“Mapping Water in Dominica” (Horne reviews Mark W. Hauser for H-Net)
February 20, 2024
...examining shards of slave property, waterways, mills, and vessels for storing water....
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Opinion: From crisis to catastrophe (Horne on Ukraine, in ‘Black Agenda Report’)
February 20, 2024
With Germany pledging to re-arm, we also witness the shortsightedness of world imperialism, which refuses to learn the lessons of the 20th century, especially the catastrophe of world war ending with the uncovering of industrial funeral pyres in 1945. Not only Washington but London, Brussels and Paris should be shuddering right now....
WATCH MR Classics: Nkrumah’s ‘Consciencism,’ with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown (Plus excerpts)
February 20, 2024
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled "MR Classics," starting with Kwame Nkrumah's thought, the philosophy he called 'Consciencism." We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire.
“A sweeping tale” of state formation, punishment regimes, and the landscape of work in the United States (“The Punishment Monopoly” reviewed by Society for the Anthropology of Work)
February 20, 2024
"The Punishment Monopoly" explores the function of land as a means of production and site for the social construction of power, paying attention to the racial and gendered dimensions of land ownership and the authority it confers to punish nonelites.
WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: PANDEMIC POLARIZATIONS (Plus excerpts from the Socialist Register 2022)
February 20, 2024
With contributions from: Walden Bello, Bill Fletcher Jr., Virginia Fontes, Samir Gandesha, Ana Garcia, Jayati Ghosh, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, Sam Gindin, David Harvey, Rejane Hoeveler, Ilya Matveev, Simon Mohun, Adolph Reed Jr. and Touré F. Reed, Vishwas Satgar, James Schneider, Ingar Solty, Samir Sonti, Hilary Wainwright, and Oleg Zhuravlev....
“In Seattle, for a time, they did things differently…” (HISR reviews Cal Winslow)
February 20, 2024
Winslow studied at Warwick University under E. P. Thompson, the undisputed pioneer in this approach, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In his Introduction he cites another founder of the new labor history, Herbert Gutman, to the effect that ‘Studying a single event cannot answer the basic questions, not even the general strike ... We need the background, of the discontent of working people in the Pacific Northwest as well as of the Seattle social and economic structure.’ This Winslow provides in considerable detail...
And as always, the Dems demobilize (Counterpunch discusses “A Left Green New Deal”)
February 20, 2024
Just two years ago, the sky was the limit for progressives: Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and a Sanders’ candidacy for president. There was serious talk of forgiving student debt, of free community college, paid parental leave, finally lowering the costs of essential medicines and more. Now, the best progressives can muster is primarying the treacherous, corporate, bought-and-paid for Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema. What a difference a couple of years make! This was all entirely predictable. The Democratic party has mainly functioned since the 1930s to demobilize left movements, and these latest weren’t even movements...
Watch: Tigar and Higginbotham on “Pursuing Justice” (The Center for American and International Law)
February 20, 2024
Higginbotham and Tigar explored various issues connected to the Rule of Law including the essential need for professionalism in the legal vocation, the challenge of representing unpopular clients, and the vital role of lawyers in civil society...
Watch! Like “the two Ivans:” On Lefebvre and Althusser (The Marxist Education Project hosts Andy Merrifield )
February 20, 2024
Were the original rifts within the French left in Henri Lefebvre's and Louis Althusser's time, so genuine and lasting that these two figures could not themselves have overcome them?
Pooling resources and risk, we’re “stronger together” (Author of “The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans” interviewed for “Northwest Labor Press” and My Labor Radio)
February 20, 2024
It involves a lot of math. And people are averse to math. And it involves thinking about something that’s unpleasant— getting old. So people are kind of in denial. They just sort of let it ride. Let it go. Let it go....