May Day Books Blog

“Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes,” edited by Alvin Josephy, 2006 The military ‘Corps of Discovery’ led by Meriwether Lewis and Willi...

When the Killing’s Done,” by T.C. Boyle, 2011 This book is about animal rights, invasive species and the conflict between the two.   It ...

The Socialist Challenge Today – Syriza, Sanders, Corbyn,” by Leo Panitich and Sam Gindin, 2018 This thin book addresses the most importa...

"The Cradle Will Rock,” by Frank Theatre, 3/16/2019 Frank Theatre first put on this play in an abandoned Sears building in 2003. ...

“Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism – Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century,” by Tony Smith, 2017 This is an acade...

‘The Bachelor,’ Season 23 , Colton and ‘Jumping the Fence’ This show is one of the top long-running ‘reality’ shows in the U.S.   It is...

“Comrade Detective” ( Tovarășul Detectiv), Television Series, 2017 (first 3 episodes) While the U.S. producers of this film thought it ...

“Tree of Smoke,” by Denis Johnson, 2007 Every fiction book has politics embedded within it.   Especially ones about the Vietnam War.   T...

Cross the Proletariat at Your Peril If you look across the world at the various elected right-wing populists in power, you can see their li...