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 Review
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 Notes from
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Ahmad, Aijaz. The Communist Manifesto and the Problem of Universality, JUN98

Altieri, Miguel A. Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture and the Possibilities for Truly Sustainable Farming, JUL/AUG98

Amin, Samir. Spectres of Capitalism, MAY98

Bagdikian, Ben H. Capitalism and the Information Age: Book Review, DEC98

Block, Fred. The Politics of Class War from Above: Book Review, SEP98

Bond, Patrick. Political Reawakening in Zimbabwe: Review of the Month, APR99

Brenner, Aaron. The Color of Politics: Book Review, SEP98

Brenner, Johanna. On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History: Review of the Month, NOV98

Brisben, J. Quinn. Mass Movements Need Mass History: Book Review, JAN99

Buhle, Paul. An Asian-American Tale: Book Review, JAN99

Burkett, Paul. Fusing Red and Green: Book Review, FEB99

Clairmont, Frederic F. The Market Gulag: Book Review, JUN98

Cohen, Sylvester. Amilcar Cabral: An Extraction from the Literature, DEC98

Einstein, Albert. Why Socialism?: Review of the Month, MAY98

Foster, John Bellamy. A Classic of Our Time: Labor and Monopoly Capital After a Quarter-Century, JAN99

Foster, John Bellamy. Contradictions in the Universalization of Capitalism, APR99

Foster, John Bellamy. Malthus' Essay on Population at Age 200: A Marxian View: Review of the Month, DEC98

Foster, John Bellamy. Rebuilding Marxism: Book Review, MAR99

Foster, John Bellamy. Science in a Skeptical Age: Book Review, JUN98

Foster, John Bellamy and Fred Magdoff. Liebig, Marx and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: Relevance for Today's Agriculture, JUL/AUG98

Gill, Stephen.The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis: Review of the Month, MAR99

Gimenez, Martha E. Revisiting the Marx-Malthus Debate: Book Review, MAR99

Gowan, Peter. Communists and Workers in Ex-Communist Europe, MAY98

Greenbaum, Joan. On Twenty-Five Years with Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital, JAN99

Heffernan, William D. Agriculture and Monopoly Capital, JUL/AUG98

Henderson, Elizabeth. Rebuilding Local Food Systems from the Grassroots Up, JUL/AUG98

Hess, John L. Camus Against the Other: Book Review, DEC98

Hinton, William. The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China, JUL/AUG98

Kuhn, Rick. Rural Reaction and War on the Waterfront in Australia, NOV98

Landau, Saul. No Mas Canosa, MAR99

Leary, Elly. What Goes Around Comes Around, MAY98

Lewontin, R. C. The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian, JUL/AUG98

Löwy, Michael. Globalization and Internationalism: How Up-to-date is the Communist Manifesto?, NOV98

Magdoff, Fred, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. Introduction (Hungry for Profit) special issue, JUL/AUG98

Magdoff, Harry. A Note on the Communist Manifesto, MAY98

Mansour, Fawzy. A Second Wave of National Liberation?, FEB99

Maslyukov, Valentin. A Report from Minsk, SEP98

McChesney, Robert W. The U.S. Left and Media Politics, FEB99

McChesney, Robert W. Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism, APR99

McMichael, Philip. Global Food Politics, JUL/AUG98

McNally, David. Globalization on Trial: Crisis and Class Struggle in East Asia: Review of the Month, SEP98

Middendorf, Gerad, Mike Skladany, Elizabeth Ransom, and Lawrence Busch. New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice, JUL/AUG98

Miller, Will. Social Change and Human Nature, FEB99

Mojab, Shahrzad. “Muslim” Women and “Western” Feminists: The Debate on Particulars and Universals, DEC98

Moseley, Fred. The U.S. Economy in 1999: Goldilocks Meets the Big Bad Bear?, MAR99

Nash, Andrew. Mandela's Democracy, APR99

Newsinger, John. Churchill, Stalin, and the Greek Revolution, APR99

Newsinger, John. The Reconstruction of Bourgeois Order in Northern Ireland: Review of the Month, JUN98

Palmer, Bryan. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement, JAN99

Panitch, Leo. “The State in a Changing World”: Social-Democratizing Global Capitalism?, OCT98

