May Day Books Blog

"The Bloody Shirt – Terror after the Civil War," by Stephen Budiansky, 2008 The “bloody shirt” was a phrase used by the defenders...

A Contract Is a Contract, Unless You Work for Your Money — Letter from UAW member on AIG Bailout Rip Off This past week Ford workers conced...

STOP FORECLOSURES! ACORN, the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, the IWW, Economic Crisis Action Group and Homes not Jails are spo...

The Patched Up Obama Stimulus Plan Feb 27, 2009 By Lynn Walsh ...

“ The Great Financial Crisis – Causes and Conflicts” - John Bellamy Foster & Fred Magdoff, 2009 These are astounding times for America...

“The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy – 2006 Cormac McCarthy is best known for penning the novel, “No Country for Old Men ,” which the Cohen brothe...

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is done under the name of totalitarianis...

I have posted the link of a Nobel Prize lecture presented by Harold Pinter in 2005 below. He starts by talking about literature but this is ...

Bust the Bailout! Lunch Hour Protest, US Bank, 800 Nicollet Mall, 12:00 Noon, December 3, Wednesday - U.S. Bank is receiving $6.6Bn of the m...

CRASH COURSE ON THE CRASH What led up to this economic crisis?  Whose fault is this, and why did rich bankers get bailed out?Crash Course on...

November 4, 2008 - U.S. Capitalism Wins, U.S. workers lose! Stay tuned for details... From the gang at MayDay ... Craig, Tom, Earl & Co.

Book Review: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It, by Marcia Angell, M.D., 2004 “Prescription dr...

Move Review: “Religulous” by Bill Maher, 2008 Religion has played a large part in the offensive by the U.S. right-wing for many years, since...

“Commie Girl in the OC”, by Rebecca Schocnkopf, 2008 Rebecca Schocnkopf got a nice blurb from Mike Davis, a real LA Marxist, on this book. ...

Book Reviews: The “Two Sinclairs” The (uncensored) Jungle, by Upton Sinclair and  “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis Odd how many le...

“Take the Streets” by Ed Felien, 2008. (See advertisement below review.) According to reports, Eddie wrote this short chronicle of the local...

Please join us to welcome a new book by local long-time activist Ed Felein:

As you may already know, our main Mayday Site was taken down right before the RNC due to a destructive virus discovered, or ostensibly disco...

... or rubber 'bullocks', bean bag electric chairs, Cossacks, motorcycle lice, bike copperheads, very large white tie-wraps for ankl...

After the longest week most of us have had in a long time, 'fall' is upon us. The summer 'vacation' is over, and book revie...

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Book Review: “A Peoples’ History of the Vietnam War”, by Jonathan Neale, 2001 This book is part of a series of peoples’ histories, edited ...