US Politics and Society Mayor Michael Bloomberg: A depreciation By Danny KatchAn ISR Web exclusive: Michael Bloomberg’s twelve-year reign as New York City mayor is not ending well. Danny Katch tells us why.
Culture A critique of social practice art By Ben DavisLOCATED IN Houston’s predominantly African-American Third Ward, the Project Row Houses stand today as one of the most-lauded examples of a burgeoning genre of contemporary art: “social practice.” In fact, the project’s...
Americas The political economy of Mexico's drug war By Helen Redmond“The whole world has a bad strategy for fighting drugs...This is a health problem, not a criminal problem.” —Dr. Arturo Valenzuela Zorrilla, Juárez physician
Social Movements Will the revolution be tweeted? By Brian LenzoIN 1970, the late, great, soul and jazz poet, Gil Scott-Heron told the world, “The revolution will not be televised.” The phrase is now an anthem for those people whose aspirations fall outside the narrow limits of “...
Labor Working-class women's liberation and rank-and-file rebellion in steel By Candace CohnTHERE REMAINS almost no knowledge today that a historic labor upsurge took place in the United States during the mid-1960s to mid-1970s. Largely ignored and lost to history have been that decade’s explosion of rank-and-...
Social Movements Pioneers in the fight for disability rights By Keith RosenthalIT IS commonly held that the inception of the modern US disability rights movement occurred amidst the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Specifically, two major developments figure prominently in this narrative.
Asia and Pacific Corporate power, women, and resistance in India today Arundhati Roy interviewed by David BarsamianARUNDHATI ROY is the celebrated author of The God of Small Things and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. The New York Times calls her, “India’s most impassioned critic of...
Marxism In defense of Political Marxism By Paul Heideman and Jonah BirchDebating the transitionTHE PAST few years have seen the publication of a series of contributions to the corpus of Marxist writings on the transition to capitalism. New books by Neil Davidson, Charlie...
Middle East One democratic state in historic Palestine By Tikva Honig-ParnassAn ISR Web exclusive: Tikva Honig-Parnass responds to Moshé Machover and a one state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
US Politics and Society The democratic deficit laid bare Review by Lance Selfa The Unheavenly Chorus:Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady Princeton University Press, 2012 · 692 pages · $35.00 “The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent,” wrote E.E....
The Unheavenly Chorus:Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady Princeton University Press, 2012 · 692 pages · $35.00
Americas Consolidating the narco-economy Review by Gabriel Chaves Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror:US Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia By Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle Monthly Review Press, 2011 · 278 pages · $16.95 THE WAR on drugs is a key feature of US foreign policy. If we were to judge this war by its official goal we must...
Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror:US Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia By Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle Monthly Review Press, 2011 · 278 pages · $16.95
Americas Struggle in the fields Review by Alexander Schmaus Lettuce Wars:Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California By Bruce Neuburger Monthly Review Press, 2013 · 350 pages · $22.95 WHEN A wildfire filled the sky with smoke and ash over coastal Ventura County in Southern California on May 2, 2013,...
Lettuce Wars:Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California By Bruce Neuburger Monthly Review Press, 2013 · 350 pages · $22.95
Europe Ireland's uneven development Review by Shaun Harkin Ireland’s Economic History:Crisis and Uneven Development in the North and South By Gerard McCann Pluto Press, 2011 · 240 pages · $30.00 Shaun Harkin reviews three books on the impact of imperialism and colonialism on Ireland’s economic development
Ireland’s Economic History:Crisis and Uneven Development in the North and South By Gerard McCann Pluto Press, 2011 · 240 pages · $30.00
Gender and Sexuality Uncovering Black Marxist feminism Review by Keegan O'Brien Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism By Erik S. McDuffie Duke University Press, 2011 · 306 pages · $23.95 Despite having been ignored by most historical accounts, African American women have been central to the history of...
Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism By Erik S. McDuffie Duke University Press, 2011 · 306 pages · $23.95
Culture An antiwar poet and activist Review by Deborah Roberts A Poet’s Revolution:The Life of Denise Levertov By Donna Krolik Hollenberg University of California Press · 514 pages · $44.95 A Poet’s Revolution provides an enlightening, thorough, and moving account of the life and work of British/...
A Poet’s Revolution:The Life of Denise Levertov By Donna Krolik Hollenberg University of California Press · 514 pages · $44.95
Americas The struggle of farm workers Review by Avery Wear From the Jaws of Victory:The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement By Matt Garcia University of California Press, 2012 · 368 pages · $34.95 MARTIN LUTHER King Jr., Malcolm X, and Cesar Chavez followed similar paths: lifetimes of courageous struggle against...
From the Jaws of Victory:The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement By Matt Garcia University of California Press, 2012 · 368 pages · $34.95
Americas The role of Lincoln's Republican Party in ending slavery Review by James Illingworth Freedom National:The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 By James Oakes W. W. Norton & Company, 2012 · 596 pages · $29.95 THE RELEASE late last year of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln has revived, albeit in a fairly limited way, a...
Freedom National:The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 By James Oakes W. W. Norton & Company, 2012 · 596 pages · $29.95
Social Movements A social theory of disability Review by Noreen McNulty The New Politics of Disablement:2nd Edition By Michael Oliver and Colin Barnes Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 · 248 pages · $34.00 WHEN THE first edition of Michael Oliver’s The Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach was published...
The New Politics of Disablement:2nd Edition By Michael Oliver and Colin Barnes Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 · 248 pages · $34.00
Economy A systematic theory of economic crisis Review by Hadas Thier The Capitalist Cycle:An Essay on the Marxist Theory of the Cycle By Pavel Maksakovsky Haymarket Books, 2009 · 152 pages · $20.00 IN 2002 the journal Historical Materialism published a translation of a previously unknown work of Marxist...
The Capitalist Cycle:An Essay on the Marxist Theory of the Cycle By Pavel Maksakovsky Haymarket Books, 2009 · 152 pages · $20.00
Economy Redistribute the wealth Review by Danny Katch Billionaires’ Ball:Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Beacon Press, 2012 · 268 pages · $26.95 MY MAIN complaint about this book is false advertising. With a title like this, I expect to be regaled with outrageous...
Billionaires’ Ball:Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Beacon Press, 2012 · 268 pages · $26.95
Labor Voices of the union rank and file Review by Darrin Hoop We are the Union:Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing By Dana Cloud University of Illinois Press, 2011 · 256 pages · $55.00 IF ONE only reads the business press these days, they would see the Boeing Company hailed as a “market darling” by...
We are the Union:Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing By Dana Cloud University of Illinois Press, 2011 · 256 pages · $55.00
Issue #90 july 2013 Will the revolution be tweeted? Mass struggles in an age of social media Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Tumblr Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Issue contentsTop story Mayor Michael Bloomberg: A depreciation Features The political economy of Mexico's drug war Will the revolution be tweeted? Working-class women's liberation and rank-and-file rebellion in steel Pioneers in the fight for disability rights A critique of social practice art Interviews Corporate power, women, and resistance in India today Debates In defense of Political Marxism One democratic state in historic Palestine Reviews Uncovering Black Marxist feminism An antiwar poet and activist The struggle of farm workers The role of Lincoln's Republican Party in ending slavery A social theory of disability A systematic theory of economic crisis Redistribute the wealth Voices of the union rank and file The democratic deficit laid bare Consolidating the narco-economy Struggle in the fields Ireland's uneven development
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