Book Review

Palestine And The Role Of The Activist Intellectual

July 13, 2026 Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Activism, Book Review, Campus Movement, Columbia University, Higher Education, Palestine, State Repression, Student Activism

Bruce Robbins is a professor of literature at Columbia. His new book Who’s Allowed to Protest explores the new McCarthyism in which campus supporters of justice for Palestine serve as the “new Communists, identified in the media… as supporters of violence and terror whose presence in American institutions is intolerable.” Liberals have failed to defend the protesters’ rights, Robbins writes. While right-wing critics have sought to discredit the protesters as spoiled elitists, and the left-wing critique of “unwarranted privilege” has also undermined the role of elites. Robbins’s book responds by outlining the obligations of the privileged to speak out.

The Yippies And The Power Of Counterculture

July 11, 2026 Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Book Review, Counterculture, History, Radical activism, Yippies

Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, an authoritarian presidency has been accompanied by a brutal crackdown on social movements. While there are strikingly new features of Trump’s reign, many of the assaults on freedom and the persecution of activists have parallels in the histories of U.S. imperialism, the anti-Vietnam war movement and the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of the right in the 1980s. And many of the questions organizers are asking today were in debate then. How do you balance militant activism with the need to build a mass movement?

Who Will Defend The Public University?

June 7, 2026 Laurie Adkin, Canadian Dimension. Create! Book Review, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Public Universities

The contributors to Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities, edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch, identify many contemporary pressures on institutions of higher learning in capitalist countries, drawing mostly on the experiences of universities in the Anglo-American sphere. Among the issues discussed in this book are the neoliberal and managerial restructuring of universities; the conservative backlash against demands for social justice; the colonial and imperialist foundations of Western universities and the dominance of English-language publications in global science, and; the argument that universities should maintain “institutional neutrality” with regard to social and political phenomena like the genocide being committed in Palestine by Israel.The contributors to Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities, edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch, identify many contemporary pressures on institutions of higher learning in capitalist countries, drawing mostly on the experiences of universities in the Anglo-American sphere. Among the issues discussed in this book are the neoliberal and managerial restructuring of universities; the conservative backlash against demands for social justice; the colonial and imperialist foundations of Western universities and the dominance of English-language publications in global science, and; the argument that universities should maintain “institutional neutrality” with regard to social and political phenomena like the genocide being committed in Palestine by Israel.

Sailing Toward A Reimagined Past: A Review Of ‘Freedom Ship’

May 23, 2026 Sam E. Anderson, Pambazuka. Educate! Black Liberation, Book Review, History, Slavery

The story of the Underground Railroad has long been etched into the American imagination as a terrestrial drama: a network of hidden attics, candlelit tunnels, and midnight journeys through moonlit forests and swamps. This land-based narrative, while powerful, has always contained a glaring geographical blind spot. As Marcus Rediker points out in his groundbreaking new work, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea, what was the most effective escape route for the millions enslaved in the Deep South, far from the northern free states? The answer, literally and figuratively, lay in the tide.

A Discussion On The New Novel ‘Palaces Of The Crow’

May 21, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. Resistance Report Book Review, Chris Hedges, Mutual Aid, Wars and Militarism, World War II

“We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler about his new book, “Palaces of the Crow,” which centers around four teenagers from varying backgrounds who struggle to survive during World War II. The war, Nayler says, fundamentally reshaped the world geopolitically, technologically and socially in ways that have profoundly impacted the environment in which we live today. Critical lessons from that moment in time are being lost, with media and governments covering up the deep and long-lasting wounds inflicted upon tens of millions of people.

Can Worker Co-ops Deliver A Democratic Ecosocialism?

May 21, 2026 Ben Lockwood, Brief Ecology. Create! Book Review, Cooperatives, Democracy, Ecosocialism

In their recent book, Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy, Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams argue that democratic worker co-ops have a key role to play in an ecosocialist future. Published by Pluto Press, the book explores the theory, practice, and necessity of organizing economic production around societal and planetary care rather than profit. In doing so, Satgar and Williams provide a powerful and inspirational look into some of the tools we can use to exit the destructive logic of capitalism. Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy opens by characterizing what the authors call the “The Planetary Polycrisis”.

The Revolutionary Spirit Of Iran

April 30, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. Resistance Report Book Review, Chris Hedges, History, Iran, Revolution, Wars and Militarism

The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades Iranian culture. Rather than inciting Iranian people against their government, the US-Israeli war on Iran has united the population. Rather than promoting democracy in Iran and empowering the people, US economic punishment and aggression have accomplished the opposite and have made life more difficult for most Iranians. Like Cuba, Iran is being targeted because it will not relinquish its sovereignty.

