Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air is a damn good book, one that should be must reading for all those who consider themselves part of the left today and for future generations of socialists as well.


Elbaum has done the left a great service in crafting this incisive history and analysis of the rise and demise of the preeminent revolutionary socialist political current that emerged from the radicalization of the 1960s, broadly definable as Maoist, which he calls the "New Communist Movement".

The US and Britain claim defeating the Taliban is part of a "good war" against al-Qaeda. Yet there is evidence the 2001 invasion was planned before 9/11


"To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of the world." -- Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, speaking about Afghanistan, 1898