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Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought UC Press, 2009

C. Wright Mills liked to think big. His analyses of power elites, white collar workplaces, the Cuban Revolution, and potential sources of radical social transformation were influential with thinkers, activists, and concerned citizens in many parts of the globe. Daniel Geary describes Mills's ideas and their impact on a number of social movements, especially the New Left.

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Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought UC Press, 2009

C. Wright Mills liked to think big. His analyses of power elites, white collar workplaces, the Cuban Revolution, and potential sources of radical social transformation were influential with thinkers, activists, and concerned citizens in many parts of the globe. Daniel Geary describes Mills's ideas and their impact on a number of social movements, especially the New Left.

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Tommi Avicolli Mecca, ed., Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation City Lights, 2009

Forty years to the month after the Stonewall Riots sparked the gay liberation movement, a new volume edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca remembers the radical activism of the '60s and '70s and assesses the current state of LGBT organizing. Paola Bacchetta's essay recalls her involvement with a lesbian political group in Philadelphia.

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Pamela Oliver, "Repression and Crime Control" Mobilization

Patrick Bond, "End of Neoliberalism? Sorry, Not Yet" ZSpace

Are crime and political dissent mutually exclusive? Or is crime control connected to the control and repression of political movements? Pamela Oliver considers these questions in the context of the Black urban riots of the 1960s and the ongoing mass incarceration of African Americans. Also, Patrick Bond comments on the global economic strategy announced at last week's G-20 summit.

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Charles Henry, Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations NYU Press, 2007

Maybe you think the push for racial reparations is mainly, or solely, about money. What if it weren't? What if the demands of reparations advocates were taken seriously, in all their variety and complexity? Charles Henry recounts some key reparations struggles and suggests ways of achieving reparative justice.

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Shultz & Draper, eds., Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization U.C. Press, 2009

George Packer, "Betrayed: The Iraqis Who Trusted America the Most" The New Yorker

Mass protests over the handling of Bolivia's oil and natural gas resources have toppled two presidents since 2003. Gretchen Gordon recounts the role played by social movements in efforts to nationalize that nation's energy industry. And in his play Betrayed, George Packer investigates the plight of Iraqis who took jobs with the US occupiers.