book review
‘Beyond the Wall’: A objective look of the former German Democratic Republic
John Tully — Katya Hoyer is no apologist for the East German regime, but she has written a more objective history of the former state than the German establishment would like.
Not a manifesto but part of a discussion: A review of Bhaskar Sunkara's 'The Socialist Manifesto'
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality.
By Bhaskar Sunkara.
New York: Basic Books, 2019.
276 pages, including index. Hardcover, $28.00.
Review by Paul Le Blanc
The democratic socialist cul-de-sac: A critical look at 'The Socialist Manifesto'
By Bhaskar Sunkara
Gee Whiz! Communism is sure gonna be keen!
Aaron Bastani
John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’, eighty years on
By John Steinbeck
Penguin, 1993 (first published 1937), $8.95 September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This year marks the 80th anniversary of Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. At less than 200 pages it carries enormous force as a mythic account of alienation under US capitalism.
Financial claims on the world economy
campaigning to become Mayor of Toronto, Canada, 1948. Ernest Tate, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: A Memoir – Volume 1, Canada 1955–1965 (London: Resistance Books, 2014) Ernest Tate, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: A Memoir – Volume 2, Britain 1965–1970 (London: Resistance Books, 2014) By Bryan D. Palmer
Ecology or catastrophe: the life of Murray Bookchin
New books shed light on Trotsky's struggle against Soviet bureaucracy
Leon Trotsky
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Leon Trotsky