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Book review: Revolution, She Wrote
Author Clara Fraser explains with attitude why her long-lived life was thrilling and fulfilled — because she’d been fighting for a better future for all. “The momentum of history, like the logic of science, is on our side.”
Book review: Dark Emu
It’s something of a truism, isn’t it? History is written by the victors — well, of course! What if that history still exists all around, yet there is an ideology which renders it invisible? Welcome to the settler state known as Australia. A place where the attempted, and quite deliberate, expungement of the world’s oldest… Read more »
Author Susan Eisenberg reviews High Voltage Women
Eisenberg, a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, praises the book’s “rich accomplishments.”
High Voltage Women available now!
The riveting new history of groundbreaking electrical tradeswomen and socialist feminists in the fight for affirmative action. Get your copy today!
Wrenching and real — If Beale Street Could Talk
A moving love story, brilliantly acted, directed and musically scored, and deeply political.
High Voltage Women: pioneer tradeswomen who made history against relentless odds
Book review: The compelling story of trainees who put their bodies on the line to break into the electrical trades at Seattle City Light.
Netflix’s “Trotsky”: a hatchet job and a con job
Fake news: The brave, far-sighted co-leader of the Russian Revolution is portrayed as a bloodthirsty sex-monger.
Murder Incorporated: myths of US origin story exposed
Co-authored by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, this unique book exposes the early history of the United States that we were never taught in school.
What Latino Film Critics Are Saying About Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’
Remezcla.com offers commentaries on what many critics are calling the year’s best movie, now in theaters and on Netflix. (P.S. Also check out the director’s Children of Men.)
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