by CHRIS HEDGES Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.
Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
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Telling Tales of Death: Review of recently published books by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Richard Wright
By BRONSON TWEETY The story of Richard Wright’s 1944 character could well be incorporated in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s collection of short narratives Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? an exposé of America’s continuing legacy of murderous brutality towards Black people.
My Friend Michael Ratner
[The following is the July 27, 2021 presentation by Michael Steven Smith at a book party in New York City’s Lower East Side sponsored by the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to celebrate the publication of Michael Ratner‘s memoir, “Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer. Smith is a lifelong socialist … Continue reading My Friend Michael Ratner
How Revolutionaries Use Elections
By LAZARO MONTEVERDE Calls by social democrats to elect "progressive" Democrats exemplify what Engels called "parliamentary cretinism." Marx, Engels and Lenin devised a different tactic for revolutionaries.
Dreams Deferred: Book Review of “Red International and Black Caribbean”
By MARTY GOODMAN A review of "Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939," by Margaret Stevens