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Gerald Horne on Jamaican Radio recounts the apocalyptic loss and misery behind settler colonialism

Gerald Horne on Jamaican Radio recounts the apocalyptic loss and misery behind settler colonialism

Recently, Gerald Horne, renowned historian and prolific author, talked with Ka’Bu Maat Kheru, host of “The Africa Forum: Running African” about his book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. They begin by discussing the importance of Jamaica in colonial history.

Why the working class counts: LA Progressive reviews Michael Yates’s new book

Why the working class counts: LA Progressive reviews Michael Yates’s new book

Radical economist Michael Yates grew up in a western Pennsylvania manufacturing town, later hard hit by de-industrialization. He spent more than three decades working as a college professor in his home state. Despite his career in academia and editorial role at Monthly Review, a seventy-year old project of socialist intellectuals, Yates never lost touch with the life experience of high school classmates, friends, neighbors, and relatives who toiled in blue collar jobs….

“Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism” Wins Deutscher Memorial Prize 2018

“Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism” Wins Deutscher Memorial Prize 2018

Named for the historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara, this prize is awarded each year for a book demonstrating “the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition.” Previous prize winners include Mike Davis, Robin Blackburn, Ellen Mieksins Wood, Eric Hobsbawm, and Monthly Review Press authors Michael A. Lebowitz, Tamás Krausz, Lucio Colleti, and István Mészáros.

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New! The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940

New! The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940

Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany’s Third Reich or Italy’s National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as linked to the essence of monopoly-finance capitalism, operating under the guise of American free enterprise. But, as Michael Joseph Roberto argues, this is exactly where fascism’s embryonic forms began gestating in the United States, during the so-called prosperous 1920s and the Great Depression of the following decade. This book is a necessity for anyone who fears America tipping ever closer, in this era of Trump, to full-blown fascism...