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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Abu-Jamal in 1988 (Photo: Prison Radio)

    Book Review: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s ‘Have Black Lives Ever Mattered’

    Originally published: Shadowproof on July 30, 2017 by Roqayah Chamseddine (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2021)

    Though he’s spent the last 35 years incarcerated—and at least thirty of those years in isolation on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has remained steadfast in his activism, especially in regards to police brutality, criminal punishment, and black liberation.

  • DISSENTER FEATUREDLATEST NEWSTHE DISSENTERTHE PROTEST MUSIC PROJECT PROTEST SONG OF THE WEEK: ‘I PITY THE COUNTRY’ BY LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON

    Protest song of the week: ‘I pity the Country’ by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    Originally published: Shadowproof on April 7, 2021 by CJ Baker (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an acclaimed novelist, poet, scholar, and singer. She is also a member of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg people, native to southern Ontario, Canada. She recently released her stunning new album “Theory Of Ice.”

  • Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl

    Pentagon whistleblower under investigation after warning about risks of war with China over Taiwan

    Originally published: Shadowproof on June 24, 2021 by Kevin Gosztola (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl has been part of the United States Marine Corps for over four decades. He spent the last months trying to warn U.S. government officials and the public of the threat of becoming entangled in a war with China over Taiwan.

  • Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer at the Inside Politics Press Breakfast in 2011, hosted by Third Way. Photo via Third Way on Flickr.

    Clinton democrats embrace losing strategy to combat ‘Sanders-style socialism’ in midterms

    Originally published: Shadowproof on July 25, 2018 by Kevin Gosztola (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Jul 27, 2018)

    Democratic Party elites are increasingly concerned the midterm elections will be a “base election” and make their centrist politics even more irrelevant, as insurgent candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez garner widespread support.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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