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“A Socialist Defector” (Grossman reviewed in Socialism and Democracy)

While deploring “shameful” aspects of Stalin’s rule and its “heavy hand” that limited economic experimentation, Grossman finds the Soviet presence to have been crucial in erasing fascism from public life, “breaking the chokehold of cartels, banks, chauvinist press lords and arrogant Junkers.” | more…

A “punchy manifesto” (Eisenstein reviewed by Socialism and Democracy)

Read as a short, punchy manifesto it serves as a timely call- to-action for a generalist audience that seeks to organise against what bell hooks (2004) calls “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. I agree with Eisenstein that thinking with black radical conceptu- alisations of intersectionality is central to such a project…. | more…

As Modi pushes neoliberal “reforms,” let’s remember: Why were the banks nationalised in India? (Prabhat Patnaik, coauthor of “Capital and Imperialism,” in Portside)

Every major economic step taken by the Narendra Modi government, from Goods and Services Tax, to demonetisation, to the farm laws, has been aimed against the petty production sector and has sought to carry forward the process of primitive accumulation of capital, in accordance with the neoliberal agenda. | more…

On Biden’s staged riots in Cuba (Prensa Latina interviews Salim Lamrani)

Lamrani abundó que en este contexto de doble castigo bloqueo-pandemia resulta lógico el malestar de las personas, escenario que Estados Unidos busca aprovechar para conseguir su objetivo trazado desde el triunfo de la Revolución en 1959: ‘romper el orden establecido y conseguir un cambio de régimen’…. | more…