Steve Early on Book Tour
February 20, 2024
author of Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Homeand The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor, forthcoming from Haymarket Books, is on book tour.
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James Cockcroft on Book Tour
February 20, 2024
James D. Cockcroft, the author of Mexico's Revolution Then and Now and Mexico's Hope, is currently on book tour.
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Progressive Populist review of Agriculture and Food in Crisis
February 20, 2024
A chilling trend stalks humanity: the price of food. It's climbing now as it did in 2008. How and why is this nightmare back?… Let's, briefly, look back to three years ago. "Prices for basic foodstuffs doubled or tripled in a short period, and food riots spread beyond Mexico to many countries in the global South," write Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar, co-editors of Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press, November 2010).
Links review of The Ecological Rift
February 20, 2024
Climate change is often called the greatest environment threat facing humanity. The threat is very real. Unless we cut carbon pollution fast, runaway climate change will worsen existing environmental and social problems, and create new ones of its own. But it's no longer enough to simply refer to the climate crisis. Climate change is one part of a broader ecological disaster, brought about by an economic system that relies on constant growth, endless accumulation, and ever-deepening human alienation.
New additions to MR Press Classics series
February 20, 2024
Check out these classic titles by Lucio Colletti, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Karl Korsch, Gordon K. Lewis, Nikolai Bukharin, and Ernest Mandel, available now!
NEW: The People's Lawyer by Albert Ruben
February 20, 2024
Just released! There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending the rights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Center for Constitutional Rights has not played a central role. Whether defending the rights of black people in the South, opponents of the war in Vietnam, and victims of torture worldwide, or fighting illegal actions of the U.S. government, the CCR has stood ready to take on all comers, regardless of their power and wealth. When the United States declared that the Constitution did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, the CCR waded fearlessly into battle, its Legal Director declaring that "My job is to defend the Constitution from its enemies. Its main enemies right now are the Justice Department and the White House."
The Socialist Alternative reviewed in Third Rail magazine
February 20, 2024
Michael A. Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, begins his new book, The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, by paraphrasing Marx, "A specter is haunting the world – the specter of barbarism." The barbarism Prof. Lebowitz speaks of is, of course, the yoke of capitalism and depths that it sinks people into in order to satisfy its insatiable greed. The point of this book is to put forth an argument for the necessity of Socialism in the twenty-first century, and the need to focus on human development. Actual human development, not the all consuming hunger of false needs and consumerism that capitalism thrives on and denies the work force.
Open Veins of Latin America video discussion
February 20, 2024
From PressTV, Ken Livingstone, Alan Knight, and Javier Farje discuss Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano