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“The ruling class is in over its head”: Gerald Horne on CPR News

February 20, 2024

Brought to you by the A-Infos Radio Project: Gerald Horne, author of 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, talked, on September 4, to Community Public Radio’s Don DeBar about the G-20, the Alt-Right, Brexit, the US Presidential election, globalization, and just about everything else.

John Smith talks about 21st-Century Imperialism

February 20, 2024

John Smith, author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis, talks to Daphna Whitmore of the online publication, Redline: Contemporary Marxist Analysis

Alan Wieder goes to Chicago, talks to WGN Radio’s Rick Kogan, will appear at Hull House

February 20, 2024

MRP author Alan Wieder talks about his book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation with Rick Kogan, host of “After Hours” on Chicago radio station WGN.
And if you’re in Chicago, come hear Alan at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Tuesday Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00PM for his book release!

anarkismo.net reviews The Necessity of Social Control

February 20, 2024

“István Mészáros, a well-known Marxist theorist, has material which can be interesting to anarchists. He has an insightful analysis of the current stage of capitalism and the state. He makes Marx’s ‘withering away of the state’ central to his program, and he rejects electoral party politics. But paradoxically, he also supports the late Hugo Chavez’s attempted use of the Venezuelan state to move to socialism. How can we understand this and respond to it?…”

Wall Street’s Think Tank: Why “the ruling class can never be passive” — via Counterfire

February 20, 2024

Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014 400 pp, $34 cloth, ISBN 9781583675519 By Laurence H. Shoup Reviewed by Dominic Alexander... READ MORE

New! The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? by John Marciano

February 20, 2024

On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years—through November 11, 2025—commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 3 million Vietnamese—soldiers, parents, grandparents, children—also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated.

Reconstructing Lenin reviewed in Links

February 20, 2024

With the end of the Cold War and the victory of capitalism, and the seeming defeat of “Marxism-Leninism” in 1991, it appeared we could at last bury Lenin. And certainly, who will mourn for the death of a Lenin encased in granite monuments with his words turned into a dogmatic religion to legitimise the Eastern Bloc regimes? ¶ However, there is another Lenin who remains very much alive. This Lenin has been unearthed in recent years with the “Lenin renaissance”. Different scholars and political activists such as Lars Lih, Paul Le Blanc, Slavoj Zizek, Kevin Anderson, to name just a few, have explored what remains very much alive in Lenin…. ¶ Now, to this distinguished list, we can add the name of Tamás Krausz with the release of his magnificent book…