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RON JACOBS
CPUSA
Book Review / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US

black nationalism
Books / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation

gaza
Books / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

RON JACOBS is moved to tears by an eloquent journal of heartfelt intensity and human portraiture

fascism genocide
Books / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025

An analysis of the choices facing the US left has to reach beyond the confines of the Democrat party, suggests RON JACOBS

Darien Gap jungle on the Colombian side near Panamanian border / Pic:Paivi & Santeri/CC
Book Review / 24 August 2025
24 August 2025

RON JACOBS welcomes a first-hand account of the dangerous journey through central America faced by migrants

jacobs
Books / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025

RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s

US
Books / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

With reservations, RON JACOBS recommends a deep dive into the nature, history, and mindset of US intelligence

flynn
Book Review / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators

dicks
Books / 29 June 2025
29 June 2025

RON JACOBS welcomes a survey of US punk in the era of Reagan, and sees the necessity for some of the same today

shower
Books / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025

RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants

scorched
Books / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025

RON JACOBS salutes a magnificent narrative that demonstrates how the war replaced European colonialism with US imperialism and Soviet power

chile
Books / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile

A freed Palestinian prisoner, center, is greeted by a crowd
Books / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
RON JACOBS welcomes a Palestinian account of being subject to a brutal occupation supported by the most powerful governments in the world
IMPERIALISM CALLS THE SHOTS: Israeli army armored vehicles b
Books / 5 January 2025
5 January 2025
RON JACOBS recommends a timely pamphlet that provides both explanation and historical context for the fall of Assad
25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas celebrated in Gaza
Books / 7 January 2024
7 January 2024
RON JACOBS welcomes the reissue of a rare history of Hamas that offers insights into the organisation’s structure and strength
(L to R) Robert McNamara, Lt Col David Clement and Maj Gen L
Books / 28 July 2022
28 July 2022
RON JACOBS has some painful memories triggered by Robert McNamara son’s memoir of the fraught relationship he had with his father, a key architect of the US war on Vietnam
Yippie banner displayed at Washington DC Smoke-In on July 4
Book Review / 27 May 2022
27 May 2022
BITTER RIFT: Burl Ives (right) was castigated by Pete Seeger
Book Review / 27 October 2020
27 October 2020
This is a pertinent reminder of what the government is capable of doing to those who popularise a vision that runs counter to a capitalist economy, its wars and its racism, writes ROB JACOBS