"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."
Friday, March 30, 2018
Friday, March 23, 2018
Flashing for the Refugees on the Unarmed Road of Flight
A Review of Ramzy Baroud's The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/23/flashing-for-the-refugees-on-the-unarmed-road-of-flight/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/23/flashing-for-the-refugees-on-the-unarmed-road-of-flight/
Friday, March 16, 2018
Trump and His Tariffs
Any benefits workers obtain in a capitalist economy are the result of struggle, not the gifts of the owners and financiers. Supporting the tariffs because of some imagined short term gain is merely buying into neoliberal capitalism’s con game.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/16/trump-and-his-tariffs/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/16/trump-and-his-tariffs/
Friday, March 9, 2018
Friday, March 2, 2018
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Monday, February 19, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
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, February 2, 2018
A History of Resistance--A Review of An African-American and Latinx History of the United States
Monday, January 29, 2018
Still Tripping....a New Essay Collection

Friday, January 26, 2018
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, January 5, 2018
All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Labels:
20th century,
AK Press,
antifa,
book review,
capitalism,
fascism,
human rights,
left,
nazism
Friday, December 29, 2017
Friday, December 22, 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
Sinking in the Swamp
The swamp is not being drained. It is becoming more toxic by
the day. It is now ebb tide at the pig farm and the sewage is in the pool where
your children go to swim.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/15/sinking-in-the-swamp/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/15/sinking-in-the-swamp/
Friday, December 8, 2017
Monday, December 4, 2017
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