April 18, 2024Chapter 4 from Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (Verso 2005) By Iain Boal, T.J.…
December 20, 2023By A Radical Guide Once again the Howard Zinn Book Fair has created a day full of wonderful people, discussions,…
December 14, 2023In Shades of Resistance, unexceptional people take exceptional risks Joseph Matthews, Evangeline Riddiford Graham Public Seminar December 5, 2023 Image…
December 28, 2022By Peter Linebaugh Counterpunch December 16th, 2022 One evening in May of last year I was walking with some friends…- November 15, 2022By John L. Murphy Spectrum Culture Where today boutique hotels and burgeoning lofts rise, a modest intersection less than five…
- November 7, 2022by Meg Nola Foreword Jan/Feb 2022 Joseph Matthews’s clamorous, complex novel The Blast is set in San Francisco in 1916.…
- August 14, 2022About the book: San Francisco, 1916. The streets roiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrial barons,…
July 25, 2022John L Williams’ new book on the pan-African thinker is a marvel that offers a close, meticulous description of his…- July 21, 2022by Robert Knox Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022 a review ofThe Blast by Joseph Matthews. PM Press, 2022 The…
- May 30, 2022An excerpt from a new novel about the radical Left in 1916 San Francisco Public Seminar Excerpted from The Blast.…
- May 24, 2022Labor organizing and espionage in Joseph Matthews’s new novel, The Blast Public Seminar It’s an old joke: Lock two anarchists…
- April 12, 2022The early 20th century had much in common with our time. It was an epoch of great extremes of wealth…
