Category: Review
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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.
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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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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.
