Peter Custers, 1949 – 2015
February 20, 2024
Monthly Review author Peter Custers died at his home in Leiden, the Netherlands on Tuesday, September 3rd, of a heart attack. See obituary in the Bangladeshi newspaper, The Daily Star... READ MORECategory: Monthly Review Press /
Your Time is Done Now reviewed in Repeating Islands
February 20, 2024
Polly Pattullo’s very important piece entitled Your Time is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814), is an edited collection of original primary source documents with contextual commentary detailing the account of what has been known as Dominica’s Second Maroon War in 1813 and 1814. Pattullo, a British writer and creator of her own publishing company entitled Papillote Press, uses the actual court documents of the Maroon (runaway slave) trials as well as correspondences between the British colonial government officials to disclose to public the eventful conflict between the Maroons and the colonial government of Dominica in the second decade of the nineteenth century.
Rosalyn Baxandall Remembered by Ruth Milkman in Jacobin magazine
February 20, 2024
“Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall, or “Ros” to her friends, was a trailblazing second-wave feminist and a lifelong radical. Brilliant, glamorous, and spirited, she was a devoted activist and intellectual for over... READ MORE
Hear Gerald Horne speak about his new book, Confronting Black Jacobins, at Tamiment Library, New York University, October 30
February 20, 2024
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, Gerald Horne, recorded... READ MORE
The raw material of exploitation: Harry Braverman’s ‘Labor and Monopoly Capital’
February 20, 2024
Work sucks. Every day, workers go into jobs they hate, whether in a factory, office or on a checkout line. Workers are made to perform menial and demeaning tasks that have already been outlined for them, down to the smallest details, by management. Their job is so simple that anyone can do it. Ultimately, the worker possesses no control at the workplace.
Reconstructing Lenin by Tamás Krausz Wins Deutscher Memorial Prize 2015
February 20, 2024
Reconstructing Lenin by Tamás Krausz – wins Deutscher Memorial Prize 2015 Named for the historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara, this prize is awarded each year for a book... READ MORE
Gerald Horne interviewed on KPFK 90.7fm on Race to Revolution and Confronting Black Jacobins
February 20, 2024
"Our first guest is Gerald Horne. His latest book is Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow. Dr. Horne is a Professor of African-American History at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than two dozen books..."
Marta Harnecker & Michael Lebowitz with LeftRoots: Linking Practice to Visions of 21st Century Socialism
February 20, 2024
SF BAY AREA – SEPTEMBER 13TH, 4-6 PM BROOKLYN, NY – SEPTEMBER 18TH, 7-9 PM “We are honored to bring Marta Harnecker and Michael Lebowitz to the United States for... READ MORE
Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America reviewed by Truthout.org
February 20, 2024
It would be an understatement to call Galeano's stitching together of the South American colonial "project" in Open Veins of Latin America masterful. It is a visionary book that connects the dots between racism, pillaging, capitalism and white Eurocentric patriarchal dominance of peoples and nations. The indigenous populations and people of color have been treated as so much tinder for the fire that heats the homes and replaceable labor that fattens the pocket books of the conquerors.
Reconstructing Lenin reviewed in Socialist Review
February 20, 2024
Rather than the standard chronological approach Krausz outlines Lenin’s politics thematically. After a concise biographical sketch the book highlights the importance of Lenin’s analysis of Russian capitalism in the future development of his politics.