Category: Review
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Making sense of the Ukraine war
Eric Draitser critically reviews War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, which, he argues, sees the entirety of the conflict through the lens of U.S.-NATO aggression without making even a perfunctory attempt to engage with the many other critical aspects of the war.
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“Do not forsake me, comrade”
Hank Kennedy revisits the Hollywood classic High Noon.
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Don’t ever forgive, don’t ever forget
Thomas Hummel reviews the film “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a new adaptation of the classic anti-war novel.
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The making of a Black Bolshevik
Bill Mullen argues that McKay deserves a good Marxist biographer and has found one in Winston James.
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Past and Present Collide
Sudip Battacharya reviews Donna Murch, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives and explores how the past informs the present.
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Eric Blanc, Karl Kautsky, and the democratic road to socialism
John Marot reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy.
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Weaponizing identity politics
Eric Maroney reviews Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s recently published book from Haymarket, Elite Capture.
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Fighting Times
Jon Melrod’s memoir of his years as a revolutionary activist is a great read. Joe Allen reviews.
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Why the hell not
Gary Holloway reviews Mike Stout’s 2020 memoir Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years.
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“Written on Mars”
The final volume of Philip Foner’s groundbreaking history of the U.S. labor movement is now available. It covers the years 1929–1932. Despite its promise to frame the origins of the labor militancy of the Great Depression, Joe Allen argues that it presents a distorted picture.