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Blood on the Forge (Voices of Resistance)

2 reviews
William Attaway

Monthly Review Press, 1987

Among the Very Best "Unknown" American Novels
William Attaway's BLOOD ON THE FORGE powerfully depicts both the Black migration to the industrial north after WWI and the startling hell-like environment of the vast iron & steel works of the era. No other writer--novelist, sociologist, historian--has ever captured so well the compelling, visceral experience of the humans working these sacrificial jobs. As Attaway walks us through the vast ...

Bush Versus ChÃ¡vez: Washingtons War on Venezuela

2 reviews
Eva Golinger

Monthly Review Press, 2007

Courageous detective work
The author, a lawyer and a dual citizen of Venezuela and the United States, has literally risked her life to publish this book. She has received numerous death threats and plenty of insults. A sequel to her previous bestseller, "The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela", it examines secret US documents that reveal how hard the Bush administration is trying to overthrow the ...

Days and Nights of Love and War

3 reviews
Eduardo Galeano

Monthly Review Press, 1982

A gorgeous book --- heart-wrenching and inspiring.
This book is for anyone immersed in the human condition, waging a war internally and silently stuggling externally. Galeano's collection of thoughts and essays and stories stirs the emotions of the reader and forces them to consider the entirety of the Latin American canon of literature as a formidable one. It encompasses genres such as autobiography, biography, testimony, prose, and short ...

Man's worldly goods: The story of the wealth of nations

5 reviews
Leo Huberman

Monthly Review Press, 1952

Magnificent in scope and understanding of economics!
Leo Huberman's masterpiece is a fantastic work, unfortunately out of print abroad but published in India and available in select bookstores. In an age where belief in the Left is scorned and the free market rules supreme, this book is as relevant as ever, reminding one of the perils that can arise when a market is too free. Huberman explains economics in its historical background and shows ...

Immigrants: Materialism and Nature

5 reviews
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2000

Marx as ecologist
In "Marx's Ecology," John Bellamy Foster defies conventional green thinking by raising the banner of materialism rather than spirituality in the fight to save the planet and humanity from ecological ruin. In addition to restoring materialism to its proper place, Foster also shows that ecological questions were central not only to Marx, but other Marxists such as Bebel and Bukharin. By ...

China Shakes the World

4 reviews
Jack Belden

Monthly Review Press, 1970

A book that explains why Mao (at the beginning) was good....
This is a really powerful book..... It is an account of China under the government of the Nationalist Chinese written by an American journalist who, in the end, fell under the spell of Mao's PLA not for ideological reasons-- but because of a personal affinity for the Chinese people.... who were suffering.... I was advised to read this book in college by a professor who claimed that "if you ...

Discourse on Colonialism

8 reviews
Aimé Césaire, Joan Pinkham, ...

Monthly Review Press, 2000

good perception
I read Cesaire's 'discours sur le colonialisme' in one afternoon at a coffe place and it was captivating in how intellectually he wrote, with tinges of attitude in the words. A lot of the things he wrote about I already knew from studying a lot about Africa before and what ethnocentricism vs. ethno relativism means when applying yourself and perceptions of other cultures. This book is as ...

The Scalpel and the Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune

4 reviews
Ted Allan, Sydney Gordon

Monthly Review Press, 1974

Norman Bethune - A Life of Service, Compassion & Excitement
This is a book that should be on the essential reading list for those planning a career in medicine (surgery). It is truly inspiring, and it provides an interesting history of the early years of thoracic surgery, transfusion medicine, and humanitarian committment. I recommend those who have the opportunity to visit the Bethune Peace Hospital in China, about a two hour drive from Beijing. The ...

Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean

4 reviews
Polly Pattullo

Monthly Review Press, 1996

Paradaise might be a victim of its own success
- Everyone's tropical paradaise might be a victim of its own success. This book reviews the tourism industry and explores how to bring greater benefits to the region. Excellent! Ron Mader / El Planeta Platica

Capital Crimes

2 reviews
George Winslow

Monthly Review Press, 1999

Solid, fascinating, well-written analysis of U.S. Crime
This is one of the best books on American crime that I have ever read. It is excellent because it illustrates the connections between street crime, drugs, U.S. foreign policy and --above all -- corporate greed and amorality. From the jungles of Burma to Miami, from the woods of Oregon to the S and L scandal, this book is sweeping in its analysis, and highly accessible. Clearly written. ...

