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Some Notes on the Year in Left Books

Before the year was over, Occupy books were already being published.

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 [...]

January 17th, 2012 | Posted in Book Industry News,News Blog | Read More »

A Conversation With Yusef Bunchy Shakur about “Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther” by Marshall “Eddie” Conway

Yusef Bunchy Shakur (photo Karen 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 the Black Panther Party, [...]

January 8th, 2012 | Posted in Author Interviews | Read More »

Do Social Democratic Parties Have a Future?

While Barack Obama and the Democrats triumphed at the polls in 2008, their ascent did not result in a dramatic swing to the left. (photo: realjameso16/Creative Commons)

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 [...]

January 8th, 2012 | Posted in Reviews | Read More »

A Year in News Blog Posts

We are going to go out on a limb here and declare Occupy Wall Street the top news story for the American Left in 2011. (Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons)

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 [...]

January 2nd, 2012 | Posted in News Blog | Read More »

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