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Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time
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Mood Machine: the Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
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Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City
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Dangerous Juncture: An Interview with Clare Daly
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Until We Fall: A Long Distance Life on the Left
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Western Marxism: How it Was Born, How it Died, How it Can Be Reborn
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Philosophy as Class Struggle in Theory: Ideology, Dialectics, Culturalism & Socialism
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Vladimir Lenin, “The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism,” Collected Works, Vol. 19 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977), 23. 2 Ibid. 28.
Anti-imperialism, Independence and the Workers’ Republic: The Impact of History on Ireland Today. An Interview with Tommy McKearney
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'Shake Off Your Chains’: The Story Behind ‘Songs of Slavery and Emancipation’
EDITOR’S NOTE: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation is a collection of 31 newly discovered songs that don’t just lament slavery but call for resistance and revolt. Some were written by abolitionists, including free Black people and fugitive slaves, and some by people still enslaved. The songs date as far back as 1784 up through the Civil War.
Was Folk Music a Commie Plot?
Aaron Leonard, The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA—1939–1956 (London: Repeater Books, 2020), 323 pages, $16.95, paperback. To fully appreciate Aaron Leonard’s book, The Folk Singers and the Bureau, it is necessary to consider its broader historical and musical context. The years between 1939 and 1956 were, by any measure, of epochal importance.
Was Folk Music a Commie Plot?
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National Liberation in an International Context
Navigating the Zeitgeist By Helena Sheehan Monthly Review Press (2019) Navigating the Zeitgeist, is the first installment of Helena Sheehan’s two-part autobiography, covering the period between her birth in 1944 and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sheehan’s many books and essays include, Marxism and the Philosophy of Science, which made a vital contribution when it was published in 1985, remaining relevant, even urgent, to this day.
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