The latest: "...I was among those who criticized the Soviet system in its post-Stalin decades, and the lesson learned was that the greatest losers were the peripheral countries, especially the Arab nation, since the Soviets had long acted as a force restraining the imperialist beast. More importantly, this collapse was, in historical-materialist terms, a setback—an exception—because history fundamentally advances upward. Though our wounds were deep, the class enemy emerged victorious but also wounded, most notably by becoming the sole superpower, exposing its flaws and unleashing its brutality. In this brief context, I attempt to summarize Gabriel Rockhill’s book—a painstaking and rigorously documented scholarly work. Yet its timing is no less important than the work itself, for it constitutes a bold revolutionary confrontation that demonstrates the author’s profound communist commitment in an era when loyalty to communism has become rare and the fungi of internalized defeat have spread everywhere, filling the burrows with fleeing rats...."

The latest: Einstein's perspective links alienation and nuclear annihilation, capitalism to the devastating possibility of omnicide -- the destruction of all human life on earth. As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary and in the same year, the current US President respectively imprisons and kills the heads of Venezuela and Iran in a clear attempt to control access to their oil supplies, we already find ourselves mired in another imperialist war in the Middle East that is very likely to veer towards World War III....

June 29th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.

June 27th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.