Recovery: Peace prospects in the Biden era
(2020)
Author: Douglas Roche
Publisher: Khalid Yaqub
Reviewed by Ed Lehman
Douglas Roche’s latest book contains a lot of valuable information and could be an important stimulus to [...]
By Leslie Misson
Climate fiction (cli-fi) is now a widely recognized literary genre. It has proliferated so rapidly that it’s difficult to keep up. Common features of cli-fi include references to alternative histories, aliens, geoengineering, [...]
By Robert Griffiths and John Foster
The UK-EU trade agreement is a compromise between the interests of British state-monopoly capitalism on the one side and those of German and French monopoly capital – represented by their states and the EU – [...]
Thirty years ago, in June 1991, apartheid was legally abolished in South Africa. While it would be another three years until the country’s first democratic election – years that included violence like the Bisho massacre and the assassination of [...]
The February 1 announcement that Sudbury, Ontario’s Laurentian University had gone bankrupt made front page headlines and sent shock waves across the country. There’s good reason for this – universities are public institutions, and they are supposed [...]
Maoism: A Global History
2019
Author: Julia Lovell
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewed by Brian W. Major
Julia Lovell’s book is a detailed study of the history, impact, appeal and legacy of Mao Zedong and Maoism globally. [...]
PV Ontario Bureau
Among the series of crises that the coronavirus pandemic has caused and exposed in Ontario, one of the most dramatic is in housing. Homeless people have been exposed to the virus in overcrowded shelters and, as a result, [...]
By B Prasant, Kolkata
The farmers’ sit-in has now passed two months. In the rainy winter cold of northern India, 171 of the demonstrators have succumbed to the extreme weather, mostly the elderly and the ill. None of the central or state [...]
The Communist Party of Quebec (PCQ) is concerned about the alarming numbers of new cases of COVID-19 infection. With more than 2,500 cases daily for the past few days, there is a real danger of overloading our health care system to the point where [...]
By Alex C
The transportation of goods by sea has always been vital to the global economy. Raw materials are first transported to factories, then the finished products are directed to various markets. It is estimated that 90 percent of the [...]