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The Free-market Family by Maxine Eichner
Grim reality of unbridled free-market policies for US poor
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
IN THE current Black Lives Matter crisis, this book offers key insights into the conditions of black and working-class families in the US.
Focusing on the US’s grinding culture of overwork, job insecurity and absence of basic levels of support, it shows the astonishing disparities created by free-market policies.
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