#63 - November 2013
When Socialism and Democracy participated in the 2nd US Social Forum (Detroit, 2010), we described our publication as “a research journal for activists.” As our Mission Statement also reminds us, we try to address many...
…nothing to expect but - a hiding. -- Marx, Capital, Vol. I1
The Notion of Citizenship
The notion of citizenship is, so to speak, on the agenda. Facing crises in communal life...
This year’s summer Institute on Culture and Society, the spirited annual gathering of the Marxist Literary Group (MLG), featured an intensive week of intellectual exchange and political engagement, bringing together radical scholars and...
When the US housing bubble burst in 2007, turned into a financial crisis, and then into a global economic crisis, economists generated different explanations and remedies for what had happened. The most commonly heard explanations in...
For the first time since the General Strike in Britain in 1926, the two biggest member unions of the national Trades Union Council (TUC), Unite and Unison, which together organise over three million private and public...
The intermediary bourgeois (our ruling elite) cannot claim political leadership openly on the grounds that he is, or wants to be, an exporter, shareholder, rentier or rich bureaucrat. He has to take over as a Muslim or Christian. He...
This article explores the Palestine-solidarity call and movement advocating for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel. I examine the significance of the BDS call made in 2005 by Palestinian civil society, along with the...
Harilyn Rousso, Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013).
Halfway through her memoir, Harilyn Rousso writes:
. . .I have...
D. H. Melhem
As a tribute to our late colleague, here are two poems from her last collection, followed by an appreciation by Robert Roth. The poems appeared in D. H. Melhem, Art and Politics / Politics and Art (Syracuse: Syracuse University...
I’m holding on to the rail, the ride is so fast.
--C.I.
Yes—let’s hold on tightly as we watch
the waters rise from melting polar icecaps
where bears float off on floes abducting them—
mystified,...
My mother had just returned from three harrowing months of being in hospitals and rehab centers. She was half out of her mind, disoriented and frightened and angry. Nothing seemed to be able to pull her out of it.
She had a piece...
Book Reviews
Larry Patriquin, ed., The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2012)
Within the first pages of The Time Machine (1895), H. G. Wells quickens the conceptual engine of his plot...
George Yancy, Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012).
W.E.B. Du Bois famously described the consciousness of African Americans as double, as...
Christopher Z. Hobson, The Mount of Vision: African-American Prophetic Tradition, 1800-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Christopher Hobson’s Mount of Vision is a discerning and...
Gene Holland, Nomad Citizenship, Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2011)
In their final collaborative book What Is Philosophy? (...
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Sriram Ananth is a writer, researcher and activist currently living in Toronto. He is active in a number of social justice movements and is currently completing a PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota. He...