#34 - Summer-Fall, 2003
The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq mark a new level of brazenness in Washington's defiance of world opinion. With it, media manipulation has surged, while the financial hurdles to dissident candidates remain daunting as ever....
Cuba
Condemnation of Cuba was immediate, strong and practically global last month for the imprisonment of 75 political dissidents and for the summary execution of 3 ferry hijackers. Prominent among the critics were past friends of Cuba of...
[This article is an edited version of a talk given on May 8, 2003 at the Brecht Forum in New York City. New York constitutional law attorney Leonard Weinglass has handled significant political cases since the sixties. A graduate of...
Radical Visions
Among the factors fomenting tensions between ecology and Marxism, perhaps the most important is the widespread view that Marx's vision of post-capitalist society not only treats natural conditions as effectively limitless but also...
This essay calls for a coalition of reform-minded groups that are developing new and remarkably congruent philosophies. What the groups have in common is resistance to being defined by the "other." The essay starts with Afrocentricity...
Agency-the belief that one's actions can have an effect on political outcomes-is vital to any striving group.1 What agency are Blacks given by utopian authors and what solutions to the problems faced by blacks do these...
The historian Joel A. Rogers, in World's Great Men of Color, describes the brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) as "the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time" and...
Racial Identity and U.S. Imperialism
When White northern teachers flocked to the South after the Civil War to educate the newly emancipated Blacks, there seemed to be one common sentiment among the educators in regard to their new pupils, made clear by the following...
From the beginning, the movement that tried to stop the assault on Iraq knew it was a racist war, just on the face of it. A white imperialism was Eurocentrically attacking a derogated people of color through the usual criminalizing...
Background
Surprisingly scant attention has been given to the links between HIV/AIDS and the role of US neo-colonial rule in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, whose population of 3.8 million makes it the most densely...
Activism
It's a long road down to Kananaskis
It's a short road back the other way
If the cops pull you over to the side of the road
You won't have nothing to say
No, you won't have nothing to say
In his recent work, Socialism or Barbarism, István Mészáros issues a clarion call for the transformation of the capitalist system into a socialist one.1 Mészáros is aware of the daunting nature of this challenge, for...
Document
We are radical scholars and intellectuals. Many of us are activist-academics who work in, around, and in spite of institutions of higher education. Many of us are activist-scholars and activist-intel- lectuals who work in non-academic...
Reviews
Lawrence Blum, "I'm Not a Racist, But." (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).
Blum's primary concern in "I'm Not a Racist, But." is to combat the "inflation" of the term "racism" to cover...
Keith Gilyard, Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003).
When Black Writers Were on the Left
"The Negro...
John Trumpbour, Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), illustrated.
A mere 10 years...
Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003).
Joan Roelofs's Foundations and Public Policy brings much needed attention...
Randy Martin, On Your Marx: Rethinking Socialism and the Left (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2002)
Those of us who would like to bring Marx back to the concrete tasks of theory-building and...
Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Briefwechsel Oktober 1864 Bis Dezember 1865 [The First International and the American Civil War]. Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe III, vol. 13. Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung...
The New Left Revisited. Edited by John McMillian and Paul Buhle (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003).
The New Left Revisited went to press shortly after the attack on...
Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che (London & New York: Verso, 2002).
This is a sui generis volume on a subject-Third World Marxism in the US and its major...
Signe Waller, Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir: People's History of the Greensboro Massacre, It's Setting and Aftermath (London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
On...
Mark D. Naison, White Boy: A Memoir (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002).
For two months I have carried an increasingly dog-eared copy of White Boy: A Memoir, by Professor Mark Naison...
Jerald Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
During New York's fiscal crisis, which began in 1975 and...
Seymour Melman, After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2001).
Seymour Melman is a remarkable man: a student in the New York Public School system, 1922-35,...
Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre, Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, trans. by Catherine Porter (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)
This book is a comprehensive survey of the many different...
Roger S. Gottlieb, Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change (Cambridge, Mass.: Westview Press, 2002)
Joining Hands presents an outstanding and critical analysis of the...
Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? (London: Zed Books, 2002).
"Truth is stranger than fiction," it is said, and lest one be put off by the apocalyptic title,...
Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom, From 1776 Until Today; Preface by Herbert Marcuse, and a new Foreword by Joel Kovel (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2000...
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Philip Agee was a CIA operations officer for 11 years and worked in several Latin American countries. His writings include Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975) and On the Run (1987). In 1999 he founded...