As the Reagan administration busies itself with supplying military hardware to assorted repressive right-wing regimes in Latin America (Guatemala, Argentina, the lot of them), the publication of Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, by Jacobo Timerman (Knopf) could …
An exodus is not yet a revolution. In the case of Cuba, it comes as evidence of desperation and geographical convenience. Where the Hungarians and Czechs had to face Russian tanks, the Cuban escapees face Castro’s wrath, hazardous waters in …
This is a tainted review. For one thing, I’ve known H. W. Benson for many years; we have long been colleagues in the same movements and causes. Benson is, to put it plainly, a “nut” about democracy who had the …
Toward the end of this exhaustive study, Mr. Fried compresses a definition of McCarthyism into “semantic violence.” The dictionary consensus defines it as reckless accusation of pro-Communist activity unsupported by proof or, more generally, as the employment of unfair investigative …
“Seven times they raised me off the concrete and threw me down on it. They pinned my arms and shot short jabs to my face. I was punched and dragged by my feet to the stairway. I grabbed the railing …
A survey commissioned by the AFL–CIO Committee on Political Education, and conducted by the Joseph Kraft polling organization in January 1967, offers rich information about the state of union membership. Ostensibly commissioned to prove that the rank and file is overwhelmingly …
Among participants in the recent demonstrations for peace, especially the younger activists, dismay over the position of the unions on the Vietnam war has a way, at times, of spilling over into impatience, even hostility, toward the whole idea of …
Among participants in the recent demonstrations for peace, especially the younger activists, dismay over the position of the unions on the Vietnam war has a way, at times, of spilling over into impatience, even hostility, toward the whole idea of …
This pamphlet by the distinguished English economist reached DISSENT with a letter from the Monthly Review requesting our appraisal. Our editor referred it to this reviewer as the only member of the DISSENT editorial board who was once in China …
The State of the Unions by Paul Jacobs Atheneum, 1963, 303 pp., $5 Labor Today: The Triumphs and Failures of Unionism in the United States by B.J. Widick Houghton Mifflin, 1964, 238 pp., $3.75 America Comes of Middle Age by …
Khrushchev is no less a Russian Communist today than yesterday, nor is Mao Tse-tung more of a Chinese Stalinist than he was the day before. The thaw did not, so to speak, produce the recent violence of conflict between the …
For over one hundred days the New York printers stood up against an attack without parallel in recent union negotiations, and achieved what may fairly be called a victory. The most remarkable aspect of the strike was not the tenacity …
Claude Eatherly, as too few Americans yet know, is the pilot who led the bombing mission which dropped the first atom bomb on mankind over Hiroshima, and the second three days later over Nagasaki. Through acts of repentance, from trying …
Jim Peck is one of those remarkable men who make us all feel a little more human and dignified. Like his colleagues in CORE, he didn’t need the bona fides of 53 stitches in his head, earned on a Freedom …
A RADICAL’S AMERICA, by Harvey Swados. Atlantic—Little, Brown, 1962, xvii + 347 pp. In his introduction to this collection of essays, Harvey Swados writes that he has “attempted to maintain a a tension between skepticism and idealism.” The skepticism is, …
