Category Archives: Lit Review

This essay interprets Thomas More’s Utopia, not chiefly through its intended audience, an elite, international circle of humanists and jurists, but through its intentionally excluded audience: the lower classes of Europe. Five centuries of scholarship on the critique of private property in his Utopia have generally overlooked More’s opposition to the largest popular uprising ofContinue reading “Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025”

In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the tactical and ideological parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the United States. — Read on proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/third-red-scare-same-as-the-first/

Everywhere you go looking for comrades and you usually find snakes instead.

Before I read this book, I would have thought that psychological warfare was basically strong propaganda. No longer. This was the idea promoted by early US academic researchers into mass communication. Much of their work was funded by and carried out for the US military. The military had its own definition of psychological warfare. AContinue reading “Science of Coercion, reviewed by Brian Martin”

Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League by Marx and Engels — Read on http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm

Strong people need protectors too.

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it’s wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it’s wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us,Continue reading “Malcolm’s Message to the Grassroots”

A key feature of the Iraq war was the prominence of international legal argument. This article argues that the motif of the ‘illegal war’ was crucial in mobilisations against the war. It traces the reasons for the prominence of this ‘illegal war’ motif and the wider political consequences of its adoption. — Read on http://www.academia.edu/64028197/International_law_politics_and_opposition_to_the_Iraq_War

Interview with Max Fox, M.E. O’Brien, and Tiana Reid, conducted by Nico Millman — Read on http://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/25/interviews/nicomillman/pinko-magazine/

This is the second part of a two-part article on the Palestinian question. This part treats the development and trajectory of anticolonial nationalism, focusing on the post-1970s period in the Gaza Strip. It treats the growth and development of the main armed factions in the Strip, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and then discusses Israeli policiesContinue reading “Palestine’s Great Flood: Part II – Max Ajl, 2024”