Gerald Horne on Democracy Now!: “You Can’t Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment from the History of White Supremacy”
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne
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Isn’t it time you faced … the Anthropocene?
February 20, 2024
Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge. Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis.
New! Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
February 20, 2024
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union also produced a movement away from capitalism—a long transition that continues today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia—and, by extension, the future of socialism itself.
June 14, Brooklyn: Big Farms Make Big Flu Book Launch!
February 20, 2024
Meet Rob Wallace and hear him talk about his new book, Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Big Farms Make Big Flu an “important polemic,” says ResoluteReader
February 20, 2024
The media is a fickle beast, so coverage of potential epidemics of diseases veers between the apocalyptic to nonexistence. As an outbreak occurs we hear about the potential terrifying consequences of the disease, combined with graphic details of the symptoms and frequently pictures of large numbers of dead animals. Rob Wallace‘s new book is an important polemic that argues that we, as a society, should be a lot more concerned about the potential for disease to decimate the human population
Ian Angus introduces us humans to an age we made all by ourselves: the Anthropocene
February 20, 2024
Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, answers questions from London’s Socialist Review on why and how human activity has transformed... READ MORE
May 9, Brooklyn! Hear Bill Fletcher & Chip Berlet on The Rise of the Right in the United States
February 20, 2024
Bill Fletcher (Longtime labor and social justice activist, host of The Global African TV show author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor
and Chip Berlet (Award-winning investigative journalist, author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort will discuss the rise of the right
Coming May 14 & 15 to a flat-screen near you: MRP author Gerald Horne on C-SPAN!
February 20, 2024
Saturday, 14 May, 8:45 PM EDT & Sunday, 15 May, 1:30PM EDT C-SPAN will present a talk by Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian... READ MORE
“Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic”: Jeb Sprague-Silgado on electing the DR’s next President
February 20, 2024
Jeb Sprague-Silgado, is the author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti. His article, “Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite versus the Elite,” appeared in NACLA, May... READ MORE
Henry Giroux, via Truthout: “Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times”
February 20, 2024
Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that matters is about business; poverty is now viewed as a technical problem; thought chases after an emotion that can obliterate it. The presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Donald Trump, declares he likes "the uneducated"—implying that it is better that they stay ignorant than be critically engaged agents—and boasts that he doesn't read books. Fox News offers no apologies for suggesting that thinking is an act of stupidity....