May Day Books Blog

  “A People’s Green New Deal,” by Max Aji, 2021 This book deals with various versions of the “Green New Deal” from a left perspective.  How ...

  “The Crisis in Cosmology:  A Marxist Analysis,” by Adam Booth, In Defence of Marxism magazine, Summer 2014 This is an excellent summati...

  “Life Under the Jolly Roger – Reflections on Golden Age Piracy” by Gabriel Kuhn, 2020 This is a political and anthropological look at pi...

  “The Tragedy of the Worker – Towards the Proletarocene” by the Salvage Collective, 2021 The key point of this book is to explain how the...

  The American Team and U.S. Olympic Coverage Watched the opening ceremony. (Peacock/NBC) When the U.S. team came out they were chanting...

  U.S. Cities With the Lowest Life Expectancy – May 2021 While thinking about the U.S., the bourgeois media describes politics in ‘red sta...

Kill the Assassins! If you follow streaming content or movies, after the endless formulaic detective shows (small town, damaged cop, dead ...

  “Hard Like Water,” by Yan Lianke, 2001 This is a satiric novel of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in a backwater town in China...

  “Silence,”  film by Martin Scorsese, 2016 This is an odd film about the attempt to turn Japanese farmers and fishermen into Christians b...