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Chicago, April 17: Howard Waitzkin on Health Care Under the Knife via FRESH Ayers

If you’re in Chicago Thursday, May 17, you’re invited to FRESH Ayers, a discussion series on various books, conducted by Bill Ayers, social justice activist, author, and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Education (retired) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This event features MRP author Howard Waitzkin, who’ll talk with Bill about his latest book, Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond the Capitalism for Our Health. | more…

“Freedom” and “Liberty” Were Only for Whites in Settler Colonialism: Truthout’s Mark Karlin interviews Gerald Horne

Mark Karlin: How did you settle on the title The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism for your book?
Gerald Horne: In my opinion, discussing profound change in the US without a popularizing of the concept of “settler colonialism” would be akin to seeking change in pre-1994 South Africa without underscoring “apartheid.” By adding “apocalypse,” I wanted to at once contrast this account with past accounts, which have tended to stress the “benefits” of settler colonialism, which obviously elides and obscures (if not justifies) genocide and dispossession targeting the Indigenous population of North America and mass enslavement of Africans…. | more…

Gerald Horne speaks at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 14th Annual African American History Month Lecture

On February 21, radical historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean was the featured speaker at The University of North Carolina’s (Chapel Hill) 14th African American History Month Lecture. As he is introduced by history professor Genna Rae McNeil, the video segment below begins Gerald Horne’s lecture… | more…

Gerald Horne on By Any Means Necessary, 105.5 FM, Washington, DC

Radio Sputnik‘s By Any Means Necessary hosts Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Gerald Horne, eminent radical historian and Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Up for discussion are the Black press in America, how the failure to address racial apartheid in America in the past has led to problems today, and the importance of addressing settler colonialism and white supremacy to understand the Trump presidency. Also considered are Dr. Horne’s three most recent books | more…

Gerald Horne & Paul Coates: “Why Black Lives Don’t Matter: A Radical Interpretation of U.S. History” via The Real News Network

Paul Coates, founder of the Black Classic Press, and Gerald Horne, author of over 40 books on Black history, including, most recently, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean and Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly, came together on April 18, 2018 at Baltimore’s The Real News Network for a radical discussion of U.S. history | more…

Barbaric Production: Gerald Horne Discusses Slavery, Capitalism, and White Supremacy on This is Hell!

Historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, talks to Chuck Mertz about his book — and our history — on This is Hell!, which broadcasts every Saturday, 9AM-1PM (CDT) on WNUR 89.3FM Chicago and podcasts to the world shortly after. | more…

Chicago, April 27-29: Rosa Luxemburg, Engaging the Left; Impacting the World

April 27-28, 9AM-8PM | April 29, 9AM-1PM
UE Hall, 37 S Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60607
Free and Open to the Public
Speakers include: Michael Löwy (France), Helen Boak (England), Radhika Desai (Canada), Pablo Slavin (Argentina), Drucilla Cornell (USA), Zhang Meng (China), Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (India), Ottokar Luban (Germany), Ankica Čakardič (Croatia), and many others | more…

Backstage at the Trump Show: Mumia Abu-Jamal on Neo-Fascism in the White House

Prison Radio, an independent, multi-media production studio devoted to challenging mass incarceration, regularly presents the work of imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. Here, in a recent broadcast, entitled “The Trump Show” (produced by Noelle Hanrahan), Mumia dismisses whimsical media condescension about Donald Trump and his vast, “sub-intellectual” support base. Trump’s so-called populism “ain’t a joke,” says Mumia; it deserves too be seen according to John Bellamy Foster‘s analysis in Trump in the White House: as neo-fascism. | more…

Tumultuous Rapids: Countercurrents.org reviews Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

History…is not a peacefully flowing river, but made up of different moments, separated by tumultuous rapids’ (134). When the USSR broke apart in 1991, an unprecedented ideological campaign was launched, propagating the idea that Soviet collapse implied the collapse of the socialist project as a whole. The ‘end of history’ was said to be at hand. ¶ Amin’s critical reading of Russian history de-bunks this myth, with the compact prose and theoretical precision that is characteristic of Amin’s many writings… | more…