February 20, 2024
On Saturday, May 7th John Bellamy Foster will present on the ecology section of "The Marx Revival" (Cambridge University Press), alongside Marcelo Musto, who will present the Communism section of the book. The event is co-sponsored by the Marxist Education Project and Shelter and Solidarity.
February 20, 2024
During the Red Scare, a telling phrase came to describe some who had been clamoring for more demonstrative anti-Hitler manifestations before the U.S. entered the war in late 1941: “premature antifascists.” Outside a narrow wartime period, antifascist convictions were now seen from a postwar vantage as suspect, evidence of Communist loyalty. Now forgotten is that there was an offshoot of this tendency: one whose adherents we might call “premature antiracists”....
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne discusses the drive behind Pan-Afrikanism, the "poverty-stricken" discourse on class in the United States, his hopefulness about younger black radical scholars and activist-organizers, and, as is always the case with Dr. Horne, much, much more....
February 20, 2024
By the time his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, was published in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois was already a rara avis—a prominent Black activist-intellectual in the midst of Jim Crow. Dapper... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
'Socialist Register 2022' delivers thought-provoking analysis of the factors and forces driving multiple polarizations in our world, including identities of nation and race, social class and political parties, the coronavirus pandemic and climate catastrophe. That is a partial list.
February 20, 2024
Ingar Solty, Bill Fletcher Jr., Samir Gandesha, Simon Mohun and Samir Sonti present articles from the 2022 edition of Socialist Register, on Trump and right-wing populism, the politics of false concreteness, market polarization, and political polarization...
February 20, 2024
The widespread shortfall in retirement income is the result of a bipartisan effort going back decades to move our savings away from traditional pensions to accounts like 401(k)s that enrich the financial services industry at our expense.
February 20, 2024
March is the month to dig in to Mészáros. Join "Essential Discussions" with Irv Kurki, or The Marxist Education Project's "Capital Studies Group" respectively focusing on 'Beyond Leviathan' and 'The Necessity of Social Control.'
February 20, 2024
...examining shards of slave property, waterways, mills, and vessels for storing water....
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....
