Category Archives: Blog

Robert D. Taber & Charlton W. Yingling: “Free Communities of Color in the Revolutionary Caribbean”

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

“Our new book, Free Communities of Color in the Revolutionary Caribbean: Overturning, or Turning Back?, brings together emerging and established scholars to explore meanings of community and belonging for people of color in the late Age of Atlantic Revolutions, not just in Haiti or the British Atlantic, but also Caracas, Cartagena, the Dutch and Swedish Caribbean, and the European metropole.”

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“The Photos that Captured the First Day of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by

“August 21, 1968 at the Czech Center New York features 20 images of dynamic photo-reportage capturing the first day of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia.”

Posted in Blog, defeat, fine arts, revolt, tyranny

Rebecca Solnit: “All the Rage: What a literature that embraces female anger can achieve”

Posted on September 29, 2018 by

“Instead of a theory of male anger, we have a growing literature in essays and now books about female anger, a phenomenon in transition.” Rebecca Solnit on three new books about women’s anger.

Posted in Blog, fraternity, gender, justice, power, revolt, tyranny

Carlos Lozada: “Why women’s rage is healthy, rational and necessary for America”

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

GOOD AND MAD: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister. Simon & Schuster. 284 pp. (2018)

RAGE BECOMES HER: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly. Atria Books. 392 pp. (2018)

Posted in Blog, fraternity, power, resistance, revolution, rights

“How the Performance of a French Opera about a Neapolitan Revolt Sparked a Belgian Revolution”

Posted on September 13, 2018 by

The plot of the fiery libretto of the grand opera The Mute Girl of Portici by the French composer Daniel Auber revolves around the Neapolitan revolts of 1647.

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Jackson Lears: “Aquarius Rising”

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

“Certain years acquire an almost numinous quality in collective memory—1789, 1861, 1914. One of the more recent additions to the list is 1968. Its fiftieth anniversary has brought a flood of attempts to recapture it—local, national, and transnational histories, anthologies, memoirs, even performance art and musical theater.”  Review essay on several books.

Posted in anarchism, autonomy, Blog, crisis, disobedience, resistance, revolt, revolution, the Left, tragic politics

“The Failure of Egypt’s Revolution”

Posted on September 1, 2018 by

Steve Negus reviews Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East by David D. Kirkpatrick (2018)

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“Love and revolution” (2018): A film by Yannis Youlountas

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

A documentary film-testimony of struggles for autonomy in Greece, letting those who are directly engaged in these struggles speak for themselves.

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“Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics” by Stephen Greenblatt (2018)

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

“We learn not simply what Trump tells us about Shakespeare but what Shakespeare tells us about Trump. Illuminating scene after scene, Greenblatt is especially fine on the mechanisms of tyranny.”

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Wayne Price: “Some Lessons from Revolutionary History”

Posted on July 26, 2018 by

“A review of Loren Goldner’s Revolution, Defeat, and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia (2017), a book by a libertarian Marxist sympathetic to anarchism who analyses four revolutions in the 20th century and discusses their lessons.”

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