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A Response to Hannah Ritchie: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...
This piece is not going to be my usual point-by-point debunking. First, I’ve been doing plenty of that already (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) and there is nothing special in Hannah...
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Understanding the Doppelganger Gang
I didn’t actually think the author of The Shock Doctrine could write a less than wonderful book but I really wasn’t interested in a book about people confusing her (Naomi Klein) with Naomi Wolf, or any...
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Must We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth?
If the late, great egalitarian U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis were looking down on us today and chanced upon a copy of the gripping new book from the egalitarian European philosopher Ingrid...
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Would Frantz Fanon Have Supported the Oct. 7 Massacre? His Biographer Isn’t...
On the morning of October 7, as images of the torn fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel proliferated on social media, so too did quotations by Frantz Fanon. The writings of this Martinique-born...
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“Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from...
The new Oscar-nominated film Io Capitano follows young Senegalese migrants on their journey from West Africa to Europe. “We wanted to … give visual form to a part of the journey that we don’t see,”...
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The Man Who Changed Colors
Dashiell Hammett, the key writer in the twentieth-century detective novel both in print and in screen adaptations of his work, had it right. “The Butler Did It,” the answer to the mystery in a...
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Shadows of Coloniality
For most Malawians, encounters with the history of the country have often been a recycled tale centered on the legacy of Dr Kamuzu Banda, the founding father. Notwithstanding, Muti Phoya is one of the...
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Forced Migration and Detention Are the Real Immigration Crisis
Review of Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System by Bill Ong Hing (Beacon Press, 2023) A photograph by Brandon Bell, distributed by CNN, shows fifteen beefy men in...
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E. P. Thompson at 100
On the 3rd of February 2024, the late E. P. Thompson who was the seminal intellectual and historian on social struggle would have turned 100 years old. For decades, his insightful and illuminating work...
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The AFL-CIO Can be Reformed
Changing the leadership, structure, or functioning of any U.S. labor organization is no easy task. Activists and experts have long argued about whether dysfunctional unions are best reformed from the...
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Portraits of Widening Wealth Divide: On New Work by Matthew Desmond, Robert...
The American sense of a rigged or broken economic system has been erupting across the political spectrum. Encampments that occupied Wall Street shouted “Banks got bailed out! We got sold out!” A few...
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Seven Strategies to Change the World
David Swanson and Stephanie Luce discuss a new book called PRACTICAL RADICALS: SEVEN STRATEGIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce.
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Practical Radical: Seven Strategies to Change the World, A Book Review
“Legendary organizer Bayard Rustin, a consummate practical radical, criticized two other dominant ways of approaching social change: ‘My quarrel with the ‘no-win’ tendency in the civil rights movement...
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Americanizing France: the Marshall Plan, Reconsidered
Reflections inspired by a new book by Annie Lacroix-Riz, Les origines du plan Marshall: Le mythe de “l’aide” américaine, Armand Colin, Malakoff, 2023. Last summer, motoring from Paris to Nice through...
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W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of...
W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists argue that he has yet to receive due recognition as the founding father of American sociology. His groundbreaking...
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How Israel Quietly Crushed Early American Jewish Dissent on Palestine
The Israeli government covertly meddled into American Jewish politics from the 1950s to 1970s, and they did so to quash Jewish criticisms of the 1948 Nakba — the mass dispossession and expulsions of...
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Book Reviews: Fighting Wall Street’s War on Workers and the Corporate BS that...
One of the occupational hazards of being a labor activist is over-exposure to “corporate bullshit”—on the job, in the community, and in politics. When workers try to win collective bargaining rights,...
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Memory Failure
In March 1960, Konrad Adenauer, the chancellor of West Germany, met his Israeli counterpart, David Ben-Gurion, in New York. Eight years earlier, Germany had agreed to pay millions of marks in...
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Jason Hickel’s Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Kim Scipes reviews Jason Hickel’s Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. Looking through the lens of climate change, Jason Hickel’s 2020 book is a powerful indictment of capitalism. Finished...
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How Climate Fiction Reflects Reality
A comparative review of the climate fiction books “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson and “The Deluge”, by Stephen Markley. Sci-fi is never really about the future. It’s about the...
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Is Another Anarchism Possible?
Matthew Wilson teaches at Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University) where he lectures on People, Organisation and Business. He is an active participant in the UK cooperative movement and is the author of...
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The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is the claim that India, under Gandhi’s leadership, defeated the mighty...
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These Stunning Images Show Palestinian Life Before the Nakba
Review of Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro; foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket, 2024) The photograph almost...
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Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving — and Workers Writhing
How do you know when you can finally rate as certifiably super rich? One simple test: You can look at the menu that greeted the over 100 wealthy souls who gathered earlier this month at the Palm Beach...
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Haiti’s Disintegration and US Foreign Policy
We may be seeing an uptick in news on Haiti in the American mainstream media in the coming months. We may even hear calls for US military intervention in the country. Haiti seems to be literally...
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Limits of Green Capitalism
Despite the rather common neoliberal hallucination of eternal growth, the Club of Rome’s seminal study “Limits to Growth” (1972), showed that the catechism-like faith into endless growth, fabricated by...
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The Country That Tried To Control Sex
When the cultural historian Clair Wills was in graduate school at Oxford in the late 1980s, she became pregnant by accident. She was 25 and single, with little money and no job. Still, she decided to...
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Outraged by White Rural Rage
I don’t like to slam books, especially those ahead of mine on the best seller list. It might seem like petty jealousy. But one recent release, White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, is...
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Who Will Be the Village Voice of the 21st Century?
Review of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs, 2024) When Village Voice columnist...
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Seeking Fantasies Across The Sea
A young boy, no more than sixteen, steers a battered trawler boat with an unyielding focus on the darkness ahead. Between the congestion of bodies on board, a pregnant woman passes in and out of...
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