Category: Review
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Afro-surrealism with a banging soundtrack
What makes I Love Boosters distinctive is the clarity of its class politics—a review by Glenn Allen.
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Redeeming the past for a revolutionary future
Sean Isaacs describes how Revolutionary Forgiveness offers meaningful alternatives to the carceral system.
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Searching for international solidarity
Alex 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.
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U.S. Labor’s long history of Zionism
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
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.
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The Revolutionary Development of Global Marxism
Paul Le Blanc reviews books on global Marxism by Simin Fadaee and Kevin Anderson.
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Venezuela
Guillermo Kawin offers this review of Anderson Bean’s new work Venezuela in Crisis.
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“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition
David 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.”
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Mutual ruin? Or working-class revolution?
Sam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.
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An internationalist looks back
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.