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RON JACOBS
fifa
Books / 28 May 2026
28 May 2026

RON JACOBS welcomes a sharp, intelligent and witty exposé of the corruption and right-wing politics that have taken over international professional football

BIGOTRY
Book Review / 15 May 2026
15 May 2026

RON JACOBS welcomes a beginner’s manual in how to remove bigotry from our individual selves and society at large

CONFORMISM v REBELLION: Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954 and Paul Robeson on a visit to London in 1958 Pics (L to R): Bob Sandberg/Public domain; PA
Book Review / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

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

Kissinger
Book Review / 20 March 2026
20 March 2026

RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger

baroud
Books / 4 March 2026
4 March 2026

RON JACOBS recommends an outstanding family memoir of life in Gaza

franco
Books / 20 February 2026
20 February 2026

RON JACOBS sees similarities between the personality of the the Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco, and Donald Trump

Most
Books / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

RON JACOBS welcomes a timely biography of a contemporary of Marx and Engels who advocated revolutionary socialism

solidarity
Book Review / 11 January 2026
11 January 2026

RON JACOBS welcomes a timely history of the Anti Imperialist league of America, and the role that culture played in their politics

falling light
Book Review / 16 December 2025
16 December 2025

RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today

CPUSA
Book Review / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US

black nationalism
Books / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation

gaza
Books / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

RON JACOBS is moved to tears by an eloquent journal of heartfelt intensity and human portraiture