Hitting the mark: “Grand Theft Capital”, by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
November 2, 2026
The latest: Red Pepper's David Matthews picks six of the best new books for leftists...Category: WATCH / LISTEN /
In Amsterdam in November? Join Chris dePloeg, Jason Hickel and more, LIVE, for “The Exterminating Empire”
October 29, 2026
Will you be in Amsterdam on November 23rd? Head to the social center known as Pakuis de Zwijger for a lively and engaging event with Chris dePloeg together with renowned climate author Jason Hickel (in person), frontline Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah (joining online) and moderator, climate justice activist and researcher Harriët Bergman. There will also be cultural performances from Chihiro Geuzebroek and brothers Chris and Max de Ploeg, tying their ancestral struggles in Bolivia and Armenia to the global struggle for liberation.
Unrelenting respect for Braverman’s “Labor and Monopoly Capital”
October 29, 2026
A new in-depth review on Jacobin reminds us of Braverman's immense contributions...
Recently reissued: The Rainbow Challenge (Excerpt)
October 26, 2026
"Jesse Jackson’s first presidential primary race in 1984 should have been a wakeup call for the Democratic Party...."
Aymeric Monville, Jennifer Ponce de León and Gabriel Rockhill, on “Requiem for French Theory”
October 22, 2026
Tonight, Oct 30! "The Compatible Postmodern Left vs. Marxism, October, 2026 tour". Hosted tonight by Daniel Tutt at Busboys and Poets in D.C. (Starting at Philly's Free Library, with a stop in NYC in the CUNY amphiteater...)
In the Public Eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”
September 14, 2026
The latest: The London Review of Books' Letters section features a quote from John Bellamy Foster's introduction....
Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”
September 8, 2026
Featured review: "Severed Universal Metabolism and Predatory Logic: Groundwork for an Ecosocialist Critique of Capitalism" by Varun Wigmal (INSEE Journal); "The bulk of the book is an attempt to explain the core concepts of ecological Marxism and political ecology by detailing the metabolic processes vital to Earth’s systems. In Chapter 10, Angus discusses the carbon cycle’s breakdown—which is driving climate change—and in Chapter 11, he describes how industrial agriculture is pumping nitrogen into Earth’s systems faster than any natural process through fertilizers, disrupting the nitrogen cycle. Angus proposes a radical reduction in the use of nitrogen and chemical fertilizers as a solution to environmental damage, and envisions a time when it will be possible to feed people without them. These chapters are the strength of Angus’ book. They demonstrate how Marxists should use science to understand the complexity of the damage inflicted by capitalism on the Earth’s systems and develop viable solutions based on the idea of hope without optimism, i.e., confronting adversity rather than denying it
Matthew Stanley’s “The Ragged Edge of Freedom”
August 13, 2026
The latest, from Paul Buhle: "Abolitionists and social reformers of all kinds, with a wide Yankee following augmented by many recent German immigrants, sought to take things beyond the uneasy accommodation of white populations to each other across existing political lines. In Wisconsin and in Chicago most notably, these would include “Abe’s Boys” enrolling in the army of the Union. Not so in the Southern Illinois, two hours’ drive from my hometown. The whites who immigrated northward from the near South, largely uneducated and lacking skills, came to be considered almost a species in themselves...."
John Bellamy Foster’s “Breaking the Bonds of Fate”
August 12, 2026
The latest: The title of John Bellamy Foster’s latest book "derives from Lucretius’s famed De Rerum Natura, usually translated as On the Nature of Things. Lucretius wrote: “Again, if all movement is always interconnected, the new arising from the old in a determinate order – if the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will break the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect – what is the source of the free [will] … .” ([On the Nature of Things,] Book II, 251ff) This exact quotation, moreover, was one made by Karl Marx in his Epicurean Notebooks, compiled in preparation for his doctoral thesis: “The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature” of 1841. From this point of departure, Foster initiates the reappraisal of two thousand years of philosophical controversy...."
WATCH: Socialist Register 2026
August 3, 2026
This was the first live launch of the Socialist Register in New York City, with our brand new editor, Arun Kundnani, alongside the (relatively new) coeditor of the Socialist Register, Steve Maher, joined by three contributors to this year’s volume: Ibrahim Shikaki, Costas Lapavitsas, and Paul Heideman. Together they considered these and other questions: