Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution?
A review of Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention
by Mel BienenfeldTempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.
A revolutionary socialist organizing project
A review of Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention
by Mel BienenfeldTempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.
A review of Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters
by Glenn AllenWhat makes I Love Boosters distinctive is the clarity of its class politics—a review by Glenn Allen.
A review of D. K. Renton’s Revolutionary Forgiveness
by Sean K. IsaacsSean Isaacs describes how Revolutionary Forgiveness offers meaningful alternatives to the carceral system.
A Filipino Maoist’s memoir
by Alex de JongAlex de Jong reviews the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, a Filipino revolutionary and member of the “General Command” of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s.
A review of Jeff Schuhrke’s No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine
by Paul FleckensteinPaul Fleckenstein reviews No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, documenting U.S. Labor’s historical complicity in Zionist settler colonialism and outlining opportunities for labor in the United States to move toward advancing, rather than suppressing, Palestinian liberation.
A review of “Revolution as Realpolitik. Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman”
by John MarotUnderstanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.
A review of Fadaee and Anderson on Colonialism and Revolutionary Politics
by Paul Le BlancPaul Le Blanc reviews books on global Marxism by Simin Fadaee and Kevin Anderson.
A review of Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives
by Guillermo KawinGuillermo Kawin offers this review of Anderson Bean’s new work Venezuela in Crisis.
Review of David Camfield’s Red Flags
by Hakan YilmazDavid Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”
What Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss fails to consider
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.