Al Campbell is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Utah, and a longtime member of the Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics. His research interests are the nature of contemporary capitalism and more human-centered alternatives. His most recent book is the edited volume Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy (2013). al@economics.utah.edu
Klaus Dorre, Stephan Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique (New York: Verso Press, 2015), 342 pp., $24.95.
Cuba’s Organs of People’s Power (OPP) function at three levels: municipal, provincial and national. There are 168 municipal assemblies. The City of Havana, because of its size, is divided into several municipalities, with the city as a whole considered as a province. Municipal assembly delegates represent districts (circumscripciones) within the municipality. Candidates are nominated by constituents in street meetings held within the districts.2 The Cuban Communist Party (PCC) has no role in selecting municipal assembly candidates.
Stanley Aronowitz, The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement (New York: Verso, 2014), 192 pp., $26.95.
Lucia Pradella, Globalisation and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx's Writings (New York: Routledge, 2015), 218 pp., hardcover, $155
Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso 2015) 148 pages, $23.95
Tamás Krausz, Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography [trans. Balint Bethlenfalvy with Mario Fenyo] (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015), 552 pp., $34
Seamus O’Malley, Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 296 pp., $53.
Sean Matgamma (ed.), The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: Debates, essays and confrontations of post-Trotsky (London: Workers Liberty, 2015), 780 pp., $30.