Book Review

Proles: A Story Of Post-Sixties’ Salting Among The ‘Salt Of The Earth’

October 1, 2026 Steve Early, Counter Punch. Strategize! Book Review, Labor Movement, Salting, Youth

In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working-class radicalization, no labor film was more influential than Salt of the Earth. This pioneering docudrama was made two decades earlier by a producer, writer, director, and several actors who were unemployable in Hollywood, due to McCarthy era-blacklisting. This left-wing creative team recruited a cast of workers and their families from the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) to play themselves in a fictional account of a long strike at the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico.

Attacks On Communist Ideology Using Marxist Terminology

August 31, 2026 Leo Schwarz, The Left Chapter. Educate! Book Review, Capitalism, CIA, Marxism

Shortly before his death, Herbert Marcuse wrote an essay on Rudolf Bahro’s book The Alternative in Eastern Europe. In the essay, Marcuse hailed Bahro’s “critique of actually existing socialism” as “the most important contribution to Marxist theory and practice in decades.” This statement was part of a coordinated campaign for the book and for Bahro that swept through the major media outlets of the Western world between 1977 and 1979–80. As we now know (or can know), a striking number of the key figures in this campaign maintained connections in the postwar decades to the Central Intelligence Agency or to various institutions and organizations that were either controlled, funded, or considered “friendly” by the CIA or the U.S. State Department.

US Citizens Should Be Paid $27,522 In Compensation For Illegal Wars

August 31, 2026 Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. Create! Book Review, Peace Dividend, Taxes, Wars and Militarism

The Trump administration’s illegal bombing of Iran and murder of school-children has underscored for millions of people the perils of the U.S. warfare state. At the end of the Cold War, with the Soviet “threat” gone, the American public had been promised a “peace dividend” by which public money would be spent on education, health care, parks and other public goods. Unfortunately, since that time, new national security “threats” were invented and the military budget was increased substantially for 25 out of the next 34 years. John Rachel[1] argues in his book America’s Hijacked Peace Dividend: Long Overdue and Immediately Payable that the exorbitant amount of money spent on “national defense” was effectively stolen from American taxpayers in what is among the “biggest scams in world history.”

Excerpt: How To Close A Camp

August 10, 2026 John Washington, Portside. Strategize! Book Review, Community Defense, Detention Centers, Immigrant Rights

By the late 1980s, thanks to over a decade of laws criminalizing immigrants and expanding the camp system, prison and immigration detention industries were operating by their own economic logics. Even in the face of recessions, the prison industry kept growing. Immigration detention was seen by the Reagan administration as “recession-proof.” For private corporations like CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), founded in 1983, immigration detention was a financial lifeline. Federal contracts insulated companies from state budget crises and guaranteed steady revenue streams.

Can Worker Control Guide The World Past A Neoliberal Crisis?

August 9, 2026 Rebecca Harvey, Co-operative News. Strategize! Book Review, Cooperatives, Neoliberalism, Transformation, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers’ self-management is on the rise, as a response to recurring neoliberal crises: this is the central argument in a new book co-authored by Professor Dario Azzellini, senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen with previous roles at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico) and Cornell University (USA). In particular, Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (WREs), a form of workers’ self-organisation whereby workers restart troubled, bankrupt, or shuttered companies as co-operatives or other forms of democratic workplace.

The Weather Underground As Seen Through A Child’s Eyes

July 26, 2026 Michael Steven Smith, The Indypendent. Educate! Book Review, FBI, State Repression, Weather Underground

Zayd Ayers Dohrn, the son of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, leaders of the Weather Underground, has published to much acclaim a new book about his parents, their organization which came out of Students for a Democratic Society, and what he endured as a child growing up on the run from the FBI. Leon Trotsky observed about reformist Norman Thomas that “he was a socialist as a result of a misunderstanding“. The same could be said about the Weather Underground , that they were “revolutionists” as a result of a misunderstanding.

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.

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