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Delusions of the American Revolution: Science & Society looks at “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism”

Delusions of the American Revolution: Science & Society looks at “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism”

February 20, 2024

In this comprehensive study of the connections among capitalism, slavery and white supremacy, Gerald Horne, the Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and the author of more than 30 scholarly books, takes a deep dive into the 17th century, revealing fallacies in what later ages have said about the earlier ones, showing the slow and steady consolidation of axes of differentiation in the service of capital, and ultimately connecting the choice in 2016 of “a vulgar billionaire” with the cross-class coalition that originated in the colonial settlements of the New World....

U.S. racism: hysteria for which jazz sought a cure–Race & Class reviews Gerald Horne’s “Jazz and Justice”

U.S. racism: hysteria for which jazz sought a cure–Race & Class reviews Gerald Horne’s “Jazz and Justice”

February 20, 2024

Viewed, it would seem, from every possible angle, jazz seems to be a topic about which there is little left to say. But no one has quite seen it in the lurid, smoky light of the jazz demimonde – a world of pimps, gangsters, strung out divas, knife-wielding trumpeters, Bolshevik pianists and impresarios in white hoods. The author’s research is breathtaking. To read the book is to be barraged with anecdotes, quotations, statistical asides and mini-histories that are often no more than a paragraph long....

COVID-19 Does Discriminate: Gerald Horne discusses how the virus “rips the mask off US society”

COVID-19 Does Discriminate: Gerald Horne discusses how the virus “rips the mask off US society”

February 20, 2024

Allen Ruff, host of A Public Affair, from community radio station WORT in Madison, Wisconsin, talks to Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and prolific author—whose book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, is forthcoming this July. In their conversation, Horne explores the assertion that the arrival of COVID-19 has exposed inequities in our social system and continues to act as a catalyst for deep and simmering social and economic crises—all worsened by the current political system....

Inspiring resistance in County Mayo: Counterfire reviews “Shamrocks and Oil Slicks” and

Inspiring resistance in County Mayo: Counterfire reviews “Shamrocks and Oil Slicks” and

February 20, 2024

Fred Wilcox tells the story of peaceful resistance met by cruel violence, over a period of fifteen years, by a people whose love for their families and communities, the sea, their rivers, lakes and bogs, pitted them against Shell Oil -one of the world’s most destructive predators. Through their struggle, they have also shown us a way of resisting the powerful corporate/government interlock which threatens communities with destruction of the environment and their way of life....

New York City Monthly Review Office Closure

February 20, 2024

The Monthly Review office in New York City is presently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this period, we ask that you please email our office rather than call, if at all possible. Voice mail will be answered as we are able.

Clarity of ideas and political method: Resolute Reader looks at “The Robbery of Nature”

Clarity of ideas and political method: Resolute Reader looks at “The Robbery of Nature”

February 20, 2024

Over the last few decades John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark have been at the forefront of showing how classical Marxism is the foremost tool in explaining capitalism's rift with the ecological systems that support our society. They have shown how Karl Marx's idea of the ‘metabolic rift’ explains how capitalism is a break with other historical modes of production, a break that has transformed our relationship to the natural world and then broken the ongoing metabolism between humans and the planet. Reading this book while trapped at home during the Covid-19 pandemic it is very easy to see the practical application of Marx's metabolic rift theory....

Zillah Eisenstein offers up “A Manifesto of Sorts for COVID-19”

Zillah Eisenstein offers up “A Manifesto of Sorts for COVID-19”

February 20, 2024

COVID-19 like most disease is democratic—it can affect anyone, although with differing options to respond to it. The world, including the US, is not democratic. This does not bode well. But we can move forward because simple individualism contradicts the interdependency of this COVID crisis. ‘We’ all suffer when one person circulates with symptoms—and we will flourish if we accept responsibility to isolate/distance and protect one another....

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