The HathiTrust Digital Library has made available a scan of the best English-language account of the 1968 revolt in France, Worker-Student Action Committees: France, May ’68, by two participants in the event, Fredy Perlman and Roger Gregoire. Perlman, founder of the journal and publishing cooperative Black & Red, was in Europe to teach a course […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Portugal: The Impossible Revolution? by Phil Mailer PM Press, 2012, 300 pages. PM Press (of Oakland, California) is set to re-publish Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?, Phil Mailer’s fascinating first-hand account of the Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975. The book was originally published in 1977 by Solidarity, a relatively large group of British co-thinkers of Cornelius Castoriadis. […]
David Black, author of Helen Macfarlane: a Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, has written a comment (“‘No Justice, No Peace’ and Blood and Flames on England’s Streets: 1981, 1985, and 2011)” on the recent urban unrest in Britain.
Criticism &c. recently came across a review by Paresh Chattopadhyay, author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience, of a 2001 World Bank report on trends in the global economy. While Chattopadhyay does not refer to Marx’s categories here (due to his audience, no doubt), the outline of globalization’s “three waves” he […]
The Marxists Internet Archive has made available a 1961 column by Raya Dunayavskaya (“Tito’s Turnabout“) on the U.S.S.R.’s Khruschev-era reconcilliation with Yugoslavia. This piece serves as a bracing antidote to the Marshal Tito nostalgia which one encounters from time to time, particularly with regards to what was called the system of “workers’ self-management.” One point […]
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