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“Put simply, outside of a few progressive districts, secular-minded young activists in the party are unable to win voters’ trust.” DANIEL K. WILLIAMS in The New York Times
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017“The anti-Russian frenzy hit depths not seen since the McCarthy witch hunt.” An excerpt from HOW I LOST at Truthdig
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017Read here.
The Bookseller covers the winners of this year’s awards from the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, including ALEX NUNNS
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017Read the full story here.
“The stories of those who survived detention and torture and are now living undercover in Putin’s Russia.” MASHA GESSEN in The New Yorker
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017Read it here.
THE CANDIDATE wins the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing
Monday, June 26th, 2017Cogent, optimistic, well-written and thoroughly researched, this hugely topical book records with great intimacy and insight an historical moment whose lessons mustn’t be forgotten, while also exposing the persistent forces which continue to work against social change.
Read more here.
“We have to seize this moment.” ALEX NUNNS is interviewed at Morning Star
Monday, June 26th, 2017Read it here.
“If the Weather Underground was romanticised by progressives at the time who nonetheless abhorred its violent ways, a reading of Lerner’s book leaves no doubt that it shouldn’t have been.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is cited at The Independent
Monday, June 26th, 2017Read David Usborne’s article, on domestic terrorism in America, here.
“When a democratic government seeks to remove the ban on lying to you, be very skeptical indeed, because you’re in for a long, bumpy ride.” JOEL WHITNEY on the contemporary relevance of FINKS, at The Nation
Monday, June 26th, 2017Read it here.
“A Labour Party that actually challenges entrenched power and governs for the broad mass of the people will face significant resistance.” ALEX NUNNS on Labour leadership at Jacobin
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017Read the interview here.
“Conservatives are now terrified of having another election because they believe that Corbyn would win it.” ALEX NUNNS is interviewed at Counterfire
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017Read it here.
“Stopping the war in Syria is one thing. Supporting the refugees now is another.” SYRIA BURNING is cited in Morning Star
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017Read it here.
“Entertaining, albeit terrifying, reading.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at Socialist Worker
Tuesday, June 20th, 2017Read it at Socialist Worker.
JOHN OAKES discusses publishing and journalism at The New Indian Express
Monday, June 19th, 2017Read it here.
“The reluctant publisher.” JOHN OAKES is interviewed at Indian newspaper The Hindu
Monday, June 19th, 2017Read it here.
“The Clinton sense of entitlement knew no limits.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at The American Conservative
Friday, June 16th, 2017Read it here.
“An informative view of a time when writers and intellectuals were probably in the limelight more than they are now.” FINKS is reviewed at Penniless Press
Friday, June 16th, 2017Read it here.
JOE LAURIA speaks to Scott Horton at the Libertarian Institute on HOW I LOST
Friday, June 16th, 2017Listen here.
TERRY HEATON is in the Huffington Post discussing fake news and the religious right
Friday, June 16th, 2017Read it here.
“Two years ago today Jeremy Corbyn made it onto the Labour leadership ballot — with seconds to spare.” An excerpt from THE CANDIDATE at Jacobin
Thursday, June 15th, 2017Read it here.
“A rueful—but not entirely so—account of years spent in the Students for Democratic Society and its militant offspring, the Weather Underground.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed at Kirkus
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017Readers with a memory for the time will appreciate some of Lerner’s dish, which involves other now-well-known radicals. Those too young for it will find inspiration in his latter-day commitment to tiny acts in the face of Armageddon.
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“To be physically here and mentally out of range is a familiar experience of the cell phone age.” Radhika Subramaniam’s essay from ASSUMING BOYCOTT is excerpted at The Believer
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017Read it here.
“An enlightening and invigorating read.” THE CANDIDATE: JEREMY CORBYN’S IMPROBABLE PATH TO POWER reviewed at Ten Million Hardbacks
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017Read the full review here.
ALEX NUNNS interviewed on the BBC World Service on the shock UK general election results
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017Listen to the full interview here (after 9 minutes).
“The border is the war.” STUDIO is reviewed at 3:AM Magazine
Thursday, June 8th, 2017Studio, as its title suggests, is an exercise not so much in the remembrance of Chris Marker, but a remembrance, as viewed through the sole essay contributed by cineaste-critic Colin MacCabe to the volume. As much as Marker shunned publicity of any kind during his lifetime (1921-2012, remarking pointedly “My films are enough”), for Studio an array of selected photographs of his Paris workspace by Adam Bartos documents the rest.
Read it here.
“What Really Happened in June 1967?” An interview with NORMAN FINKELSTEIN at The Real News Network
Monday, June 5th, 2017Read it here.
“A clear picture of the 1964 Goldwater Girl comes across.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at Dandelion Salad
Monday, June 5th, 2017A clear picture of the 1964 Goldwater Girl comes across, one who has accumulated a lot, is out of touch with the American public, and one who is not disinclined to bend any and all rules if it is to her advantage.
Read it here.
PATRICK COCKBURN is interview at The Real News Network on military intervention in Syria
Monday, June 5th, 2017I know about one guy in Mosul and maybe this gives the flavor of what really happens if you’re on the ground. He had a tarpaulin over part of his house as a shade. It’s pretty hot in Mosul. But the US and the Iraqi Air Force had decided that any tarpaulin must be concealing an ISIS fighting position or supplies and consequently got bombed by a drone. He got hit in the leg and had dragged himself to a local clinic. They didn’t have any bandages and so forth. He dragged himself home again.
Read it here.
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN is interviewed at Mondoweiss on the history of the Six Day War
Monday, June 5th, 2017Read it here.
ALEX NUNNS appears in The Canary after catching an incident of media bias against Jeremy Corbyn
Monday, June 5th, 2017Tim Shipman is political editor of The Sunday Times. He has made his views on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn well known. And mostly, they fall within the parameters of simple political disagreement. But his latest intervention moves beyond that. In the tweet, Shipman calls Corbyn a “terrorist loving commie”, and claims he’s “never seen anyone less suited to high office.”
Full article here.
An excerpt from ISTANBUL, ISTANBUL by BURHAN SÖNMEZ appears at international literary journal Slow Words
Monday, June 5th, 2017Read it here.
