New Book: How the World Works – The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
By Paul Cockshott. From Monthly Review Press: Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the econ
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New Book: The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
By Nancy Folbre. From Verso: In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Ma
New Book: The Coming of the American Behemoth – The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940
By Michael Joseph Roberto. From Monthly Review Press Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fa
Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle
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New Book: The Russians Are Coming, Again – The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
by Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano. From Monthly Review Press: Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire o
New Book: A World to Win – The Life and Works of Karl Marx
by Sven-Eric Liedman Translated by Jeffrey N. Skinner. From Verso: In this essential new biography—the first to give e
New Book: Leftism Reinvented – Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
By Stephanie L. Mudge. From Harvard University Press: Left-leaning political parties play an important role as repre
New Book: The Half-Life of Deindustrialization – Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
By Sherry Lee Linkon. From University of Michigan Press: Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American ind
New Book: Class War, USA – Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
by Brandon Weber. From Haymarket Books: An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United Sta
Call for papers: Labor and History in the 21st Century
40th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2018 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Th
Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD)
At a meeting on the evening of Friday, January 3, 2003, at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Associati
New Book: The Moral Economists – R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism
By Tim Rogan. From Princeton University Press: What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on m
New Book: Racism in the Neoliberal Era – A Meta History of Elite White Power
By Randolph Hohle. From Routledge: Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white
New Book: Red Flag Unfurled – History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution
by Ronald Grigor Suny. From Verso: Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ro
The Real Economic Consequences of Martin Luther
By Brendan Cook, Instructor, Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of South Florida, and Scot
New Book: The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
by Ron Ramdin. From Verso: In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black wo
Marx’s “Capital” at 150: History in Capital, Capital in History
By Radhika Desai, ‘Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time’, Engels remarked in his graveside orat
July-August 2017 Issue of Monthly Review: On Revolution & Counterrevolution
In this special issue, the variety of views to which the magazine is open should be evident. On a topic as ambitious as “Re
Links to Recent Articles of Interest by Historians Against War (HAW)
h/t Cyrus Bina “Killing Bill O’Reilly:The Disgraced Broadcaster’s Distortions of History” By Matthew Stevenson,
Hobsbawm’s Long Century
By Joseph Fronczak One long century ago, on June 9, 1917, not quite halfway between the February Revolution and the Octo