RON JACOBS welcomes a history of the Young Patriots Organisation that is also an organising manual with applications and implications for today

RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography

RON JACOBS is enthralled by Roberto Saviano’s portrait of heroes and deplorables, that calls for people to stand up for themselves and the things they believe in

RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers

RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself

RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

RON JACOBS recommends an outstanding family memoir of life in Gaza

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An analysis of the choices facing the US left has to reach beyond the confines of the Democrat party, suggests RON JACOBS

RON JACOBS welcomes a first-hand account of the dangerous journey through central America faced by migrants

RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s

With reservations, RON JACOBS recommends a deep dive into the nature, history, and mindset of US intelligence

RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators

RON JACOBS welcomes a survey of US punk in the era of Reagan, and sees the necessity for some of the same today