May Day Books Blog

--> --> Crying Wolf --> I recently attended another excellent forum at May Day put on by 3CTC, a left-wing environmen...

“The Pale King,” by David Foster Wallace, posthumously published 2011 Do I get to buy a T-Shirt that says, “I finished a Novel by DFW!”...

--> The Minneapolis Spectacle   The Minneapolis 'spectacle' is not much different than any other city in the U.S.   E...

"Rebel Cities – from the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution,” by David Harvey, 2012 Harvey is a British-born Marxist geogra...

European Working Classes Having an Effect in Electoral Arena   United Kingdom - The recent by-elections in the United Kingdom show...

“The Holocaust Industry – Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering” by Norman Finkelstein, 2 nd Edition, 2003 This is...

Reflections on May Day I think I know the happiest May Day.  Today is the anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the liberation of ...

Local Rich Suburbanite Runs Over Thai Cook with Mercedes SUV She thought he was only a construction cone.  She had gotten lost and could...

“Griftopia – a Story of Bankers, Politicians and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History” by Matt Taibbi, 2011 Taibbi, a regul...

“All Art is Propaganda,” by George Orwell, Collected 2008 The title of this book should be refined in the way Orwell does in these essays, w...

Film: “The Hunger Games,” 2012 Roman Coliseum, Lord of the Flies, the Emerald City, a Nuremberg Rally, a reality show, a high-tech surveil...