions of Social Democracy
With Bernie Sanders reentering the presidential primary race, expect critiques of social democracy to surface. Social democracy involves the…
The Indypendent
Steven Sherman
2 Centuries, 10 Strikes: Erik Loomis Offers an Insightful History of American Labor
With public support for unions surging, historian Erik Loomis has produced a timely book called A History of America…
A More Complex Portrait of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
In A History More Beautiful and Terrible: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Brooklyn College political scientist…
Reviewed:
‘The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government and Cheap Lives’
By Bryant Simon
New Press, 2017
Review: “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”
Nancy McLean
Viking, 2017
“The Reactionary Mind” (2nd Edition)
Corey Robin
Oxford University Press, 2017
A review of “Hegemony How-to: A Roadmap for Radicals” By Jonathan Matthew Smucker (AK Press, 2017).
Becky Bond and Zack Exley’s Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything is part of a recent…
Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism By L.A. Kauffman Verso Books, 2017 "Whole bookshelves groan under…
A Lesson in How Not to Fight Trump
On Friday night I attended a panel discussion put on by the Young Democratic Socialists of America and Rosa…