Parenti, Michael. Reflections on the Politics of Culture, FEB99

Poppendieck, Janet. Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality, JUL/AUG98

Richards, Marc. The Cold War According to My Weekly Reader, OCT98

Rinehart, James. The Canadian Auto Workers: An Inspirational Story: Book Review, NOV98

Rinehart, James. The International Motor Vehicle Program's Lean Production Benchmark: A Critique, JAN99

Roberts, Joseph K. Multilateral Agreement on Investment, OCT98

Robinson, H. Lukin. Different from the United States: Lucky Canada: Book Review, APR99

Rosset, Peter M. Alternative Agriculture Works: The Case of Cuba, JUL/AUG98

Rude, Christopher. “Postmodern Marxism:” A Critique: Book Review, NOV98

Sherman, Howard. The Evolution of Law: Book Review, APR99

Simon, John J. Ella Baker, Who Would Not Rest for Freedom: Book Review, NOV98

Singer, Daniel. Why We Need a New Manifesto, MAY98

Spalding, Hobart. U.S. Imperialism and 1898, DEC98

Sweezy, Paul M. The Communist Manifesto Today, MAY98

Tabb, William K. The East Asian Financial Crisis, JUN98

Tabb, William K. Progressive Globalism: Challenging theAudacity of Capital: Review of the Month, FEB99

Trumpbour, John. Greenwash and Globalization: Book Review, MAR99

Wald, Alan. Between Marxism and Pragmatism: Book Review, OCT98

Wallis, Victor. Keeping the Faith: The U.S. Left 1968-1998, SEP98

Weston, Jack. A Black Rosie the Riveter from a Red Perspective: Book Review, JAN99

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism, JUL/AUG98

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Capitalist Change and Generational Shifts: Review of the Month, OCT98

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years, MAY98

Yates, Michael D. Blacks, Whites, and Reds: Book Review, OCT98

Yates, Michael D. Braverman and the Class Struggle, JAN99

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Review of the Month

Bond, Patrick. Political Reawakening in Zimbabwe: Review of the Month, APR99

Brenner, Johanna. On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History: Review of the Month, NOV98

Einstein, Albert. Why Socialism?: Review of the Month, MAY98

Foster, John Bellamy. Malthus' Essay on Population at Age 200: A Marxian View: Review of the Month, DEC98

Gill, Stephen.The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis: Review of the Month, MAR99

McNally, David. Globalization on Trial: Crisis and Class Struggle in East Asia: Review of the Month, SEP98

Newsinger, John. The Reconstruction of Bourgeois Order in Northern Ireland: Review of the Month, JUN98

Tabb, William K. Progressive Globalism: Challenging theAudacity of Capital: Review of the Month, FEB99

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Capitalist Change and Generational Shifts, OCT98

Yates, Michael D. Braverman and the Class Struggle, JAN99

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Books Reviewed

Bandarage, Asoka. Women, Population, and Global Crisis, MAR99

Boggs, Grace Lee. Living for Change: An Autobiography, JAN99

Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, JAN99

Budiardjo, Carmelo. Surviving Indonesia's Gulag: A Western Woman Tells Her Story, JUN98

Burbach, Roger, Orlando Nunez, and Boris Kagarlitsky. Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms, NOV98

Chase, Anthony. Law and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System APR99

Gillott, John and Manjit Kumar. Science and the Retreat from Reason, JUN98

Gindin, Sam. The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union, NOV98

Goldfield, Michael. The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics, SEP98

Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, NOV98

Halberstam, David. The Children, JAN99

Horowitz, Roger. “Negro and White, Unite and Fight:” A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990, OCT98

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990, OCT98

Karliner, Joshua. The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization, MAR99

McChesney, Robert W., Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, eds. Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communications Revolution, DEC98

O'Connor, James. Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, FEB99

Phelps, Christopher. Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist, OCT98

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. The Breaking of the American Social Compact, SEP98

Roberts, Joseph K. In the Shadow of Empire: Canada for Americans, APR99

Saxton, Alexander. Bright Web in the Darkness, JAN99

Sherman, Howard. Reinventing Marxism, MAR99

Todd, Olivier. Albert Camus: A Life, DEC98

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