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THEORY
Jan Rehmann, Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Hegemony: A Gramscian Analysis
George C. Comninel, Critical Thinking and Class Analysis: Historical Materialism and Social Theory
REPRESSION & RESISTANCE
Steve Martinot, Probing the Epidemic of Police Murders
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Political Struggle in the Teeth of Prison Reaction: From Virginia to Oregon
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PROBLEMS OF TRANSITION
Robert Weil, Yuanmingyuan Revisited: The Confrontation of China and the West
Robert Ware, Reflections on Chinese Marxism
Darko Suvin, Splendours and Miseries of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1945-74)
BOOK REVIEWS
Tadeusz Kowalik, From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland reviewed by Ludmila Melchior-Yahil
Immanuel Ness, Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism reviewed by Bai Ruixue
Kate Hudson, The New European Left: A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century? reviewed by Steve McGiffen
George Katsiaficas, Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Vol. 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century reviewed by Michael Munk
Benjamin Shepard, Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution reviewed by Ryan Conrad
Ronnie Kasrils, The Unlikely Secret Agent reviewed by Suren Moodliar
David Gilbert, Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond reviewed by B. Loewe
Carl Davidson, ed., Revolutionary Youth & the New Working Class: The Praxis Papers, the Port Authority Statement, the RYM Documents and Other Lost Writings of SDS reviewed by George Fish
Notes on Contributors
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Lobbying the European Commission: Open or Secret?1
It is already widely recognized not only that there is little popular involvement in the European Union’s decision-making, but also that there is scant public knowledge of ‘who’ its decision-makers actually are (McGiffen 2005; Chari & Kritzinger 2006). In particular, … Continue reading
US-EU Defence Relations: Competitors – or Partners in Crime?
“As its foreign policy shows, the United States is clearly distancing itself from the common set of values defined after the tragic experiences of World Wars I and II and shared by Europeans and Americans in the framework of the … Continue reading
War, Xenophobia, and the Death Agony of the Danish Social Democratic Welfare State
This paper analyzes how the Danish welfare state and socialism in Denmark have declined since the 1970s, and how this has accelerated since the beginning of the century. The reasons for this can be found in the hegemonic shift in … Continue reading
Only Nazi Games? Berlin 1936:The Olympic Games between Sports and Politics1
At the 29th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1931, delegates met in Barcelona, Spain to determine the location of the 11th Olympic Summer Games. One month later the IOC awarded the 1936 Olympic Games to Berlin. While … Continue reading
Paths to Development through Trade: EU-Led Trade Liberalization vs. South-South Cooperation
Historical background Since its inception in 1957, the member states of the European Economic Community (EEC) have been actively expanding their trade with the more dependent states in the Global South through consecutive treaties.1 The signing of the Cariforum-European Community … Continue reading
Raya Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx, eds. Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002)
This excellent volume offers a unique collection of essays, correspondences, drafts, presentations and papers that effectively span Raya Dunayevskaya’s later years after the break with Trotsky (1938) and C.L.R. James (mid-1950s). The documents are clearly presented and are well-chosen, offering … Continue reading
Ennis Carter, ed., Posters for the People: Art of the WPA (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2008)
Ennis Carter, has assembled almost 500 artistically accomplished and socially consequential posters produced by the Poster Division of the Federal Arts Program (a project of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, or WPA). Her short Introduction notes that artists engaged … Continue reading
Martin Carnoy, Cuba’s Academic Advantage (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007)
Over the past thirty years, when researchers and educators visited classrooms in Cuba and in other countries, Cuban pupils in every grade seemed to know much more math and seemed to read better. In the late 1990s, an international organization, … Continue reading
Michael A. Lebowitz, The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development (Monthly Review Press, 2010)
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been blazing the path to a 21st century socialism, a socialism that puts in first place human development rather than development of the forces of production or bringing them under state control. This has required a … Continue reading
John Gerassi, editor and translator, Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009)
From the imaginary “crabs” which haunted him in his earlier years to his belief that the US was more capable of starting a nuclear war than the Soviet Union, these conversations with Sartre by John Gerassi attempt to pin down … Continue reading