Loren Goldner

Online archive of texts by and about Loren Goldner (1947-2024), communist writer-activist and co-editor of Insurgent Notes.

Loren Goldner

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Book review: Mitchell Abidor's "May Made Me"

Loren Goldner reviews "May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France" by Mitchell Abidor for Insurgent Notes #16, 2018.

On the centennial of the october revolution - Loren Goldner

From Insurgent Notes #16, February 2018.

A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

Book review: Joshua Kurlantzick's "A Great Place to Have a War"

Loren Goldner reviews "A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA …

US-China relations in the age of Trump - Loren Goldner

From Insurgent Notes #15, August 2017.

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Book review: Beth Macy's "Factory Man"

Loren Goldner reviews "Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town" (2014) by Beth…

[Video] The Chinese working class in the global capitalist crisis - Loren Goldner

"The Chinese Working Class in the Global Capitalist Crisis: Revolutionary Mass Strike or a New Bureaucratic Containment?" - Loren Goldner discusses the Chinese working class and its formation mostly since 1949. From Insurgent Notes #12.

Struggles in logistics in Italy - Loren Goldner

From Insurgent Notes #12.

Book review: Nick Turse's "Kill Anything That Moves"

Loren Goldner reviews "Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse for Insurgent Notes #11, January 2025.

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Book review: J. Arch Getty's "Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition"

Review by Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #10.

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The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #10.

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Book review: Philip Mirowski's "Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste"

Loren Goldner reviews "Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the…

CNT-FAI militants during the Spanish revolution

The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism; How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn’t), Then and Now

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #9.