https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/consider-the-commune-venezuela-and-beyond/
"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2024
Friday, October 28, 2022
Friday, October 9, 2020
Friday, July 26, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
Friday, October 12, 2018
Sunday, October 7, 2018
Friday, July 13, 2018
Vermont: Can It Happen Here?
A look at two new books regarding Vermont's history since World War Two.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/13/vermont-can-it-happen-here/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/13/vermont-can-it-happen-here/
Friday, February 9, 2018
In the Spirit of the Tsar: FBI Informants on the Central Committee
Labels:
1960s,
1970s,
book review,
civil liberties,
COINTELPRO,
communism,
Counterpunch,
FBI,
informers,
leftist,
RCP,
RU
Friday, January 19, 2018
Friday, January 12, 2018
The Vietnamese War: a Different Take
A review of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam.
Friday, November 17, 2017
Private Property Does Not Equal Freedom
A review of Negri and Hardt's 2017 title Assembly...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/17/private-property-does-not-equal-freedom/
Monday, September 25, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Friday, June 9, 2017
Friday, May 19, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
One Hundred Years That Shook the World
It’s as if John Reed, author of the classic piece of revolutionary journalism, Ten Days That Shook the World, woke from a decades-long sleep to tell the story of 1917 once again. Although there is less personal detail, the sweep of Miéville’s story is equal to Reed’s in its breadth while matching it in passion. It is Reed’s contention that the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers were at the front of the revolution. One hundred years later, Miéville’s telling agrees.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/27/one-hundred-years-that-shook-the-world/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/27/one-hundred-years-that-shook-the-world/
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Syria: Beyond Western Myths and Half-Truths
A book about history that is ignored by so many....not meant as an endorsement of Assad and his army but certain to be taken that way by those unwilling or unable to look at the broader picture...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/11/syria-beyond-western-myths-and-half-truths/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/11/syria-beyond-western-myths-and-half-truths/
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