April 1, 2011
On March 25, 1911, a fire spread through the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The mostly immigrant workers, young… READ MORE
October 1, 2010
David Bacon (http://dbacon.igc.org) is a California writer, documentary photographer, and host of a weekly radio (KPFA-FM) program on labor, migration, and globalization. He was a union organizer among immigrant workers… READ MORE
January 1, 2010
James McEnteer ([email protected]) is the author of Shooting the Truth: the Rise of American Political Documentaries (Praeger). His book about the LAPD, Acting Like It Matters, needs a caring publisher…. READ MORE
December 1, 2009
Civil rights lawyer Jeffrey Haas, a founder, in 1969, of Chicago’s People’s Law Office, has written one of the top books of the year: The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How… READ MORE
November 1, 2009
Stephen F. Eisenman is professor of art history at Northwestern University and the editor and principle author of Nineteenth Century Art (New York: Thames & Hudson). Throughout 2008–09, Eisenman worked… READ MORE
September 1, 2009
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 324 pages, $17.95, paper. David Bacon (dbacon.igc.org) is a California writer and documentary photographer. He was… READ MORE
June 1, 2009
Hannah Holleman is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the… READ MORE
June 1, 2009
David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Boston: Beacon Press, 2008), 261 pages, $25.95, hardcover. Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. His many… READ MORE
April 1, 2009
It is now universally recognized that the U.S. economy is experiencing a deep downturn unlike anything seen since the 1930s. Hence, the question continually arises: How close is this to… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
Bill Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and recently author of Fugitive Days (Beacon, 2008). Bernardine Dohrn is director… READ MORE