War On Free Speech Expands To Detention, Sanctions Of Individuals

April 20, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Book Review, Detention, Financial Censorship, Free Speech, ICE

The plutocratic power structure in the United States is clamping down on our right to know and to dissent by illegally detaining individuals who speak out or shutting down their access to financial services. Clearing the FOG speaks with political analyst Ali Alizadeh about the unlawful detention of Iranian public policy PhD student at Virginia Tech, Yousof Azizi, who is frequently a guest on major media outlets. The second guest is Rainey Reitman of the Freedom of the Press foundation, who discusses her new book, "Transaction Denied: Big finance's power to punish speech."

I Support Cuba Because I Am On The Side Of Humanity And Life

April 6, 2026 Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Book Review, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Marxism

I met Gabriel Rockhill by chance, but not by accident. We were introduced by Helen Yaffe, a dear friend of Cuba, in January of this year during the International Congress held at the University of Havana to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference (1966). The current political climate added a unique dimension to the event: those present were standing up to the recent display of aggressivity against our country, which includes the possibility of armed aggression. That is why the meeting was not by accident. It was driven by conviction.

The Anti-Science Campaign Nakedly Exposed

March 13, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Anti-science, Book Review, Science, State Legislatures

An Associated Press investigation found that more than 420 “anti-science” bills were introduced in statehouses last year, more are expected in 2026. .The world’s anti-science campaign has never been bolder, intentionally clobbering the credibility of climate change and biomedical science with bold-faced lies, and it is winning. In the preface to their new book, Science Under Siege, Mann and Hotez explain in some gory detail their experience of 20 years of personal warfare against an invisible enemy that, at times, threatened their lives and intimidated their families, now fully exposed in the limelight of a very special extremely well-researched book that illuminates the five principal sources of antiscience.

Infrastructure, Finance, And The Sale Of The Future

March 10, 2026 Bart Hawkins Kreps, Resilience. Strategize! Book Review, Capitalism, Finance and the Economy, Transformation

Imagine yourself as a housing developer – an entrepreneur, a big-time player, a real deal-maker. Your people devise a plan to borrow money, buy land, design and win approval for a new subdivision, and sell 1,000 new housing units. Then, perhaps years before the houses are completed and decades before the initial mortgages are repaid, you sell your shares in the venture for a tidy profit. A neat trick, this, cashing in today on bills that others will pay long into the future. You have become wealthier, but have you been a “wealth creator”? For that matter, are you contributing to “economic growth”?

The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course

March 2, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Book Review, Fascism, Racism, Socialism

Is the United States a fascist state? There is an authoritarian in the White House, systemic racism is rampant, our cities and towns are being militarized, concentration camps are under construction, and our politicians are controlled by corporations. Clearing the FOG speaks with longtime activist and lawyer, Michael Smith, host of Law and Disorder and editor of the new book, "From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style", about where the United States is on the path to fascism, what we can expect and what we can do to change course. Smith explains what socialism is and why it is the solution for those who believe in democracy.

Fighting Autocracy And Corruption

February 26, 2026 Steve Early, New Politics. Strategize! Book Review, Corruption, Labor Movement, Rank and File, Unions

My first contact with labor reformers in New York City was nearly 50 years ago. Like many rank-and-file dissidents, before and since, these critics of union corruption were prophets without honor in their own local. Teamsters Local 282 was, at the time, one of the most mobbed-up affiliates of a national union then rightly notorious for its organized crime ties. Its members drove trucks full of cement or other building materials to local construction sites, while 282 leaders like Bobby Sasso extorted bribes to insure labor peace or allow non-union operations.

You Don’t Miss What Doesn’t Exist

February 2, 2026 Don Fitz, Popular Resistance. Educate! Anthropause, Biodiversity, Book Review, COVID-19, Degrowth, Transformation

“Anthropause” is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Cox’s Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do – it first focuses readers’ attention to the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff. It then details the destructiveness of overproduction. As the inside jacket describes, “In the spring of 2020, people worldwide found themselves confined to their homes due to pandemic lockdown orders.

China Changes Everything: A Book Review

December 22, 2025 Steve Lalla, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Book Review, China, Health Care, Socialism

A new book edited by Kyle Ferrana, China Changes Everything, bills itself as an anthology by “social justice activists, journalists, and commentators” and brings together chapters about the People’s Republic of China written by prominent left-wing analysts, including Arnold August, Roger Harris, Radhika Desai, Carlos Martinez, Gerald Horne, Lee Siu Hin, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, KJ Noh, Sara Flounders, and many more. The publication covers a comprehensive range of subjects in the ongoing “China debate” and includes chapters on such hot topics as China’s relation to Palestine and China’s foreign affairs policies, its banking and healthcare system, its transportation infrastructure and the rail and air infrastructure that China has helped to build in developing nations, its achievements in green technology and poverty alleviation, China’s military expenditures and aims, its role in the “space race,” its alleged genocide of the Uyghurs, and the status of Taiwan and Tibet, among others.

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