by Guillaume Tremblay-Boily Jacobin After participating in 1960s progressive movements, Jon Melrod took his activism to the factory floor, becoming…
Review
Y’all Means All—Recommended reading from WVU Press author Nicholas Stump
By Bookimist June 5th, 2022 This groundbreaking essay collection, edited by Z. Zane McNeill, a prolific scholar-activist from West Virginia,…
The American Organizer – A Review of Jon Melrod’s Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
Fighting Times provides a vivid group portrait of the men and women who joined with him in the day-to-day struggles…
Stories and Stories and Stories of Womanhood
Pandora is out of the box By Marieke Bivar Fifth Estate Magazine In this collection, women’s bodies are discussed as…
Impact of New Wave Science Fiction
a radical re-evaluation By Rich Dana (Ricardo Feral)Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022 In the last several years, Science Fiction,…
One organizer, two cities: Jon Melrod’s ‘Fighting Times,’ from Madison to Racine
By Jonah Raskin The Rag Blog April 7th, 2022 Jon Melrod recalls those heady days in his new memoir. The…
Jewish Noir II in Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly Edited by Kenneth Wishnia and Chantelle Aimée Osman. PM, $17.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-62963-822-5 The 23 entries…
Theorising China’s transition
By Simon Gilbert International Socialism A review of The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed…
Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes of Marx, Gender, and Feminism in College & Research Libraries
By Melissa A. Hubbard, University at Buffalo College & Research Libraries Journal May 2022 Activist and Marxist scholar Silvia Federici…
Che Guevara in Black and White
A review of Life of Che: An Impressionistic Biography by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, AlbertoBreccia, and Enrique Breccia (Fantagraphic Books) The…