Inside DSA’s struggle to move into the political mainstream
By Doug Henwood, Future historians may well portray the second decade of the twenty-first century as the moment when Am
New Book: Voices of Latin America – Social Movements and the New Activism
Edited by Tom Gatehouse. From Monthly Review Press: These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democ
New Book: Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
By Michael E. Tigar. From Monthly Review Press: Lawyers confront mythologies in the context of their profession. But t
New Book: For a Left Populism
By Chantal Mouffe. From Verso: Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is mo
New Book: Identifying a Free Society – Conditions and Indicators
by Milan Zafirovski. From Haymarket Books: In Identifying a Free Society Milan Zafirovski offers a holistic sociolog
New Book: Economics for Sustainable Prosperity
By Steven Hail. From Palgrave Macmillan: The central argument of this book is that the foundations for sustainable pro
New Book: Feminist Freedom Warriors – Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope
Edited by Linda Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. From Haymarket Books: A collection of compelling narratives highl
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: 50 Years of Socialist Feminism
2019 marks 50 years since the publication of Margaret Benston’s “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” a semi
3rd International Marxist-Feminist Conference 2018: Transforming our lives. Transforming the world.
Lund University (Lund, Sweden), October 6-7, 2018. In March 2015 over 500 scholars and activists participated in the f
Call for papers: Freedom and Justice Summer Conference 2018
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
MLK’s Radical Anti-Capitalism
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In a posthumously published essay, Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed out that the “black rev
Remembering MLK’s Roots in Labor and Socialist Movements of the 20th Century
By Nathan Newman, As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, it’s worth remembering that his legacy was based firm
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: Full Employment and Social Justice
Edited by Michael J. Murray & Mathew Forstater. From Palgrave: This edited collection investigates how full empl
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: How We Get Free – Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. From Haymarket Books: The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of ra
New Book: Marx and Social Justice – Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy
By George E. McCarthy. From Brill: In Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensiv
Left Coast Forum 2017: State of the Struggle
With the grim racist, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-labor ideology that has grasped much of the nation’s politic
New Book: Black Liberation and the American Dream – The Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice
Edited by Paul Le Blanc. From Haymarket Books: Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary t