Category: Review
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Bolshevism Mystified
In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.
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Organize, yes, but how?
David Camfield reviews a new book by journalist Vincent Bevins surveying “mass protest explosions” around the world between 2010 and 2020.
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A life of theory and action
Tempest’s Brian Ward reviews A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story by Leo Zeilig.
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Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?
John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.
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War is hell
Sam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
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Reflections on Emily the Criminal
Samuel Farber reviews the film Emily the Criminal and its portrayal of a sympathetic working-class person forced into a life of crime.
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The dialectics of defeat—lessons from the United Kingdom
Aaron Amaral reviews Michael Chessum’s book This is Only the Beginning.
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It’s OK to be angry about Bernie Sanders’ new book
Tens of thousands of activists were inspired to join socialist Bernie Sanders’ campaigns for president in 2016 and 2020. Shamus Cooke reviews Bernie’s latest book and argues that the Sanders project of shifting the Democratic Party leftward has squandered the movement in a time of crisis and need.
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The life and politics of Walter Rodney
Tempest’s Anyanwu L. reviews A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma.
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Not your father’s comic
Excerpt: Glenn Allen reviews the surprisingly leftist politics featured prominently in the animated HBO Max superhero series Harley Quinn.