February 20, 2024
Howard Watizkin, author, with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, spoke about his life and his work, December 4, at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine Colloquia Series...
February 20, 2024
Over the past year, the Trump administration’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educational program garnered $300 million in pledges from big tech companies. Implicit in this push is the commonly accepted though questionable notion that millions of cutting-edge STEM jobs await US workers...
February 20, 2024
There is much discussion on the left about the connections and relative importance of class, race, gender, and the environment. Some, like political scientist Adolph Reed, take a class-first approach and criticize those who place an emphasis on race and gender as engaging in an identity politics that often shades into support for the neoliberalism that has wreaked havoc on working people for the past several decades....
February 20, 2024
Last August, the world lost a great Marxist theorist, Samir Amin. Amin was politically engaged throughout his life, worked in planning agencies in Mali and Senegal, and contributed to the theoretical elaboration of Marxist theory. Amin published dozens of books that cover a wide range of topics, including, amongst other topics...
February 20, 2024
Howard Waitzkin, author — along with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism — of "Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health," will speak on the U.S. health-care system, and how it could rescued and made an integral part of a new and radically different society.
February 20, 2024
In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates wonders if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class. If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences.
February 20, 2024
Since working-class voters have been made responsible for everything from Brexit to the rise of the far right across Europe to Trump in office, the left has rediscovered class. Among the many contributions made to relevant debates in the past two years, some have been very good, some very bad, and many very confused. This text is about one of the best….
February 20, 2024
As the world burned this summer, as millions starve or go short of food around the globe, and as the quality of life for the majority of the population in the western countries tumbles and staggers, asking how we can change things for the better becomes an increasingly critical question....
February 20, 2024
The world is awash in the blood of innocents. Nothing makes this clearer than Gerald Horne’s recently published The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, which puts the genocide of indigenous Americans at about 90 percent of their population’s total.
February 20, 2024
On September 18, at the Mumbai Press Club in Mumbai, India, some of Bernard D’Mello’s friends gathered to help launch D’Mello’s book, India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History. Watch this panel discussion, moderated by journalist Stephen Rego, of the ongoing issues surrounding India and the Naxalite movement. The panelists are Manoranjan Mohanty, author and Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi; John Mage, international lawyer and member of the Monthly Review Foundation’s board of directors; and, of course, author and journalist, Bernard D’Mello.
