A critique of social practice art By Ben DavisIssue #90: FeaturesLOCATED 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...
An antiwar poet and activist Review by Deborah RobertsIssue #90: Reviews 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
The enduring relevance of Victor Hugo By Megan BehrentIssue #89: FeaturesTO UNDERSTAND the significance of Victor Hugo, one must begin at the end, with his death on May 22, 1885. His funeral attracted more than two million people, one of the largest mass mobilizations ever seen in Paris and...
In defense of the real world Review by Adam TurlIssue #89: Reviews 9.5 Theses on Art and Class By Ben Davis Haymarket Books, 2013 · 224 pages · $16.00 ART IS in crisis. First of all, contemporary art exists in a world of multiple crises. It exists in a world of rapid...
Caught between Stalinism and anticommunism Review by Bill MullenIssue #88: Reviews American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War By Alan Wald University of North Carolina Press, 2012 · 416 pages · $45.00 IN 1944 Pioneer Press published Leon Trotsky’s Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It. The book compiled...
American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War By Alan Wald University of North Carolina Press, 2012 · 416 pages · $45.00
Woody Guthrie: "Songs that prove to you this is your world" By Alex BilletIssue #85: FeaturesON JANUARY 19, 2009, a crowd of thousands gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States, a country where it had...
Race and media in the United States Review by Bill RobertsIssue #84: Reviews News For All the People:The Epic Story of Race and the American Media By Juan González and Joseph Torres Verso, 2012 IN 2006, the Wilmington Race Riot Commission published a 600-page report on a 108-year-old riot. The commission,...
News For All the People:The Epic Story of Race and the American Media By Juan González and Joseph Torres Verso, 2012
How a tragic soccer riot may have revived the Egyptian revolution By Dave ZirinIssue #82: FeaturesTHERE ARE no words for the horror that took place in Port Said, Egypt on February 1. A soccer match became a killing field, with at least seventy-four spectators dead, and as many as 1,000 injured. The visiting Al-Ahly...
The life behind the icon Review by Charles PetersonIssue #81: Reviews The John Carlos Story:The Sports Moment That Changed the World By John Carlos and Dave Zirin Haymarket Books, 2011 · 210 pages · $22.95 JOHN CARLOS and Tommie Smith will forever be icons of resistance for their heroic and defiant Black Power salute on...
The John Carlos Story:The Sports Moment That Changed the World By John Carlos and Dave Zirin Haymarket Books, 2011 · 210 pages · $22.95
Finding the truth where certainties collide By Tony Kushner and Megan BehrentIssue #81: FeaturesTony Kushner is arguably the most prominent left wing playwright in the United States today. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for the first part of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...
Issue #90 july 2013 Will the revolution be tweeted? Mass struggles in an age of social media 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
