Michael Yates in Counterpunch, on Bhaghat Singh
November 21, 2025
Gaza, India, Bhagat Singh, and the Right to Violently Rebel Against Imperial RepressionCategory: The Press
Forthcoming! Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx (Excerpt)
November 21, 2025
Praise for Breaking the Bonds of Fate “Offering a new perspective on Epicurus, this book provides an impressive presentation of Marx’s materialism from an Epicurean point of view. Absolutely fascinating!”... READ MOREFinancial Times’ best books of 2025? A new release from MRP about architects as workers
November 21, 2025
The Financial Times just listed the newly released book The Labor of Architecture as one of its chosen titles among the Best Books of 2025 in the category of Art,... READ MOREVenezuelan migrants “destroying New York”? (David Wilson featured on NYU Press blog)
February 20, 2024
So why not just end the U.S. embargo on Venezuela? If Venezuelans are coming here just to escape economic problems at home, reducing the embargo should bring about a major decline in Venezuelan asylum seekers.
Towards postcapitalist tech (Beyond Digital Capitalism reviewed in ‘Science and Society’)
February 20, 2024
The book ends with a broad literature review on our possible postcapitalist future by Greg Albo. This concluding chapter and the rest of the book offer the reader hope to overcome the contemporary crisis and meet a healthier and happier future
Offering hope to the left (Until We Fall reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)
February 20, 2024
Already in the early 1980s if not before: “It was clear to most of us that socialism couldn’t survive without radical democratisation ... it had to be based on consent.” Nevertheless, for Sheehan as for many of us on the left, the demise of the socialist bloc represented a defeat and the restoration of capitalism. It was “the most dramatic upheaval, politically and psychologically,” Sheehan says.
Listen: Chris Gilbert’s Commune or Nothing! featured on ‘Cosmonaut’
February 20, 2024
Recently the podcast Cosmonaut hosted Chris Gilbert for a discussion of his new book 'Commune or Nothing!' They covered topics such as: The history of communes, the Venezuelan cooperative movement and the drive to build state-run industry; István Mészáros' perspective on how the commune centers the communal control of the labor process; the problem of attracting the youth to communes today; the mystical side of communes in relation to human development, and more...
UAW fails to win back pensions for newer workers
February 20, 2024
The UAW strike against Big Auto succeeded in winning impressive wage gains, but it failed to obtain a little-reported demand: that the auto companies reinstate defined benefit pension plans for new employees...
“A lasting tribute to meticulous journalism” (The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition reviewed in ‘Asian Affairs’)
February 20, 2024
Stone, as always working from open-source materials, condemned the continuation of the bombing of the north even though there were no viable military targets left...These days, the Stone’s 'Hidden History,' while still viewed with hostility in certain quarters, is regarded as one of his best works. But given that it appeared long before the archives were open and while the conflict in Korea continued, is there merit in republishing it? The answer is yes. Stone may not have got everything right, and occasionally lapses into conspiracy theories, but his broad picture was accurate enough at the time and remains so. It is a lasting tribute to meticulous journalism.
The making of capitalism (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘Against the Current’)
February 20, 2024
Protests against enclosure began as far back as 1450, when “tens of thousands of English peasants fought, and thousands died, to halt the spread of capitalist farming that was destroying their way of life.”