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The Imperial City and the City of Slums (Part 2)

July 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Mumbai slum, not the worst, by far.
A Tomdispatch Interview with Mike Davis (Part 2)
Mike Davis interviewed by Tom Engelhardt | May 12, 2006
TomDispatch

Victorian England under a triumphant laissez-faire…Wretched houses with broken windows patched with rags and paper; every room let out to a different family, and in many instances to two or even three – […]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Toxic Culture

The Monthly Review Story: 1949-1984

June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

BY ROBERT McCHESNEY

PAUL SWEEZY, FOUNDER OF MONTHLY REVIEW
I wrote this as a paper for a seminar in history during my first year of grad school at the University of Washington in 1984. It was a labor of love for me because it gave me an opportunity to read every single issue of Monthly […]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Obstinate History · The Left & Pseudo Left

IN REMEMBRANCE OF HANS KONING

May 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

BY SADI RANSON-POLIZZOTTI, tant mieux project (2004)

12 July 1921—13 April 2007
Author extraordinaire Hans Koning was born in Amsterdam and remembers being in high school when the Germans invaded his country on May 10, 1940. Koning, thankfully, managed to escape, and in 1942, he fled to England where he enlisted in The British Army (7 Troop, […]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Obstinate History · The Left & Pseudo Left