-
For texts of articles published within the past year, please contact us (info@sdonline.org) about buying a copy of the journal, or else contact our publishers through their website: www.tandf.co.uk/journals
-
Socialism & Democracy #75, November, 2017
Capitalism Today: Crisis and Response
Kevin B. Anderson, Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Revolutionary Reflections
Victor Wallis, Capitalism Unhinged: Crisis of Legitimacy in the United States
Hester Eisenstein, Comments on Victor Wallis’s “Capitalism Unhinged”
Gerald Meyer, Immigrant Rights: Repression and Resistance
Carl Grey Martin, Political Seizures: Lenin in 2017
Suren Moodliar (Moderator), The Party: What We Need and How to Get It (Roundtable, with remarks by Kali Akuno, Robert Caldwell, Johanna Fernández, Gerald Meyer, Matt Nelson, and Victor Wallis)
Articles
Emma Bell, Brexit and the Illusion of Democracy
Steve McGiffen, On Brexit and Democracy: Response to Emma Bell
Hamideh Sedghi, Trumpism: The Geopolitics of the United States, the Middle East and Iran
Reza Ghorashi, The Significance of Iran’s 2017 Presidential Election
Evangelis Papadimitropoulos, From the Crisis of Democracy to the Commons
Tom Powell, Korean War Biological Warfare Update
Review Essay
Michael Principe, Debunking a Myth or Distorting the Record? Samuel Farber on Che Guevara
Book Reviews
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition reviewed by Mat Callahan
Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race reviewed by Steven Delmagori
Sarah D. Wald, The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship and Farming since the Dust Bowl reviewed by Theo Majka
Paul Le Blanc, Left Americana: The Radical Heart of U.S. History reviewed by Paul Buhle
Michael Barker,Under the Mask of Philanthropy reviewed by Joan Roelofs
Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson and Peter N. Funke, eds., The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements reviewed by Peter Seybold
Samir Amin, The Reawakening of the Arab World: Challenges and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring reviewed by Yousef Khalil
Daniel Egan, The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver: Understanding Gramsci’s Military Metaphor reviewed by Joe Cleffie
Robert Roth, Book of Pieces reviewed by Barbara Conn
Film Review
Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel, When Two Worlds Collide reviewed by Gerardo Renique
Notes on Contributors
-
-
-
-
Category Archives: 74
Mat Callahan, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975
(Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2016), xxx + 308 pp., $22.95 California native, veteran musician, philosopher and revolutionary Mat Callahan covers a lot of ground in his new book about the tumultuous decade of 1965-75 in the San Francisco Bay Area. … Continue reading
Enzo Traverso, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945
(New York, Verso: 2016), 293 pp., $16.95 As we observe the centennials of the First World War and the October Revolution, we are reminded of the role played by violence in the political and cultural changes occurring during and between … Continue reading
Kim Scipes (ed.), Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization
(Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014), 259 pp. The changing strategies of the international labor solidarity movement reflect trends on the left and worldwide beginning with the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and globalization in the 1980s. The recognition … Continue reading
Ann Snitow. Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), 378 pp., $26.95 Written in the form of a non-linear diary, Ann Snitow’s Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary is divided into five parts. Part I, “Continuing a Gender Diary,” carries over the conversation from … Continue reading
Basuli Deb, Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture
(New York and London: Routledge, 2015), 232 pp., $148 In a milieu of heightened Islamophobic and racist attitudes across the globe, Basuli Deb’s book is a must read. The book disrupts the designation of terrorism to racialized bodies, in a … Continue reading
Sheila Rowbotham, Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
(London: Verso, 2016), 502 pp., $34.95. Rebels with Many Causes I first heard the name Helena Born in a graduate course taught by the historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. A neglected figure in both British and American radical history, Born … Continue reading
Andrew Cornell, Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
(Berkeley: University of California Press), 2016, 416 pp., $29.95 Thanks no doubt to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the growing sense that social movements are likely to spring up almost of their own accord, and then fall away, … Continue reading
John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique
(Leiden: Brill, 2016), 326 pp., $149 With the increased threat of climate change and the growing recognition that business as usual responses cannot adequately deal with it, John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett’s Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique makes … Continue reading
Lebowitz, Michael A., The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
(New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015), 224 pp., $22.00. We live in a time of increasing peril and dizzying contradiction. Nowhere is this more evident than in the rise of Donald Trump – a billionaire born with a gold-plated silver … Continue reading
John Feffer, Splinterlands
(Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016), 151 pp., $13.95 Fears of Fragmentation In his controversial study of the decline of capitalism, How Will Capitalism End? (2016), Wolfgang Streeck, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne, envisages the termination of today’s “failing … Continue reading