The making of a Black Bolshevik
A review of Winston James’s new biography of Claude McKay
by Bill MullenBill Mullen argues that McKay deserves a good Marxist biographer and has found one in Winston James.
J.D. Vance, Replacement Theory, and the 2022 U.S. elections
by Bill Mullen
Bill V. Mullen reflects on the Ohio Senate campaign of J.D. Vance, in the aftermath of the white supremacist murders in Buffalo, and finds a through line of “Replacement Theory” and emergent fascist politics.
Richard Wright and the police state
Review of The Man Who Lived Underground.
by Bill MullenBill Mullen reviews the newly published novel by Richard Wright,The Man Who Lived Underground.
No war, no KKK
by Bill Mullen
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.