Lists of the best books of the year are an exercise in hubris. Even if I was to narrow things down to the relevant books for this site — most of the works published by independent left publishing houses like South End Press and AK, a sizable number of titles from academic publishers like Temple [...]
By Karen M. Gagne I am here with Yusef Bunchy Shakur, author of “Window 2 My Soul: My Transformation from a Zone 8 Thug to a Father and Freedom Fighter”, to talk about the book “Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther,” by Marshall “Eddie” Conway, former minister of defense of [...]
In light of the popular movements of today and the debate on democracy they triggered, we don’t even know if traditional party politics will be the most adequate vehicle to address the challenges related to globalization, financial capitalism, inequality or the environment. But, thanks to “What is Left of the Left?” we have a better [...]
Looking back on our first year of blogging, we got some things right and some things wrong. Most notably, long before Occupy Wall Street exploded, we insisted on the prospect that the American left would revive itself. This didn’t seem particularly counterintuitive, but there were plenty of experts stating otherwise. We are also happy to [...]
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