EXCERPT: How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution
February 20, 2024
"Yes, there would be many painfully restrictive measures. But they would not be imposed by government decree, and they certainly would never be neoliberal...."
Category: The Press
744 endnotes, endless proof of destructive US policies in Venezuela (Extraordinary Threat reviewed in ‘Latin American Politics and Society’)
February 20, 2024
The book's title is somewhat of a mockery of President Obama's 2015 executive order declaring Venezuela an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to US national security....
Markets and tech won’t solve climate emergency… (Foster interviewed for “Truthout”)
February 20, 2024
as many have observed, for many people it’s easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Foster’s book tells us that we have a choice: “ruin or revolution.” The reason for the necessity of revolution is that tinkering won’t solve our problems. Technocratic fixes won’t save the Earth as a place fit for human habitation. The problem, as he told me in the interview that follows, is systemic....
Stabilising the human relation to the earth (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)
February 20, 2024
Geological epochs are divided into ages. So far the Anthropocene has been dominated by a globalised system of capitalist accumulation. Foster proposes the designation Capitalinian for this first geological age of the Anthropocene in the hope that it may be superseded by another; one “stabilizing the human relation to the earth” the Communian, rather than “an end-Anthropocene extinction event resulting in the destruction of civilization and quite possibly humanity itself.”
Facing the Anthropocene reviewed in T-Paine’s Newsletter
February 20, 2024
...in rejecting the possibility of half measures and compromises, Facing the Anthropocene stands with The Value of a Whale as a crucial document in the necessary joining of the environmentalist and anti-capitalist movements and should be compulsory reading.
Watch: Trotsky and France, Haiti, and Lula’s victory (Gerald Horne on the ‘De Facto Podcast’)
February 20, 2024
Dr. Gerald Horne joined episode #3 of the De Facto Podcast to discuss the roots of current events, drawing upon "Confronting Black Jacobins" in relation to the political situation in Haiti and its Revolution, Lula's victory, American intervention, revolts inspired by the Haitian Revolution, the origins of the Dominican Republic...
Excerpt: Difference, Exploitation & Emancipation (Editor of The Dialectics of Dependency, in Decolonizing Then and Now, forthcoming in 2023)
February 20, 2024
Decolonial projects did not simply dwell on a race-first, class-first or even gender-first line of thought which so appeals today. What some might call “identity politics” today was not a dead end for class-based projects of liberation; it was a necessary and generative start to the practice of solidarity and unity....
Stimulating thoughts anew for the cognoscenti (Radek reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)
February 20, 2024
Heym’s own biography helps to explain why he chose Karl Radek as the central character for this historical novel. Like Heym, Radek was a literate and articulate Jew who rubbed authority the wrong way. Born Lolek Sobelsohn in Lemburg (Lviv), then under Austrian rule, Radek, like Heym, was a Marxist who became compromised as Russia went from being a beacon of revolutionary socialism to a Stalinist dictatorship. Radek helped to shape history and was also tested by it....
NEW! Washington’s New Cold War: EXCERPTS
February 20, 2024
How is it that the threat of global thermonuclear war is once again hanging over the globe, three decades after the end of the Cold War and at a time when the risk of irreversible climate change looms on the horizon? What approaches need to be adopted within the peace and environmental movements to counter these interrelated global existential threats? To answer these questions, it is important to address such issues as the nuclear winter controversy, the counterforce doctrine, and the U.S. quest for global nuclear supremacy....
Finding your class bearings in a leftwing universe (Work Work Work reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)
February 20, 2024
After a lifetime of activism, Yates is that rare thing: a defiantly unreconstructed Marxist faithful to self-evident truths whose enthusiasm for prosecuting working-class struggle with every weapon at our disposal is undimmed.