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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).

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 they see and hear you, is something quite different from engaging in this devilishly abstract quill-pushing with an abstract audience in one’s mind’s eye.”
-- Engels to Marx

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 a quick resolution: it seems that college, unfortunately, can be the extension of high school by similar means.

Eric Parens and Adrienne Asch, eds., Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000).

Susanne Jonas, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000.

Mumia Abu-Jamal, ed. Noelle Hanrahan, All things Censored.  Foreword by Alice Walker.  (New York, 7 Stories Press, 2000).

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 Employee Unions (ADEDY), which attracts trade unionists who lean to the governing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the New Left Alliance (NLA), and the conservative New Democracy (ND) party, and another organized by trade unionists affiliated with the Greek Communist Party (KKE).

We must all be thankful to Professor Kang Ouyang for his clear and concise summary of the main tendencies in Marxist philosophy in China, a country whose development is becoming ever more important to the fate of the entire world. It is an impressive list. I was especially pleased to learn of the growing interest in Marx’s theory of alienation and his theory of truth, and of the widespread opposition to all kinds of dogmatism. The question now arises of how to interpret and judge Professor Ouyang’s remarks in these and related areas.

Introduction: Metro Marx