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Sensing Injustice
The remarkable life of a lawyer at the forefront of civil and human rights since the 1960sBy the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the...
Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living
Essays that explore new ways of living with technological changeEvery year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideasfrom the independent new left. This...
The Return of Nature
Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeA fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecologyTwenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism...
Tell the Bosses We're Coming
How labor union organizing can help leverage today's movements, and why workers need unions more than ever beforeLengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security… Never have...
Jazz and Justice
A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New...
A Socialist Defector
The rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the German Democratic Republic told in personal detail by activist and writer Victor GrossmanThe circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman,...
Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
An analysis of the mythologies that influence the American legal system“Mythologies,” writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, “are structures of words and images that portray people,...
Miseducating for the Global Economy
How the American education system became a "global economy" industryAll across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators – and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump – cry...
The Age of Monopoly Capital
The rich correspondence that preceded the publication of Monopoly Capital Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy were two of the leading Marxist economists of the twentieth century. Their seminal work, Monopoly...
Union Power
If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are...
Educational Justice
That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart’s...
The American War in Vietnam
On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial...
America's Addiction to Terrorism
In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the more pervasive is...
Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties
Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beginning in the early 19th-century, white settlers began...
In Walt We Trust
Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For...