Monthly Review Press
June 29: Horace Campbell discusses Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, Columbus, OH
On Saturday, June 29, 3 to 7 pm, Horace Campbell will discuss Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya at the The Book Suite in Columbus, Ohio. He will be joined in discussion by Horace Ike Newsum of Ohio State University. The event in sponsored by Africa and Diaspora Development Linkages. … | more |
Henry Giroux interviewed on Truthout
Henry Giroux is the author of America’s Education Deficit and the War on Youth, recently published by MR Press. He discusses some of the issues covered in the book—including varieties of pedagogy and fundamentalism, markets, and the prospects for public schools—with Truthout editor Leslie Thatcher. … | more |
Clairmont Chung discusses Walter Rodney on Against the Grain
Clairmont Chung is the editor of Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution, published by Monthly Review Press, and director of the film W.A.R. Stories: Walter Anthony Rodney. He discusses the life and legacy of revolutionary and scholar Walter Rodney with C.S. Soong on KPFA’s Against the Grain radio program. … | more |
35% off June Book of the Month: Dispersed City of the Plains by Harris Stone
Dispersed City of the Plains is unlike anything else published by Monthly Review Press—that is, anything but the other three titles by the incomparable Harris Stone. Stone, a socialist, artist, and professor of architectural studies, grappled with questions of space, built forms, and culture in the era of monopoly capital. His approach alone is unique, but what truly sets Stone’s work apart is the form it takes on the finished page. The text is handwritten in careful script, lending the book an appealing aesthetic quality and forcing the reader to proceed a little slower and a little more carefully in the reading. This, in fact, was Stone’s intent. The handwritten text is accompanied by numerous illustrations, sketches of what he called “the dispersed city” that characterizes modern human habitation on the vast and lonely plains of the American heartland.… | more |
Joan Stone’s Foreword to Dispersed City of the Plains by Harris Stone
The following is Joan Stone’s Foreword to Dispersed City of the Plains by Harris Stone, his final book, published by Monthly Review Press in 1998. It provides a little context for the book’s creation and insight into Harris’s major aim: examining “the built form of the American city, the built form of monopoly capital.”… | more |
Nancy Stout Interviewed by Hazel Kahan
Nancy Stout is the author of One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution. In this in-depth interview, Stout discusses Sánchez’s life, her role in the Cuban revolution, and her relationship with Fidel Castro. The interview was conducted by Hazel Kahan for her Tidings podcast and WPKN in Bridgeport, CT. … | more |
José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology reviewed in Journal of Latin American Studies
Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker are well known for their important contributions to the study of Latin American Marxism, Latin American revolutionary politics and Jose Carlos Mariategui’s thought. Their new joint contribution is a volume that makes available to English readers a considerable number of Mariategui’s shorter texts… Mariategui, an undoubtedly gifted journalist, political author and literary critic, offers readers engaging and rich perspectives—mainly but not exclusively Latin American and Marxist ones—on some of the main issues that concerned European and Latin American progressive public opinion at the time. These translations are a welcome and useful aid for all engaged in teaching Latin American history and literature, the history of socialist ideas, indigenismo, world history, third world studies and so on.… | more |
Watch Salim Lamrani’s Lecture on The Economic War Against Cuba
Salim Lamrani is the author of The Economic War Against Cuba. On May 26 he discussed the history, impact, and possible demise of the U.S. imposed economic sanctions against Cuba at Secular Hall in Leicester, UK. The event was a joint meeting of the Leicester Cuba Solidarity Campaign and the Leicester Secular Society and part of a UK speaking tour organized by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign. … | more |
America’s Education Deficit and the War on Youth reviewed on Critical-Theory.com
Giroux offers a compelling primer for the chaos that neoliberalism has wrought on our youth and education system. Giroux writes with passion that borders on poetic. And, unlike a lot of critical theory, the book is intelligible and easy to read. It would make a welcome addition any OWS-style people’s library or intro-level college class.… | more |
Bruce Neuburger discusses Lettuce Wars at Revolution Books in NYC, June 11
Bruce Neuburger is the author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California. Join him for a talk at Revolution Books in New York City on June 11 at 7pm. … | more |