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The Bund, anti-Zionism and the Jewish Left

A review of Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country

 by Janey Stone

In this review of Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, Janey Stone, co-author of The Radical Jewish Tradition offers praise for Crabapple’s authentic approach to storytelling that brings to life an underappreciated anti-Zionist history of the Jewish Labor Bund, while providing additional historical context and perspectives to encourage readers to engage fully with the book and its history.
A photo of a line of people at a checkpoint. In front of it, the book cover for "No neutrals there."
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U.S. Labor’s long history of Zionism

A review of Jeff Schuhrke’s No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine

 by Paul Fleckenstein

Paul 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.
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Ernst Meyer, Leninist

A review of “Revolution as Realpolitik. Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman”

 by John Marot

Understanding 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.