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John H. McClendon III, C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?  (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004).

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels: Briefwechsel Januar 1858 bis August 1859. Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe III/9. Edited by Vera Morozowa, Marina Uzar, Elena Vaščenko and Juergen Rojahn, in cooperation with Ursula Balzer, Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Amsterdam (Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 2003). [1301 pp.]

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Aged by Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

David R. Roediger, Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (University of California Press, 2002).

David Roediger’s most recent book is a gem.  This collection of readable essays helps us to better appreciate what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “color line” in the U.S.   Colored White builds on two earlier collections of Roediger’s essays: The Wages of Whiteness (1991) and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness (1994).  Roediger is arguably America’s top scholar of critical whiteness studies.

Philip Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer, eds., The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism (Westport: Praeger, 2003).

Robert J.S. Ross, Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004) and Immanuel Ness, Immigrants, Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005).

Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishers, 2004).

On the Caribbean island of Cuba stands a foreboding outpost of American imperial  power—Guantánamo Naval  Base.  There, hundreds of men, drawn from all over the world, are entombed in what one British court has called a “legal black hole.”

One of the key struggles of the current period, one that poses a great challenge to the Left, involves state control of borders and the movement of people.  Canadian and US governments, under the cover provided by September 11, are devising joint agreements around border controls and immigration criteria.  There has even been chilling talk from some authorities about establishing a continental perimeter, a "Fortress North America."  As many commentators have pointed out, these practices are also about strengthening the government's hand in fighting the globalization struggles at a time when

An attempt to prioritize strategic objectives for the Left, toward pushing social forces beyond capitalism here in amerika or abroad, should begin with determining the primary contradictions between the oppressed social forces and those that do the oppressing.  Three contradictory relations can be said to exist within the oppressive system of global capitalism, viz: the exploitation of all laboring classes by the capitalists, the exploitation of 3rd-World people by imperialism, and the alliance of white workers (and some integrationist ethnic elements) with their imperialist master