Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.
Reviewers Ray and Wranovics call this book "a welcome contribution, and hopefully an opening towards further study of this significant and neglected part of California history."
This new study of the Communist Party USA, says, reviewer Wendland-Liu, "is at its best in its detailed treatment of political debates and the labor histories of the formative period and the popular front period."
Reviewer Wald praises this book's "grace," for the way its author "puts into conversation the deeply intertwined histories of what he calls 'straight, gay, or otherwise queer' people and the radical anti-capitalist movement."
George W. Crockett was a pioneering labor lawyer, defender of Communists and other left wingers, a progressive judge, and a member of Congress from Detroit. Reviewer Gespass reviews a new biography of this towering figure.
Charlene Mitchell led a long and multi-faceted political career, including first Black woman to run for President, leader of the movement against racial and political repression, advocate for democracy, socialism and internationalism.
This book studies how the Communist Party worked in post World War II Detroit, writes reviewer Johnson, "to effectuate social, economic, and political change in the city in this period."
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