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Benjamin Heim Shepard

Jeremy Varon’s Our Grief is Not a Cry for War

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With the US interventions from Iran to Venezuela, Jeremy Varon’s Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror is a reminder of all that can go wrong. “War is hell,” said General Sherman as Union troops moved to Atlanta in 1864; war is hell, then and now,…

Alexei Navalny’s Patriot: A Memoir

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A year after his death in a Siberian prison, the New York Times reports, “Even in Death, Navalny Is Seen by the Kremlin as an Enduring Threat …Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the year since he died.” On the 12th day of the second…

Stanley Aronowitz and That Big Factory

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It was always about that factory. Factory as a place for reproduction. For knowledge production.  For a means of production. For autonomy. For class struggle. For observation. For a union hall. For breaks. For  reimagining the working day. For reading a novel. For organizing. For getting away from it. For false promises. Maybe it was…