Ian Scott Horst Like Ho Chi Minh! Like Che Guevara! The Revolutionary Left in Ethiopia, 1969-1979 Foreign Language Press, Paris, 2020. 502 pp., $10.00 In both the popular imagination and the memory

The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit. Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom.

Just now I tried three times to reply to a message. As I get to the end I rapidly run through my “signature” and my message disappears. The third time I slowed down and the message still

How New York City’s Police Unions Embraced Trump The unions’ leadership is mostly white, suburban and Republican, setting it apart from an increasingly diverse

Clenched fists predate the hammer and sickle as a symbol for strikes and worker militance in general. Big Bill Haywood and the Wobblies used it as long ago as 1913 and it doubtless predates that.

These headlines recallthe early years of the 20th century when, for working people, the U.S. was at bestan aspirational democracy. Back then the carrot-and-stick methods thatDeJoy used—repaying

The world is still full of Marxists also. I am not telling you to think as a Marxist, just think independently and to read between the lines, even between the letters. Philosophy 101, which is

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"No Marx is going to save you." So why tell Marxists how to think as Marxists? The world is full of ex-Marxists. This patronizing religious recruitment is all about finding Jesus so to speak. It has

History repeats, Marx once said, first as tragedy and then as comedy. In mid-July, a group of putative conservative intellectuals gathered in Washington to confirm a new, nationalist

Perhaps it's in the nature of an American civic culture steeped in the fetish for advertising labels, but it's worth remembering that a formation that does not call itself working class is not

Spooky and haunting doc. There is a saying in japanese that says “When a man is has to survive doing something, it’s the nuclear industry; for a woman, it’s the sex industry.” “Otoko wa

Yesterday and today I watched a cow farmer wring the last drops of water out of a mountain stream that runs through our property and on down into the Roche Jaune River (let’s say)—at least during

In The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today (OR Books, 2020), the journalist Jason Boog writes about the plight of writers in the United States since the

The real question: why cant academics become employed academics writing like that?

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The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows an average 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the

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Remi and Niko join Comrade Adam from Red Library to discuss Kohei Saito’s Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism. We