February 20, 2024
“On August 29 of this year the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) recommended to the International Geological Congress (IGC) that the ‘Anthropocene’ - the epoch when human activity has had a significant impact on the ecosystem - should have formal recognition. Ian Angus’s book is therefore highly relevant - the AWG hopes that recognition will be forthcoming at the next IGC, which will take place in Delhi in 2020....”
February 20, 2024
This book underscores the depth of the environmental crisis and, with its thorough grounding in the scientific literature, situates the onset of the crisis in geological as well as historical time. These two time-scales now converge, signifying the end of the ecological conditions that allowed the human species to flourish. ¶ Herein lies the drama—and, with it, the challenge—that we are now living....
February 20, 2024
Wednesday, September 28 at The Workmen's Circle, 247 W. 37th Street, 6-8:00pm
Thursday, September 29 at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, 7-9:30pm
February 20, 2024
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory
By Steve Cushion
Cuba and the U.S. Empire: A Chronological History
By Jane Franklin
The last year and a half have left no doubt that the history of the Cuban Revolution will need to be revisited and probably rewritten. From the moment that Raúl Castro and Barack Obama met, and the American president visited the island, everything changed.
February 20, 2024
Recently, MRP author Alan Wieder talked to longtime radio host Marc Steiner of WEAA 88.9 FM about his new book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
February 20, 2024
The significance of John Smith’s book lies in his powerful critique of mainstream economics and official statistics as he attempts a renewal of dependency theory. Mobilising Marxist value theory to this end he argues that the Global South’s formal independence masks an abiding economic and political subordination to the imperialist powers and powerful Northern capitals. The book’s impact is reflected in the critical commentary that it has provoked, including on Michael Roberts’s blog.
February 20, 2024
Recently, Nancy Stout, author of One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution, was interviewed for an article in the Smithsonian magazine, titled, “How Cuba Remembers Its Revolutionary Past and Present”
February 20, 2024
This book is the best I have seen, from a Marxist point of view, on the issue of the Anthropocene and its implications for life on this planet. It combines a clear warning of the scale of the crisis we face with a well informed exposition of what the Anthropocene is and why we need to take it seriously. ¶ It is an unequivocal declaration the Anthropocene is here, at that its implications, in terms life on this planet, including our own, are dangerous in the extreme, and that it now determines the framework in which the struggle to save the biosphere of the planet as a habitable space now takes place.
February 20, 2024
Alan Wieder, author of Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation, talks with Wallace Chapman on Radio New Zealand‘s weekly show, “Sunday Morning”
“Wieder says that wherever Terkel was, he believed people had something to say.
Terkel captured Chicago’s racism in the ’70s through an interview with a policeman for his book Working: People who talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do…”
February 20, 2024
On October 2, Gerald Horne, author of several books, including Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow, sat down with Peter Slen on C-SPAN‘s “In Depth” to discuss his work and the history of the United States
