Posts tagged: weekend-read

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  Louis Althusser's Letter on the "May Events"

  Louis Althusser's preliminary analysis of May 1968, written in a 1969 letter to Maria Antonietta Macciocchi.

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  Just Short of the "Conscious Leap": Ernest Mandel in 1968

  Jan Willem Stutje describes Ernest Mandel's experiences in Berlin with Rudi Dutschke and on the barricades in Paris during 1968. 

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  Militancy in Many Forms: Teachers Strikes and Urban Insurrection, 1967–74

  Marjorie Murphy looks at the often fraught relationship between rank-and-file public school teacher militancy and the urban uprisings of the late 1960s and early 70s. 

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  The Beginning of the End

  An excerpt from Angelo Quatttrocchi's lyrical eyewitness account of May 1968 in Paris. 

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  The Origins of Atlantic Liberalism

  The philosophical roots of rights-based liberal individualism lie in efforts to legitimate imperial expansion. 

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  Dorothy Thompson: The Personal and the Political

  In this 1993 interview with Sheila Rowbotham, Dorothy Thompson reflects on her life as a historian and as a socialist. 

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  Tales of Gender

  Novelist Wang Anyi casts an ironic glance on the transformation of gender relations in China during the 1980s and 90s. 

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  Global Corporations and "World Music"

  The chronic crisis of the record industry is compounded by a constant paradox, apparently inherent in the technology of reproduction, by which music is turned into a commodity only to see it escape.

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  A Brief History of School Violence in the United States (2011)

  In this Weekend Reads excerpt from Lockdown High, Annette Fuentes reconstructs the history of school violence in the US, as both a fact and a concept, from the nineteenth century onwards. 

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  Tony Benn: A Political Journey

  In an extended 1982 conversation with the New Left Review editorial board, Tony Benn reviews his career in Parliament. 

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  The Niger Delta: A People and Their Environment

  Europe's plunder of the Niger Delta dates back to 1444.

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  History as a Way of Learning

  William Appleman Williams criticizes common abuses of American history and explains his own method.