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WATCH! MR Conversations: A Land With A People

Co-authors Rosalind Petchesky and Esther Farmer of Jewish Voice for Peace-NY, and their guests Sara Abou Rashed, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh and Sagiv Galai discuss their contributions to “A Land With A People” and demonstrate the power of anti-Zionism. (Scroll down for a sneak peek at their contributions to the book). | more…

Listen: Communes, the rural and the urban, and the shadows of bureaucratization (Authors of “Venezuela, The Present as Struggle” on Cosmonaut)

On this recent spot on “Cosmonaut,” Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina discuss communes in both urban and rural settings, and their role in the transition to socialism, the questions around oil and the economy, the economic problems of the revolution, the shadows of bureaucratization, the differences between the cities and the countryside and possible way forward for the revolution. | more…

Watch! Sam Seder to his young listeners: “I’m enamored of Social Security” (“The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans” featured on The Majority Report)

“It’s the best program we have probably adopted in this country, certainly beloved by many people. But I wanted to say this to our audience, that — much of our audience is younger than I am —  this is going to sound, on its face, boring, but this is one of the most important shows that we’ve done for you.” | more…

Sure to “inspire new directions in research and debate” (“Dissenting POWs” reviewed in H-Soz-Kult, H-NET)

Without trivializing the hardships of often several years in jail, Wilber and Lembcke dissect personal accounts by former POWs. They point out contradictions, distinguish between physical punishment measures and deliberate violence, reconstruct different phases in the history of the prisons, and conclude that brutal treatment and torture were less common and systematic than purported. | more…

Cuba’s defiant contributions to the fight against racism and white supremacy (Works by Horne and Fitz cited by ‘Latin America in Movement’)

Anti-American, anti-Jim Crow sentiment and against the white supremacist domination project were already present on the island well before the revolution….generating a revolt that was not only against foreign domination, but against a deeply racist domination that tried to impose the same ‘Jim Crow’ system on Cuba, trying to transform a society with racism into a racist society according to the model of white supremacy… | more…

“My presence actually matters” (Noura Erakat, contributor to “A Land With A People,” interviews Mohammed El-Kurd in The Nation)

‘In Arabic, there’s this proverb: Somebody else’s troubles make your troubles look like nothing. I’ve always thought my whole life that losing my home is not a big deal. I’ve genuinely always thought: “We’re losing our home, but at least we’re not getting shot. At least we’re not getting our residency revoked.” And I think this most recent uprising has taught me that it actually matters that I stay in my home….’ | more…