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The Egyptian Revolution of 2011, was perhaps the important event of the 'Arab Spring'. It was a seminal moment for me, and a generat...

The rise of global far-right and fascist parties and movements is something of great concern to working people. It is, perhaps, the most dan...

How would you react if suddenly, out of the blue, you discovered that everything you were certain about your parents was untrue? This is wha...

Preparing for a trip to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton one is struck how the interconnected history of Indigenous people and immigrants remain ...

Lenin's short book on Imperialism is perhaps the best known of his extensive writings. So well known, in fact, that the edition I've...

First published in 1899 with a new edition in 1908, Lenin's The Development of Capitalism in Russia is a systematic exploration of the ...

I stumbled upon Willa Cather's O Pioneers! ' due to my interest in the people and history of the North American praire. First publis...

In 2020 Indigenous fishers from the Mi’kmaw First Nation in Nova Scotia came under attack from settler fishers. The Indigenous fishers were...

Sir Hector Macdonald was an unusual soldier in the British Army in the late 19th and very early 20th century. He distinguished himself at th...

My Heart is a Chainsaw is the first in a trilogy of horror novels by Stephen Graham Jones. As I mentioned in my earlier review of his book ...

In 1868 the pioneer American photographer Alexander Gardner joined a delegation from the US government that was negotiating with the Lakota ...

Tiffany Aching is one of the great characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasies. While the novels she is in are aimed at young ad...

During the Coronavirus pandemic Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year gained a new popularity. Despite being an account of one ma...

It is New York, Christmas ,1932. Prohibition is almost over and so most people are drinking quite heavily. There is a lot of cigarette smoke...

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science. Anyone who has read a small part of his work will be str...