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Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection

Review by Marcelo Badarรณ Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second ...

An excerpt from โ€˜If He Hollers Let Him Go,โ€™ by Chester Himes, 1945

James Murray

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posted by James Murray   โ€œโ€ฆbut 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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โ€œCrowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophousesโ€: A Review of โ€œThe Unknown World of the Mobile Home โ€œby John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in ...

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โ€œHow Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalismโ€ by Ronald W. Dworkin (Lexington Books, 2015)

Curtis Price

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Reviewed by Curtis Price โ€œEarly 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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โ€œCorrections should rehabilitate the inmates,โ€ writes C. Renรฉ West in Caught in the Struggle, โ€œbut 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 movementโ€”unions or workersโ€™ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or ...

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