Dashiell Hammett, the key writer in the twentieth-century detective novel both in print and in screen adaptations of his work, had it…

Tariq Ali’s book, The Forty Years War, is an event, within the larger event of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of anAmerican City. By Steve Early. Foreword by Bernie Sanders. Boston: Beacon Press,…

Oliver Stone’s film, with its underplayed, historically precise script and careful acting, makes its points through the adventures of two ostensibly ordinary…

Rebelliously democratic union locals and a handful of internationals offer an alternative to the slow death of American unionism

An old question: is there a vital “workerism,” self-guided and instinctively radical, apart from socialist, communist or other left-wing political groups and can it make great reforms, even hold power in a workplace or city or national state?

Reviews of “An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy” and “New Forms of Worker Organization, The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism”

A Freedom Budget for All Americans. By Paul LeBlanc and Michael D. Yates. New York: Monthly Review Press, 245pp, $19.95 paperback This remarkable…

This massive volume, the labour of a near-lifetime, is certainly the best workplace study of labour in North America published in a…

A crowd of forty to sixty thousand, according to different estimates, circled the Wisconsin Capitol on the windy Saturday afternoon of March…