February 20, 2024
If you’re living in a settler-colonialist society–which is virtually all of the Americas–the seeds of fascism have been implanted because of the violent uprooting of the Indigenous population that helps to create a culture of mega-violence… They really drank the kool-aid with regard this idea of the United States being this democracy with a sturdy constitution…
February 20, 2024
Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left offers a program called the "Lost Futures Series." In the latest podcast, Comrade Adam (a.k.a. Chairman Bane) joins podrades Remi and Niko from Cosmonaut's Ecology Cast series to discuss Kohei Saito's Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. Included in the conversation: the concept of metabolism, Marx's evolution of thought on ecology being the core realm of capitalist crisis, agricultural chemistry, the role of a Marxist ecosocialist perspective to stop the destruction of capital across the planet, and more...
February 20, 2024
The Seattle General Strike lasted only five days, but people have been fighting over what it means for a hundred years. Cal Winslow raises this discussion to a new level. Sticking close to the workers themselves, he shows us why the strike matters....
February 20, 2024
"If you want to understand why Black Lives don't Matter under the current system, look to the events of five hundred years ago," says historian and University of Houston African American Studies professor, Gerald Horne. Drawing from his most recent book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, Dr. Horne speaks with Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report about these five hundred years--and their impact on our lives today...
February 20, 2024
Magro: The 1619 Project—and much of your work—puts settler colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy at the center of the unfolding history of the United States. It seems straightforward, so how do we account for resistance to the Project among some historians?
Horne: The 1619 Project stirred controversy in part because it unsettled the widely accepted “creation myth” of the founding of the United States.
February 20, 2024
Mimi Rosenberg, host of Equal Rights and Justice, broadcasting from WBAI in New York City, talks with historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, about our need to acquire a detailed understanding of the past in order to comprehend a present--which includes "the oaf in the Oval Office"...
February 20, 2024
Walter Smolarek, host of Loud & Clear, via Radio Sputnik, is joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. Dr. Horne discusses the RNC and the unfolding crisis in Kenosha...
February 20, 2024
In December of 1997 I was hired by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to become their first Director of Organizing. At its International Convention in Hawaii in June of that same year the union had decided to dedicate 30% of its revenue to organizing and build out a department.... When we got to the dock in West Seattle, I stepped off the launch, lost my footing and fell halfway into the drink. Great start for an Organizing Director! ¶ Cal Winslow’s important book Radical Seattle reintroduces me to the region through the lens of the history of one of labor’s great moments, the Seattle General Strike of 1919....
February 20, 2024
With Covid-19 roaring through the U.S., now is a good time to discuss Cuban health care. It’s about as different from the American variety as possible. It is not for profit. It is socialized. It does not first resort to expensive medical technology. Its doctors live among the people, like in Haiti after the earthquake, not in luxury hotels, like American doctors. It does not rely on the thinking that there is a pill for every ailment. It is successful. Cuba has suffered 88 deaths from covid, and the 3408 infected people have not gone bankrupt receiving care...
February 20, 2024
Furnishing the Marxian critique of capitalism with contemporary examples drawn from not only the US experience, but the global condition and struggles of the working-class, Yates provides a compelling argument for why the answer is affirmative. Not only can the working class change the world; it must–‘there really is no choice’. This book puts paid to any suggestion that such sentiments are utopian….
