Reviews of: City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran Scribe, 320 pp., $20.00 (paper) Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, with contributions by Amy Hawkins Columbia Glo

(As I mentioned, the NY Review of books used to have a mixture of articles that were paywalled and free. This no longer seems to be the case. You can read any article or articles by signing up for a f

Chris Wright details the popular campaign for the Communist authored Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, a moment in US labor history that is overshadowed by Roosevelt’s more conservative New Deal p

The neoliberal turn in global capitalism invests the hive mind of ‘the market’ itself with a kind of limit-busting, self-perfecting intelligence that brooks no opposition to any constraints human reas

Kit Adam Wainer argues that President Trump is in no position to steal an election or to lead a coup. https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/10/a-very-american-coup/

Women Lead Nationwide Strike in Poland Over Abortion Law The leader of Poland’s ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, accused demonstrators of seeking the destruction of the nation and appealed to support

https://socialistworker.org/2018/08/20/precedents-for-flexibility Did Lenin Advocate Tactical Support for a Capitalist Party? Nate Moore | In the current SW debate, some have considered whether to cri

Almost redeeming themselves after their support for Sanders. https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/10/28/why-the-left-shouldnt-support-joe-biden/

https://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/2020/10/us-election-will-be-watershed.html

I can think of no other scholar who has written more about Lenin’s electoral strategy than August Nimtz, an ex-SWPer who has taught at the University of Minnesota for many years. I got in touch with h

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https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/industry-totals?highlight=y&ind=F27&src=a Hedge Funds & Private Equity Donations Candidate Total Joe Biden (D) $42,615,810 Donald Trump (R) $9,366,58

Louis Proyect posted an article from Eric Blanc calling for a vote for Biden. Although I opposed campaigning for Sanders, and all other Democrats, I agreed with much of what Blanc wrote. Especially ac

NY Times, Oct. 28, 2020 When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children By Parul Sehgal The Kidnapping Club Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War By Jonathan Danie

Washington Post, Oct. 26, 2020 at 9:39 p.m. EDT Diane di Prima, feminist poet of the Beat Generation, dies at 86 By Emily Langer Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most signific

NY Times, Oct. 28, 2020 As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science By Christopher Flavelle and Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has recently removed the chi

http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/alberto-toscano-long-shadow-racial-fascism

Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2020 at 5:13 a.m. EDT National Guard requested as protests over Walter Wallace killing engulf Philadelphia By Robert Klemko, Katie Shepherd and Maura Ewing PHILADELPHIA — On

Posted on FB by Bruce Robbins: Two weeks ago a letter was sent to Columbia University President Bollinger, mildly protesting the fact that, after 61% of Columbia College students voted in a referendum

After Laura Arata first visited Virginia City, Montana in graduate school, she became fascinated by the story of one historical figure—Sarah Bickford, a former slave, who migrated to this frontier, mi