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JUST RELEASED! New edition of Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George

JUST RELEASED! New edition of Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George

February 20, 2024

In early 1917, as Britain was bogged down in a war it feared would never end, Alice Wheeldon, her two daughters, and her son were brought to trial and imprisoned for plotting the assassination of Prime Minister Lloyd George, who they believed had betrayed the suffrage movement. In this highly evocative and haunting play, British historian and feminist Sheila Rowbotham illuminates the lives and struggles of those who opposed the war…

Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century reviewed in Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century reviewed in Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

February 20, 2024

Consistent with his characteristic jargon-free, readable style, Robert W. McChesney’s new collection, Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-first Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy, is a deep yet accessible primer for his decades of work on journalism, politics, and political economy. The volume showcases over a decade of McChesney’s work and provides overviews and additions to some of his most important contributions during the period, including The Death and Life of American Journalism, Digital Disconnect, and Dollarocracy.

Grace Lee Boggs, 1915 – 2015

Grace Lee Boggs, 1915 – 2015

February 20, 2024

Celebrating the life of the activist and author, who died on the morning of October 5 The following essay by Grace Lee Boggs, which originally appeared in Monthly Review magazine,… READ MORE

Wall Street’s Think Tank reviewed in Counterpunch (again!)

Wall Street’s Think Tank reviewed in Counterpunch (again!)

February 20, 2024

Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to shape the outlines of much of recent history.

Peter Custers, 1949 – 2015

Peter Custers, 1949 – 2015

February 20, 2024

Monthly Review author Peter Custers died at his home in Leiden, the Netherlands on Tuesday, September 3rd, of a heart attack. See obituary in the Bangladeshi newspaper, The Daily Star… READ MORE

Your Time is Done Now reviewed in Repeating Islands

Your Time is Done Now reviewed in Repeating Islands

February 20, 2024

Polly Pattullo’s very important piece entitled Your Time is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814), is an edited collection of original primary source documents with contextual commentary detailing the account of what has been known as Dominica’s Second Maroon War in 1813 and 1814. Pattullo, a British writer and creator of her own publishing company entitled Papillote Press, uses the actual court documents of the Maroon (runaway slave) trials as well as correspondences between the British colonial government officials to disclose to public the eventful conflict between the Maroons and the colonial government of Dominica in the second decade of the nineteenth century.

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