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Black Scare in California: Blacks, Reds, and Revolution in the 1960s and ’70s

Blacks, Reds, and Revolution in the 1960s and '70s

This article will be released in full online September 29, 2025.

Joel Wendland-Liu reviews Armed Struggle?, Gerald Horne’s exploration of the state violence and repression that were successfully employed to demolish the Black Panther Party and its influence throughout the 1960s and ’70s. Though Horne’s recounting, Wendland-Liu writes, we can take powerful lessons about the roles of race and class in the militant drive toward liberation. | more…

Li Dazhao: China's First Communist, Patrick Fuliang Shan

New Biography of “China’s First Communist” Reveals Nuances for English-Speaking Readers

Joel Wendland-Liu reviews Li Dazhao: China’s First Communist, by Patrick Fuliang Shan (SUNY Press, 2024). This first-ever English-language biography of Li, a founding member of the Communist Party of China, Wendland-Liu writes, contains not only new scholarship but a fresh approach to the life of this revolutionary figure. | more…

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