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Recovering a history of Indigenous Communism in the US
Posted by Owen Walsh and Kathryn Berry on 2025-10-20
The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) has long been seen as a thoroughly ‘un-American’ organisation, not least by Cold War historians. Over recent decades, the claim that Communism only ever appeared in the US as a hostile Soviet plot has been roundly refuted in scholarship. Instead, scholars have established the importance of Communists to thoroughly American cultural traditions, civil rights [...]
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What the 1920s did to the Mexican Left
Posted by William A Booth on 2025-10-17
I was delighted to be able to contribute an article to this exciting Special Issue on Socialism and Indigeneity which grew out of a really rewarding conference we held at UCL last year. Although I had prepared a version of this article as my conference paper, both the depth of discussion at the event and the fascinating contributions from the other presenters left me feeling that I needed to both [...]
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Now indexed in Scopus!
Posted by Radical Americas Editorial Office on 2025-10-13
We are proud to announce that the Radical Americas journal is now indexed in Scopus, a leading abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature. This achievement marks a significant milestone for Radical Americas and the global community of scholars whose works engage in systemic critique of existing structures of power in the Western Hemisphere. Scopus indexing ensures that research [...]
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Peer Review Week 2024 - Q&A with Bill Booth
Posted by Radical Americas Editorial Office on 2024-09-25
For Peer Review Week 2024 UCL Press spoke with Dr Bill Booth (UCL, London), the co-Editor-in-Chief of Radical Americas. In this Q&A Bill discusses the processes involved in securing reviewer comments, and offers advice to early career researchers on how to get involved in the scholarly publishing community. This Q&A is an insightful read of a function of academic publishing that has [...]
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Reconstruyendo la izquierda ecuatoriana en las ruinas de la austeridad neoliberal
Posted by Geoff Goodwin on 2024-07-18
La victoria de Daniel Noboa en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales del 15 de octubre de 2023 dejó perplejos a los partidarios del expresidente Rafael Correa. ¿Cómo fue posible que un candidato de derechas, con un programa neoliberal similar al del profundamente impopular presidente saliente, Guillermo Lasso (2021-23), derrote a Luisa González, la candidata de izquierdas del [...]
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Rebuilding the Ecuadorian left in the rubble of neoliberal austerity
Posted by Geoff Goodwin on 2024-06-13
Daniel Noboa’s victory in the second round of the presidential elections on 15 October 2023 was perplexing for supporters of the former president, Rafael Correa. How did a right-wing candidate with a similar neoliberal agenda to the deeply unpopular outgoing president, Guillermo Lasso (2021-23) defeat Luisa González, the left-leaning candidate of the correísta party, Revolución [...]
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