Our contemporary moment marked the collapse of global capital, ecological crises, war and U.S. occupations, and intensified racial inequality challenges all of us to speak truth to power and to deepen our politics of solidarity with all who experience oppression.

This is an excellent graphic novel about the life and times of Bertrand Russell and his search for the foundations of mathematics. Believe it or not, this is a really good read and not a dry and esoteric exercise in the history of mathematics. Even activist and writer Howard Zinn calls it “extraordinary.”

Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer. He also taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology, is a frequent speaker, a regular media guest, and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle.

The subtitle to this text carries an interesting choice of active verb, “confronts”. It signifies “coming face to face in hostility or defiance.” That alone brings to question the U.S. perspective, generally expressed in most U.S. media that U.S. intentions are generally positive or at best benign.

I don’t often agree with the editorials in Murdoch’s flagship Australian tabloid, The Daily Telegraph. But I have to agree with the editorial in the issue of September 12.

The conventional wisdom in the North Atlantic community nowadays is that the Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR was a disaster for an Africa that was squeezed by both sides. Actually, as this informative memoir cum history suggests, the reality was that – for example in apartheid South Africa – Washington was supportive of the white minority regime, while Moscow backed those fighting this illegal government.

Historically, straight Marxists’ attitudes toward LGBT comrades and movements have ranged from the virulently homophobic (condemning homosexuality as a “bourgeois deviation”) to tolerance (Lenin decriminalized homosexual acts in the USSR, although Stalin later re-imposed Czarist-era repression), to wholehearted support.

As Robbie Lieberman and Clarence Lang, editors of the valuable new collection of essays Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Struggle, note, two pitfalls particularly afflict scholarship on post World War II struggles for African American freedom and equality.

Kite flying activities go well beyond the physical phenomenon of wind blown materials flying tethered to their earth bound launchers. It is an activity including local knowledge of winds and landscapes, knowledge of how to physically shape the kite in order to have it fly.

This remarkable book sets 128 questions, ranging from "What were the main features of Cuban life during Spanish colonial rule?" to "How extensive is Cuba's cultural projection – music, art, film, literature – on the global stage?"

The old craft union oriented conservative labor history taught in the first half of the 20th century was essentially narrow political history of trade unions separate from social struggles and the larger political context. Philip S. Foner and others pioneered in the 1930s and 1940s the development of an anti-capitalist history of American labor.

“When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go: downtown.” So warbled the British singer, Petula Clark in the 1960s. However, today if solitude is your constant companion, I would suggest that you purchase a copy of this riveting book and read it on the bus and in airports.

The Protest Singer is a biography of Pete Seeger unlike most any other. Reading more as a recorded conversation than a biographical portrayal, Wilkinson based most of his little book on a series of visits to the Beacon NY home of his subject.

U Tin U, the National League for Democracy (NLD) Deputy Leader, once said that “Burma is a prison within a prison.” His words highlight the tragic political, social and economic circumstances that Burma is faced with today, because of the military junta.

This is a book the Halliburton/KBR can live with. It airs out their dirty laundry: the bribes, kickbacks, the inefficient work, the near slave labor conditions of its subcontracted employees, the deaths from insurgent attacks and electrocution, massive overcharging on its invoices, poor record-keeping, and other serious allegations.

If a Romare Bearden painting, a Pablo Neruda poem and a Billie Holiday blues were by means of an arcane alchemy combined to form some rare and breathtaking thing, it might be called Wandering Star, a stunning novel by the 2008 Noble Prize-winning French author J. M.G. Le Clezio.

Yet the fact is that Miss Childress, maintaining a light and charming tone, and the greatest readability, does move the reader – to tears and to laughter – but mostly to anger, the kind of anger which is the courage to change and fight against the ugliness surrounding us.

Interviewed here are Robbie Lieberman and Clarence Lang who are co-editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement (Palgrave Macmillan).

Dreaming Up America tends toward an oceanic view of its subject as the collective unconscious into which all things flow, and then combine, to give the American dream its special salty flavor.

The book is based on an absurd premise, not that this is unusual in science-fiction. The world as we know it, apparently what used to be North America, consists of the Capitol (filled with disgusting, rich, pampered elites) and the Districts (whose folks do the work that needs doing).