is an independent historian living in the greater Boston area. He has been published in Socialism and Democracy, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, MRZine, Kasama, Counterpunch, Socialist Viewpoint, Green Left Weekly, Open Media Boston, Jacobin, Cultural Logic and Red Wedge magazine. He was active in Occupy Boston and is a volunteer at the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge, MA. He is the author of a forthcoming book Specters of Communism on the French communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui from Haymarket Books.
Revolutionary Union members weren’t going off to do some exciting actions and waiting for the rest of the world to rise up. This is heavy stuff. These young people basically said “I’m going to dedicate my life to making a revolution in the United States.”
Viewpoint Magazine