#46 - March 2008
Translated by Eric Canepa
Wann seid ihr noch Linkspartei
Für die Arbeitsleute,
Tut was gegen Dienerei
Gegen die Beamtenmeute?
(Barbara Thalheim, Der alte Sozi, 2007)
Jetzt weiß ich...
No scheme of the Indian government has evoked as much pan-national controversy in recent years as the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for industry units aimed at exports. This has resulted in the displacement of poor farm...
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
A specter is haunting this planet — the specter of biological...
Given the rise of the mantra of globalization and more flexible and competitive labor markets that have so dominated contemporary discourse in the West, advocates of social justice desperately need carefully formulated and rigorous...
Translated by Eric Canepa
Part I: Movement, Organization, and Left Intervention
Large mobilizations carried out by broad alliances always provide an opportunity to raise questions on the...
I
In 1984 I was invited to give a talk at Indiana University–Pennsylvania shortly after I lost my teaching job at a branch of the University of Wisconsin system. I entitled my talk “Toward a Corporate Service...
Book Reviews
Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, eds. Toward a New Socialism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007).
If 1900-1910 marked the apex of socialist optimism, 1990-2000 marked its nadir (and, of course, the...
Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006).
When the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unleashed a great strike wave right after...
Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, & Slavoj Žižek, eds. Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007).
In To The Finland Station (1940),...
Stan Goff, War and Sex (Lulu Press [www.lulu.com], 2005).
The US military is the embodiment of patriarchy. It is an institution built on exclusively...
Gideon Polya, Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950 (Melbourne, Australia: gpolya@optusnet.com.au, 2007).
In Body Count,...
Robert Roth, Health Proxy (Stamford, Conn.: Yuganta Press, 2007).
The style is the man. That old adage is here true in its deepest sense – style as the discipline through which a fascinating individual,...
H. Bruce Franklin, The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007)
In this remarkable book, H. Bruce Franklin explores the fascinating history of Atlantic...
Walter A. Davis, Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theater (London: Pluto Press, 2007).
This book is the culmination of a trilogy that includes Deracination (reviewed in S&...
Marc Falkoff, ed, Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak (Ames: University of Iowa Press, 2007).
In this astonishing and unique testament, clamoring voices lift their anguish into art. Despite the...
Joel Shatzky, Intelligent Design: A Fable (Cortland: N and S Publishers, 2006).
Science fiction writers have often produced a snapshot of the future to give us a critique of the present, though few have...
Alexander Saxton, Religion and the Human Prospect (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2007).
In Religion and the Human Prospect, historian Alexander Saxton asks the most vital question facing...
Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2007).
A radical consciousness, which includes a working knowledge how...
Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer (New York: The New Press, 2006).
Helen Caldicott, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992...
Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007).
This is an important book. In a nutshell, what Andrew Kliman shows is that Marx’s...
Henry Heller, The Cold War and the New Imperialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006).
In this book, historian Henry Heller seeks to offer a comprehensive review of the major trends in world history...
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (Petrolia, CA and Oakland, CA: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2007)
Reading this book is like eating a plate of savory...
Paul Zarembka, ed., The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006).
Scholars from Canada, the UK, and the US, in a four-part collection of essays, pose serious questions of economics and...
Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas, eds., Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy” (Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield, 2007).
Succinctly stated, the...
Michael González Cruz, Nacionalismo revolucionario puertorriqueño: la lucha armada, intelectuales, y prisioneros políticos y de guerra [Puerto Rican Revolutionary Nationalism: Armed Struggle, Intellectuals, and...
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007).
The title, Inventing Human Rights: A History, suggests the paradoxes that Lynn Hunt promises to explore. An eminent...
Michael Hardt Presents Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (New York: Verso Books, 2007).
This slim volume is the first in Verso’s “Revolution Series” in which a contemporary philosopher introduces a...
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Sriram Ananthanarayanan is an activist and researcher on issues of labor and gender. He worked in India as a human rights campaigner during the 2002 pogrom conducted by right-wing Hindu groups in Gujarat. After graduate...