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“Washington Bullets” offers hope: People’s World on Vijay Prashad’s new book

“Washington Bullets” offers hope: People’s World on Vijay Prashad’s new book

February 20, 2024

The 20th century saw a wave of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, national liberation movements transform the world, often with the aid of Soviet, Eastern European, and Cuban Communists. Just as often, these revolts against the old world–the racist, sexist world of subjugation and oppression of entire peoples–were violently suppressed.... Unfortunately, historically, inevitably right-wing opposition takes the shape of bullets–bullets emanating from Washington!...

The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu, author of “From Commune to Capitalism”

The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu, author of “From Commune to Capitalism”

February 20, 2024

Matt and Christian, hosts of Cosmonaut, join Zhun Xu, author of From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty for a discussion on China’s communes from their construction to their dismantling. They contextualize land reform globally, elaborate on how the Chinese land reform process looked different from the Soviet one, discuss how the communes looked and functioned, and what services they provided as well as their achievements and their points of failure....

Tracing the History of Black Gun Ownership in the U.S.: Gerald Horne on The Takeaway

Tracing the History of Black Gun Ownership in the U.S.: Gerald Horne on The Takeaway

February 20, 2024

While the face of the gun rights movement tends to be white conservatives, Black Americans are also contributing to the recent gun industry boom. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, gun sales by Black men and women rose 58 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to the first half of 2019. The choice that some Black Americans are making to arm themselves in self defense is just one part of a long, complicated chapter in U.S. history. Gerald Horne, a professor of history and African American studies at the University of Houston and author of The Bittersweet Science, joined Tanzania Vega on The Takeaway to discuss.

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”

February 20, 2024

"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)

February 20, 2024

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”

February 20, 2024

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....

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