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An Important Message from John Bellamy Foster

February 20, 2024

In the 1990s, high tech firms and their mainstream media boosters proclaimed that the Internet and digital technology would unleash a new era that would destroy monopolies, liberate democratic impulses, and usher in what Bill Gates called “frictionless capitalism.” From the first, Monthly Review’s assessment was different. We foresaw instead the ways that the communications revolution would generate monopoly power on a scale never seen before.

“The Delusion of Deporting the Country’s Troubles Away by Banishing ‘Criminal Aliens’”: David L. Wilson via Truthout

February 20, 2024

David L. Wilson, with Jane Guskin, is the author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (2nd Edition). In his latest article for Truthout, Wilson asks, “Is there really any reason for the US government to deport non-citizens with criminal records?”

New! Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures

February 20, 2024

Just out! Gerald Coles’s Miseducating for the Global Economy provides a real education about the twenty-first-century global economy—and what corporations are doing to prevent our learning about it.

H-Net reviews James Young’s Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania

February 20, 2024

The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America—the unwieldy name is usually shortened to United Electrical Workers, or UE—occupies a significant niche in the history of the American labor movement....

Warehouse Clearance Sale!

February 20, 2024

Unfortunately the warehouse clearance sale has ended.

The Progressive Populist reviews The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

Colonies and the political economy are two sides of the same coin. In The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, historian Gerald Horne reveals the actors and factors behind the origin of a racial capitalism that haunts us now. ¶ It is no easy task, but Horne is up to it….

July 7: Howard Waitzkin comes to Beloit, WI to talk about Health Care Under the Knife

February 20, 2024

Howard Waitzkin, author, with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, will be in Beloit, Wisconsin Saturday, July 7 to discuss the U.S. health-care crisis — how we can rescue it and make it an integral part of a new and radically different society

“A powerful package of ideas in highly readable form” — Paul Buhle reviews The Russians Are Coming, Again

February 20, 2024

These days we see a seemingly odd project taking place in the realms of American liberalism: ferocious insistence that the truly outrageous Donald J. Trump is at his worst when….making peace with our enemies! Has he been brainwashed by Russian and/or North Korean agents, perhaps? Or is this all, perhaps, a crude plan to place Trump Steaks in Trump hotels in heretofore unbidden locations? What kind of madness would lessen the threat of American nukes that keeps us all as safe as we may reasonably hope to be?...

Why and How the First Socialist State Evolved: Science & Society on Reconstructing Lenin

February 20, 2024

Since the collapse of Eastern European “socialism” and the Soviet Union, the prospect to transcend capitalism has been lost in obscurity. ¶ However, what happened once can happen again, and “since the ‘end of history’ did not occur in 1989, one need not be a prophet to foresee that the need for the revolutionary salvation of the world will arise again” ...

Tumultuous Rapids: Countercurrents.org reviews Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

February 20, 2024

History…is not a peacefully flowing river, but made up of different moments, separated by tumultuous rapids’ (134). When the USSR broke apart in 1991, an unprecedented ideological campaign was launched, propagating the idea that Soviet collapse implied the collapse of the socialist project as a whole. The ‘end of history’ was said to be at hand. ¶ Amin’s critical reading of Russian history de-bunks this myth, with the compact prose and theoretical precision that is characteristic of Amin’s many writings...