Essential Left Books and Articles

Others:

And a few films:

Gabe Levine-Drizin – Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)

Link to a review by Gabe Levine-Drizin of Jeff Schuhrke‘s book Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA:

“Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)”

Vijay Prashad – What Do You Fear the Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done?

Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:

“What Do You Fear the Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done?”

 

Bonus link: “The 1619 Project Revisited: A Retrospective Evaluation in Light of Trump’s Assault on Democracy” and “Understanding APEC: The Making of Global Value Chains”

Iker Suarez – The Migrant Genocide

Link to an article by Iker Suarez:

“The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle”

Bonus link: “The Recent Upsurge in Military Expenditure” and “A Class-based Catastrophe: US Suicide Rate Jumps 37 Percent in a Quarter-Century” and “Analysis Finds Low-Income Older Adults Die Nine Years Earlier than Wealthier Peers” and “Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?” and “Effects of International Sanctions on Age-specific Mortality: A Cross-national Panel Data Analysis” and “Interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: ‘In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen” and “The Darién Gap Straddling Panama and Colombia is a Mass Migrant Graveyard that Exemplifies Injustice of Today’s Global Economy” and “Anti-ICE, Anti-Imperialism. A Primer on the Role of ICE and How to Fight It” and “Fortress Europe Claims 70 More Migrant Lives in Mass Drowning in the Mediterranean”