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There’s a lot to tell: Irish Echo on Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

There’s a lot to tell: Irish Echo on Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

"We talked long into the night calling into question everything we had been brought up to believe....One night, it was all cozy and almost comfortable when I was in a pub with Billy and Seamus drinking, talking, and laughing for several hours. I would think back on it later with a strong sense of pathos, in light of what happened later, in light of how they both died. On that night, however, we were comrades and all seemed well," says Helena Sheehan in a recent interview with The Irish Echo...

The disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities (Watch: Science for the People)

The disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities (Watch: Science for the People)

On the first Friday in March, SftP member Joseph Graves Jr. interviewed Rob Wallace about his work Dead Epidemiologists. Grave's expertise in epidemiology and the disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities steered the conversation as Wallace offered his take on the relationship between industrial agriculture, capitalist modes of production and the Covid-19 crisis.

1919 Direct Power: Journal of Working Class Studies reviews “Radical Seattle”

1919 Direct Power: Journal of Working Class Studies reviews “Radical Seattle”

Since the Covid-19 pandemic pummeled the economy, millions of workers have been displaced, while others continue to work amid increasingly harsh, often hazardous working conditions. With Covid forcing millions to choose between a paycheck and their health, some labor activists have hoped for a wave of wildcat strikes, and in the wake of the election, perhaps even a ‘general strike’ if Trump refused to concede....

SR 2021: Ursula Huws on “Reaping the Whirlwind,” via Marxist Education Project

SR 2021: Ursula Huws on “Reaping the Whirlwind,” via Marxist Education Project

Sunday, January 31 @ 1:30pm-4:00pm: Join this online reading group and discussion of the most recent issue of Socialist Register dedicated to Leo Panitch. This first session begins with Ursula Huws' essay, "Reaping the Whirlwind: Digitalization, Restructuring, and Mobilization in the Covid Crisis." This work addresses the changes currently sweeping through global labor markets during the coronavirus pandemic....

Engels on Ecology: Against the Grain talks to John Bellamy Foster

Engels on Ecology: Against the Grain talks to John Bellamy Foster

C. S. Soong, host of Against the Grain (KPFA/94.1 FM) talks with John Bellamy Foster, author, most recently, of The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. To what extent did Frederick Engels engage with environmental and ecological issues? When Engels wrote about the dialectics of nature, what did he mean by “dialectics”? According to Foster, Engels’s insights into ecology, dialectics, and the environmental conditions of the working class were, and remain, critically important...