“Mapping Water in Dominica” (Horne reviews Mark W. Hauser for H-Net)
February 20, 2024
...examining shards of slave property, waterways, mills, and vessels for storing water....
Monthly Review Press
Opinion: From crisis to catastrophe (Horne on Ukraine, in ‘Black Agenda Report’)
February 20, 2024
With Germany pledging to re-arm, we also witness the shortsightedness of world imperialism, which refuses to learn the lessons of the 20th century, especially the catastrophe of world war ending with the uncovering of industrial funeral pyres in 1945. Not only Washington but London, Brussels and Paris should be shuddering right now....
WATCH MR Classics: Nkrumah’s ‘Consciencism,’ with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown (Plus excerpts)
February 20, 2024
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled "MR Classics," starting with Kwame Nkrumah's thought, the philosophy he called 'Consciencism." We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire.
Brings homes the seemingly Sisyphean task of a collective revolutionary project, “with theoretical and stylistic aplomb” (Marx & Philosophy Review of Books on “Marx, Dead and Alive”)
February 20, 2024
"Marx, Dead and Alive" packs an extraordinary amount into its 184 pages, both historical detail and in contemporizing Marx with multifarious global contexts and examples.... it would make an excellent introduction for someone just starting to grasp Marx and wanting clear definitions of alienation, capital, class, commodity fetishism, value and wage labour – amongst other key concepts....
Her Majesty’s African-American Allies: A review by Gerald Horne
February 20, 2024
It is well-established that African-Americans have sought allies abroad as a way to weaken opposition at home. Often, scholars have tackled this important topic as it manifested during the Cold War. The work at hand emulates previous scholarship in detailing this trend during the antebellum and early postbellum era...
The Kisan Movement’s Direct Action: A defeat not only to Modi, but imperialism
February 20, 2024
Particular battles often have a significance that goes beyond the immediate context, of which even the combatants may not be fully aware at the time... The battle between the Kisan movement and the Modi government falls into the same genre. At the most obvious level, it has been seen as a climbdown by the Modi government in the face of the incredible resoluteness shown by the agitating peasants. At another level, it has also been seen as a setback for neoliberalism...
WATCH: Hosted by The People’s Forum, MR’s first live, in-person book launch in years!
February 20, 2024
"I never choose activism. It chose me," Riham Barghouti began. "It's like I was born into royalty, but in my case the exact opposite...I was born into a people being dispossessed, a history being erased, a culture being appropriated, a land being confiscated."
“A brave book,” well-timed with the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords (“Dissenting POWs” reviewed in Peace & Change)
February 20, 2024
As part of its survey of POWs in society, the book delves into movie treatments. The antiwar prisoners were obscured by Hollywood, which preferred films on the POWs and “Missing in Action” (MIAs) who were supposedly left behind, or which dwelt on the trope of the deranged veteran....
Sure to “inspire new directions in research and debate” (“Dissenting POWs” reviewed in H-Soz-Kult, H-NET)
February 20, 2024
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.
Read alongside primary texts, “an important tool in the labor movement and the classroom” (Michael Yates reviewed in Socialism & Democracy)
February 20, 2024
Yates takes a decidedly unorthodox approach. He spends a fair amount of time explaining the importance of reclaiming common spaces and “commoning” practices....