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Contradictions of the contemporary accumulation regime (Socialist Register 2023 reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

February 20, 2024

as Marx showed, while accumulation creates an ever greater mass of means of production, this in itself begins to throw up barriers to the profitable reproduction of such great quantities of capital. This contradiction results in the intensification of competition between capitals over labour, raw materials and markets, not the least consequence of which is imperialist tension and war...

Register: Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023

February 20, 2024

Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito will be a keynote speaker at the Ecosocialism 2023, being organised by Green Left — and supported by LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal — in Naarm/Melbourne over July 1–2.

The undaunted I.F. Stone (The Hidden History of The Korean War reviewed in ‘The Progressive’)

February 20, 2024

To this day, memories of cities flattened by U.S. bombers—a scale of technological devastation almost unthinkable even after the atomic bombs of 1945—resonate among Koreans on both sides of the border.

Hierarchies leveled by solidarity around a shared hatred of fascism (International Brigade Memorial Trust on !Brigadistas!)

February 20, 2024

The simplicity of the story, as well as the excellent historical summary provided in Fraser Ottanelli’s foreword, also make it a useful, accessible introduction to the International Brigades. There is, as the afterword by Paul Buhle suggests, something inherently comic-book-worthy about the anti-fascists who volunteered for Spain. Theirs is a story of ordinary – not invincible – people pushed into performing heroic and terrifying feats of bravery for no gain but the greater good. It is to Ferguson and Timmons’ credit that they really do capture this truth in the book.

For anyone concerned with the fate of the planet (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘International Affairs’)

February 20, 2024

...Foster believes that only a fundamental change in the logic of value addition can completely heal the metabolic rift....

On the Commons and enclosure: A story to be retold (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘Green Left’)

February 20, 2024

Angus’s new book stands out for the refreshing candidness of his worldview, his obvious mastery of the topic and his gift for poignant summary.

Staggering inequality in a “green and pleasant land” (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)

February 20, 2024

Land, animals, wood, forests and space itself was converted into a commodity that could be bought and sold. Fields were engrossed, land was enclosed, commons were privatised. The peasants who lived from the land, were expelled or turned into wage labourers - their old traditions and histories erased.

Beyond “vague notions of environmental stewardship”(Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

February 20, 2024

Foster: "‘If accumulation or economic growth is to be halted in the rich countries, even temporarily, out of ecological necessity, this would require a vast new system of redistribution..."

A dialectic of continuity and discontinuity (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas’)

February 20, 2024

"...the Marxist dependency-and-rift conception of the relation between capitalist societies and the environment is a better gateway to the Anthropocene than widespread social-monistic tendencies..."

Cold War 2.0: The Military-Industrial Complex Survives (Washington’s New Cold War reviewed by ‘The Populist’)

February 20, 2024

What has changed in the old and new Cold Wars is the economic situation of the US with respect to China and the Global South....

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Contradictions of the contemporary accumulation regime (Socialist Register 2023 reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

Register: Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023

The undaunted I.F. Stone (The Hidden History of The Korean War reviewed in ‘The Progressive’)

Hierarchies leveled by solidarity around a shared hatred of fascism (International Brigade Memorial Trust on !Brigadistas!)

For anyone concerned with the fate of the planet (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘International Affairs’)

On the Commons and enclosure: A story to be retold (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘Green Left’)

Staggering inequality in a “green and pleasant land” (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)

Beyond “vague notions of environmental stewardship”(Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

A dialectic of continuity and discontinuity (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas’)

Cold War 2.0: The Military-Industrial Complex Survives (Washington’s New Cold War reviewed by ‘The Populist’)

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