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 [...]
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. [...]
Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA
Author: Udo Ulfkotte
Publisher: Progressive Press, 2019
Review by Tim Pelzer
It is well documented that the CIA uses the media to spread disinformation. After 1945, in what is known as [...]
Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada
2019
Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware
University of Regina Press
Review by Helen Kennedy
White supremacy and colonialism aim to erase the [...]
The North-West Is Our Mother
2019
Jean Teillet
Harper Collins
Review by Kimball Cariou
The development of nations often takes millennia, or at least centuries, a complicated process of forging a common language, culture, history and [...]
A Worker’s Friend
Peter Marcus
2019
Granville Island Publishing
“Poetry is a reflection of the society in which we live and its past and its political future,” writes Peter Marcus in the introduction to his book of poetry, A Worker’s [...]
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
(2013)
Author: James Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Review by Kimball Cariou
What economic system extends its reach across entire [...]
Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy
(2013)
Author: David Lethbridge
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Few figures in Canadian history remain as popular as Norman Bethune. This despite a plethora of books, films and [...]
A Socialist Defector: from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
Author: Victor Grossman
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2019
Thirty one years ago the Berlin Wall came down and the working class in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East [...]
North Korea Journal (2019)
Michael Palin
Many readers might know Michael Palin as part of the Monty Python comedy troupe. His comedic antics were hilarious, and his work has been shown around the world. In later years he also became a [...]