The Empire Reloaded: Socialist Register 2005 (Socialist Register)

2 reviews
Leo Panitch, Colin Leys

Monthly Review Press, 2004

A powerful statement
"The Empire Reloaded: Socialist Register 2005" by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (editors) brilliantly explores themes pertaining to finance, culture and the impact of U.S. imperialism around the world. The penetrating analyses offered by the sixteen outstanding writers in this collection makes a powerful statement about the Socialist movement's continued relevance in our increasingly fractured ...

Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky

2 reviews

Monthly Review Press, 2007

A good look inside Lebanon
This is a valuable and timely book, in two parts. The first part contains lectures given in Lebanon by Noam Chomsky in May 2006, and essays and interviews from that time. Contributors include a number of respected academics, journalists and community workers from Lebanon and the United States. The second part consists of essays and other materials discussing Israel's incursion into Lebanon in ...

James Connolly: Selected Writings

2 reviews

Monthly Review Press, 1976

A must for any student of modern Irish History.
I borrowed this book from a friend and had to obtain a copy for my own personal library. The introduction is so moving that anyone interested in modern Irish History will not put it down. Connolly's viewpoints on Socialism, Nationalism, and the Catholic Church lifted an enormous cloud of confusion I have had since my early schooldays in Belfast.

The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906 - 1960

2 reviews
W. E. B. DuBois

Monthly Review Press, 2002

Required Reading
Thankfully this book has been reprinted, along with a new 2001 introduction by Herbert Aptheker (who puts in a gentle "slam" of David Levering Lewis's two Pulitzer Prize winning biographies for good measure). The picture of Du Bois on the new cover is another one of those "I am God and You are not worthy" type of pictures. I've gone and made it one of my screen savers. Du Bois's prescient and ...

Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 (Socialist Register)

2 reviews
Leo Panitch, Colin Leys

Monthly Review Press, 2006

Envisioning real environmental and social justice
"Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007" by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (Editors) delivers a high-quality anthology about the contemporary environmental crisis. The seventeen articles are written by leading thinkers associated with the socialist movement. Collectively, the articles make it clear that capitalism's perpetual growth imperative cannot help but push the world towards ...

Dispersed City of the Plains

2 reviews
Harris Stone, Joan Stone, ...

Monthly Review Press, 1998

Poignant, provocative thoughts on the Great Plains
This is a challenging, original analysis of the meaning of the built environment of the Great Plains. The author begins much the way that Walter Prescott Webb did in his pioneering work on the same subject, by analyzing the building blocks that organize space and the economy of the region, in this instance grain elevators, barbed wire, and windmills. He then moves through types of housing, ...

El Pueblo: The Gallegos Family's American Journey, 1503-1980

2 reviews
Bruce Johansen, Roberto Maestas

Monthly Review Press, 1983

Its a woderful book on my fathers family, its great.
IT WAS NICE TO SEE HOW MY FAMILY CAME IN TO THE STATES. JUST KNOWING HOW THEY LIVED AND WHAT THEY DID, HOW THEY WERE TREATED AMOUNG OTHERS. I MEET MR.JOHANSEN AND MR.MAESTAS AFTER THEY WROTE THIS VERY FINE BOOK.THE ONLY WAY I READ IT WAS A FAMILY MEMBER LET ME READ IT. IF YOU WANT TO READ A REAL LIFE TRUE STORY AND HOW IT WAS.THIS IS THE ONE, YES IT'S OUT OF PRINT BUT IF YOU COME ACROSS THIS ...

Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy

2 reviews
Laurence H. Shoup, William Minter

Monthly Review Press, 1977

crucial documentation of the American Empire
Shoup & Minter's devastating research on the planning behind the U.S. Empire is finally back in print 27 years after its 1977 publication by Monthly Review Press! The CFR, the Council on Foreign Relations, was formed by the international wing of U.S. capital after the League of Nations fell apart and inter-imperialist collaboration proved ineffective, leading to WWII. The farsighted few took ...

Ecology Against Capitalism

2 reviews
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2002

A Positive Alternative to Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster's "Ecology Against Capitalism" is a collection of essays that addresses some of the various aspects of capitalism's crisis of accumulation and the environment. Importantly, the author compares and contrasts the failures of the ecological economics model with the more promising ecosocialist paradigm, arguing that the latter is humanity's best chance to create a stable, healthy ...

How Capitalism Works: An Introductory Marxist Analysis (Modern reader)

2 reviews
Pierre Jalee

Monthly Review Press, 1977

Lucid Introduction to Capitalism and Marxian Economics
Pierre Jalee has written a brilliant pamphlet which is a resource tool for all who are concerned by the blind faith in free markets that is prevalent the world over. Jalee gets to the core of the capitalist system and free markets, and also deals with the exploitation of the third world by imperialist powers. This book enables the user to gain a thorough understanding of basic capitalist and ...

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