Books
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Books: A Fifty-Year journey for truth and justice
Diana Johnstone’s fiercely courageous and independent reporting, historical analysis, and activism have stayed the course while managing to chalk up a veritable army of opponents: establishment Democrats, infantile 1960s New Leftists, would-be French student revolutionaries, identity politics adherents, influential U.S. and French intellectuals, Serbian-hating neoliberals promoting Responsibility to Protect (R2P) wars, NATO, and the U.S.… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Mid-July, 2020
19 July 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading matters Six new books … Greta Thunberg’s story; Fighting corporate food systems; Revolutionaries on climate; Food and revolution; A case for meat; Our carbon world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Pandemic Edition (July 2020)
6 July 2020 — Climate & Capitalism A special edition of Ecosocialist Bookshelf: six books we recommend for understanding the deadliest global health crisis of our time Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. This edition focuses on viruses and health care, on capitalism’s failure to protect human health, and radical alternatives. Continue reading
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Mission to explain Covid and its consequences
AS EDITOR of The Lancet, Richard Horton was one of the first to highlight the research coming out of China about the evolving Covid-19 pandemic and his frustration and anger at countries who ignored these early warnings has led to the publication of this book. Continue reading
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Free eBook: The Definitive Guide to Direct Action
30 June 2020 — Seven Stories Press The Moment Requires Full Spectrum Resistance Download free digital copies of Full Spectrum Resistance, Vols. 1 & 2 by Aric McBay And take 50% off the print editions For more writings against state repression, download our free collection Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out and check Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2020
1 June 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading in Lockdown Books we’re reading this month … The Life of V. Gordon Childe; The Tragedy of US Science; Four Billion Years of Life; Marx and Climate Crisis; Tell the Bosses We’re Coming; Essays on Red Rosa Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every Continue reading
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How Does the U.S. Rally Support for Wars That Kill Millions of Innocent People Worldwide?
The US’ wars have killed millions of innocent men, women and children around the world. Yet more often than not they have been based on weak evidence, questionable motives, and outright lies. Why, then, do large portions of the public staunchly support the US troops? Why are so many Americans satisfied with the U.S. bombings… Continue reading
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Book Review: Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America
How pigs became commodities and key elements of the interlocked social, economic and political institutions of US capitalism. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2020
25 April 2020– Climate & Capitalism Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link Continue reading
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USA: Capitalism & Racism + Covid-19 = Murder
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison are being offered $6 per hour to dig mass graves on Hart’s Island off the Bronx. That’s… Continue reading
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Work Sucks: Life After Work
In this book, authors Pfannebecker and Smith summarize the current anti-work movement and literature. In view of rapid displacement of blue and white collar workers by robots and computers, coupled with the offshoring of most manufacturing jobs, there are growing calls for an end to waged work altogether. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2020
21 March 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading, red and green Six new books to read while maintaining social distance. Yellow Earth; Socialist Practice; Friedrich Engels; Chicken History; Traveling Plants; Coal and Empire Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that seem Continue reading
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The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US
The French-Algerian writer Albert Camus’ great 1947 novel, The Plague, is a warning to us today, but a warning in disguise. When he died sixty years ago at the young age of forty-six, he had already written The Stranger, The Fall, and The Plague, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue reading
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Review: Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
First, Diana Johnstone’s memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2020
25 February 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Eight new books Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that Continue reading
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Book Review ‘Eyes In The Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare’ by Arthur Holland Michel
Arthur Holland Michel, author of ‘Eyes In The Sky’, is one of the co-founders of the Centre for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York State. The Centre for the Study of the Drone has done extraordinary work in monitoring the spread in the use of drones, including publication of ‘The… Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter February 2020
26 January 2020 — Housmans Books HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2020 NEWS 1. Our Power Is Real – Saturday 28th March 2. London Bookshop Crawl 2020 INSTORE EVENTS 3. ‘Journey Through Utopia’ with Matthew S. Adams, Rhiannon Firth, and Tim Waterman 4. Poetry Against Homelessness 5. ‘The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and the Nation in Twenty-First Century Continue reading
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Review: Tim Anderson, Axis of Resistance: Towards an Independent Middle East
Anderson’s Axis of Resistancetakes on the leftist position of ‘a plague on all your houses’. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution’ (for westerners), presents a bleak portrait of “three monsters … treading on Syria’s corpse’: (1) the Assad regime and its allies, (2) DAESH/ISIS and the other jihadists, and (3) the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 