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Gayatri Patnaik Named Director of Beacon Press

Following Helene Atwan's retirement, Patnaik has been promoted to director, effective July 30.

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The Makhnovists and the Mennonites: war and peace in the Ukrainian Revolution

This is a story about massacres that occurred in Southern Ukraine between 26th October and 7th December, 1919. The victims, avowedly-pacifist German Mennonites, included several women and elderly people; in Eichenfeld, almost one third of the village population was killed, including a 65 year-old blind woman. All the massacres occurred in the vicinity of the Makhnovist army. And then, after six weeks, they stopped.

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Monthly Review | On Creative Destruction, Myths, and Revolution

David B. Feldman is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on capitalist globalization and migrant labor.
Mark Jay and Philip Conklin,
A People’s History of Detroit (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), 320 pages, $26.95, paperback.
Four decades have passed since Howard Zinn published
A People’s History of the United States, retelling the history of the most powerful capitalist nation-state through the eyes of the downtrodden and oppressed. In its own peculiar way, Zinn’s text was something of an unintended rejoinder to Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign slogan: “Let’s Make America Great Again.” Organized labor and the powerful social movements of the 1960s and early ’70s found themselves on the back foot as factories shuttered across the industrial heartland and a pervasive sense of decline spread throughout much of the U.S. populace. If, on the one hand, Zinn rejected the notion that the United States represents some sort of “shining city on the hill,” on the other hand, he expressed great reverence for its storied tradition of popular resistance to exploitation and domination. This type of “history from below” enjoyed a mini renaissance under the administration of Donald Trump, another right-wing former entertainer who captured the presidency after promising to make America great again—albeit this time amid rumblings of a new round of incipient left-wing social struggle.

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