February 20, 2024
Here is Alan Wieder, author of the new book Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid, interviewed about Ruth First and Joe Slovo on South Africa's Morning Talk radio show, SAfm, July 15, 2013.
February 20, 2024
Horace Campbell is the author of Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, published by Monthly Review Press. In this article he follows up on his analysis of Libya by discussing Obama's current trip to Africa in the context of U.S. imperial strategy.
February 20, 2024
Now in its 15th year, Coachella is the highest-grossing festival in the world. For the region it's a quarter-billion-dollar revenue generator, which outstrips Jamaica's GDP on an annual basis. Tickets run up to $800, luxury Safari tents top out at $6,500, and everything costs: parking, water, showers, even charging phones. The dominant tribe is money-flush youth with the will to endure three sleepless days of being mashed in a delicious sound taco of Indie rock. But Coachella is also the modern incarnation of medieval carnivals that revealed "another way of life that stood in stark contrast to the austerity and fixed hierarchy of the official order," notes Al Sandine in The Taming of the American Crowd.
February 20, 2024
In his book Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, Horace Campbell argues that Nato is "the instrument through which the capitalist class of North America and Europe seeks to impose its political will on the rest of the world, however warped by the increasingly outmoded neoliberal form of capitalism". Within the peace and justice movement, the author argued that although Muammar al-Gaddafi should be opposed, "it was equally necessary to oppose the NATO intervention" (p. 10). For the author, Nicolas Sarkozy was the champion of the "uprisings" but at the end it has not paid off politically for him. Although colonialism has formally ended some decades ago, France is still considered the gendarme of Europe in Africa.
February 20, 2024
If it weren't bad enough that the U.S. has imposed an illegal embargo against Cuba for over 50 years, it has also tried to prevent those interested in learning about this embargo (more accurately termed a blockade because the U.S. aggressively enforces it against third countries to stop them from trading with the island) from reading Salim Lamrani's new book, The Economic War Against Cuba. Thus, according to Opera Mundi, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Office Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the government agency tasked with enforcing the blockade against Cuba seized the funds a British NGO, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, attempted to wire to purchase 100 copies of this book from Monthly Review Press.
February 20, 2024
Horace Campbell is the author of Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya. Join him for a book talk at Busboys and Poets, the 5th and K Location, in Washington DC.
February 20, 2024
Bruce Neuburger is the author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California. Join him for a talk at Revolution Books in New York City on June 11 at 7pm.
February 20, 2024
Giroux offers a compelling primer for the chaos that neoliberalism has wrought on our youth and education system. Giroux writes with passion that borders on poetic. And, unlike a lot of critical theory, the book is intelligible and easy to read. It would make a welcome addition any OWS-style people's library or intro-level college class.
February 20, 2024
Salim Lamrani is the author of The Economic War Against Cuba. On May 26 he discussed the history, impact, and possible demise of the U.S. imposed economic sanctions against Cuba at Secular Hall in Leicester, UK. The event was a joint meeting of the Leicester Cuba Solidarity Campaign and the Leicester Secular Society and part of a UK speaking tour organized by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign.
February 20, 2024
Join Bruce Neuburger, author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California for three upcoming events in the Bay Area. Ann López, Executive Director of the Center for Farmworker Families, calls Lettuce Wars "compelling and often spell-binding ... surely one of the most important contributions to the social justice literature exposing farmworker injustice at all levels," and will be joining Bruce at one event.
