Category Archives: Volume 15, No. 2

Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. with Greg Albo and David Coates, Working Classes: Global Realities, Socialist Register 2001 (London, New York, and Halifax: The Merlin Press, Monthly Review Press, and Fernwood Press, 2000 and 2001). This thirty-seventh volume of … Continue reading →

August H. Nimtz, Jr.  Marx and Engels: Their Contributions to the Democratic Breakthrough.  Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000. “Standing up in front of real, live people and holding forth to them directly and straightforwardly, so that … Continue reading →

Bertell Ollman, How to Take an Exam… and Remake the World. Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2001. I’ve recently been embroiled in a collective anguishing over the exam and homework strategies of a 16 year-old scholar. And with no hope of … Continue reading →

Eric Parens and Adrienne Asch, eds., Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000). As I sit down to review this important and wide-ranging collection of essays about prenatal testing of embryos and fetuses in the interest … Continue reading →

Susanne Jonas, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000. For a small country, Guatemala has an impressive history.  In 1944, a revolution tried to make good on the democratic promise offered by allied victory in … Continue reading →

The struggle to forge an effective movement against global capital marked a new level this year with the April 20 and 21 demonstrations in Quebec City, against the Summit of the Americas.  Macdonald Stainsby gives us a participant’s account of … Continue reading →

Mumia Abu-Jamal, ed. Noelle Hanrahan, All things Censored.  Foreword by Alice Walker.  (New York, 7 Stories Press, 2000). The sheer feat of publishing All Things Censored reflects the enormity of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s accomplishment and his importance in today’s liberation struggle.  … Continue reading →

The essence of reparations is one aspect of the revolutionary struggle of the Afro American People for DEMOCRACY, i.e. equal citizenship rights and Self Determination. Reparations is a democratic demand and is both the confirmation and projection of Afro American … Continue reading →

Susanne Jonas, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000. For a small country, Guatemala has an impressive history.  In 1944, a revolution tried to make good on the democratic promise offered by allied victory in … Continue reading →

For most of the period since the fall of the dictatorship (1974) in Greece, trade unions have been holding two separate May Day celebrations:  one organized by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GCGL) and the Central Council of Public … Continue reading →