Review

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by Sam Friedman

Sam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.

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Posted July 23, 2025 Article

An internationalist looks back

A review of Walden Bello’s Global Battlefields

by Alex de Jong

Alex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Bello’s new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love. Chronicling Bello’s political development, Global Battlefields provides us with an informative and entertaining portrait of a committed internationalist.

Posted May 8, 2025 Article

Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

A review of The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

by Sean K. Isaacs

Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

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Posted February 19, 2025 Article

A review of Palestine and Marxism

The urgent need for regional solidarity from below

by brian bean

brian bean reviews Joseph Daher’s new book Palestine and Marxism.

Posted December 22, 2024 Article

Rosa Luxemburg’s war against cynicism

A review of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume V

by Sean Larson

Sean Larson reviews the newest volume in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.

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Posted November 11, 2024 Article

A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

Bill Roberts reviews the new biography Paul Foot: A Life in Politics.

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Posted October 27, 2024 Article

A review of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry

by Ben Rosenfield

Ben Rosenfield reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism.

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Posted September 26, 2024 Article

Nuclear Devastation

A review of Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario

by David Friedman

David Friedman reviews Annie Jacobsen’s latest book, Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024).

An illustration of the shape of Ireland covered with the pattern of the Irish flag. One hand with the Union Jack on it is pulling away the piece of land that is Northern Ireland, and one hand with the Irish flag is grabbing at the other hand to bring it back. The whole image is overlayed with an orange tint.

Posted September 16, 2024 Article

A review of “Kneecap”, stage and screen

Visions of a united socialist Ireland

by Glenn Allen

Glenn Allen reviews the film Kneecap (2024).

Posted June 27, 2024 Article

Complicit academia: Israel and the US

Review of Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel

by Keith Rosenthal

Keith Rosenthal reviews Towers of Ivory and Steel. Maya Wind’s new book details the active service that Israeli universities have always given to the project of settlement and the repression of Palestinian perspectives and resistance.