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An excerpt from ‘If He Hollers Let Him Go,’ by Chester Himes, 1945

James Murray

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posted by James Murray   “…but as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As ...

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Book Review: The Unknown World of the Mobile Home

Curtis Price

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“Crowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophouses”: A Review of “The Unknown World of the Mobile Home “by John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in ...

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“How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism” by Ronald W. Dworkin (Lexington Books, 2015)

Curtis Price

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Reviewed by Curtis Price “Early Marx also threatens the academy, being critical of the very professors who now stand guard over Marxian scholarship.” This unusual book (unusual because it’s written by a conservative physician and political ...

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The Secret Lives of Rikers Island Jail Guards

Jarrod Shanahan

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“Corrections should rehabilitate the inmates,” writes C. René West in Caught in the Struggle, “but who has the time. The officers are so busy trying to sift through all the confusion in the parking lots, locker ...

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The Revolutionary Moment

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within every mass movement—unions or workers’ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or ...

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