Tag: History
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The Bund, anti-Zionism and the Jewish Left
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…
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The Cultural Movement that Once Defeated Neo-Nazism
Bill Roberts reviews Geoff Brown’s A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, documenting the formation of the Anti Lazi League (1977-1981) to combat the rise of the neo-Nazi National Front, as well as the surrounding cultural antiracist movement of late-1970s Great Britain.
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Assata Taught Me
Donna Murch’s latest book is Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives. Naomi Murakawa spoke to her soon after its release.
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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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Comrade Leo Bernard, 1939-1966
The Left was on the rise—and under threat—in the mid-1960s. Hank Kennedy tells the story of a hometown comrade who was a target of anti-communist violence.
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Taiwan and the logic(s) of imperialism
Charlie Hore looks at the background to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan—which has further raised tensions between the United States and China—and asks what the U.S. expected to get out of it.
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Taiwan: Caught Between Rival Superpowers
Tempest interviews Brian Hioe and Wen Liu, two prominent commentators on Taiwanese politics and editors of New Bloom Magazine, about Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit and the geopolitical battle between the U.S. and China over the island.
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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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The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America
Anderson Bean reviews The Impasse of the Latin American Left, a new book by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modones, and Jeffery R. Webber on the experience of the Latin American Left, over the last couple of decades, in and out of power.
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The Vietnam War in comics, after the war
In the follow-up to an earlier article looking at the representation of the Vietnam War in mainstream U.S. comics, Hank Kennedy focuses on the years following the formal conclusion of the war.