New! ‘Work Work Work’ by Michael Yates (EXCERPTS)
“Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation and Class Struggle,” by Michael Yates, new, from Monthly Review Press! Read for excerpts from the introduction and first chapter… | more…
Listen: A book to refer to for years to come (“The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans” reviewed by ‘The People’s Voice’)
Labour organizers have every interest in getting wise to how pensions work and making sure they can transmit this information to the membership in a way that steels them for the fights ahead. This will undoubtedly be a book they refer to for years to come as the capitalist crisis increases | more…
James Boggs’ “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Workers Notebook” (Black Agenda Report excerpts Chapter 6)
It is always a good time to revisit the writing of Detroit auto worker, activist, and author James Boggs . But as the diplomatic debacle of the Summit of the Americas unfolds in Los Angeles, his work seems especially relevant…. | more…
From the hard right and the political parties of Capital, to the crisis of centrism (Marxist Education Project features ‘Socialist Register’ 2022)
Ingar Solty, Bill Fletcher Jr., Samir Gandesha, Simon Mohun and Samir Sonti present articles from the 2022 edition of Socialist Register, on Trump and right-wing populism, the politics of false concreteness, market polarization, and political polarization… | more…
The poisonous fruits of white supremacy: The rise of the right (Horne, on the De Facto Podcast)
On the recent shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the coup of January 6, 2021, the legacy of US and French colonialism in Haiti, China’s Belt and Road initiatives, and…. | more…
NEW! “Radek: A Novel,” by Stefan Heym (EXCERPTS)
…Stalin asked, “So you think my truth needs improvement?”
“The truth,” Radek replied, “can’t be improved. The truth is true, or it is not. But a line of evidence can gain a great deal by new and better evidence…” | more…
WATCH MR Classics: Nkrumah’s ‘Consciencism,’ with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown (Plus excerpts)
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled “MR Classics,” starting with Kwame Nkrumah’s thought, the philosophy he called ‘Consciencism.” We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire. | more…
Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)
Says Horne: The New York Times series, “The Ransom,” will “hopefully cause us to reexamine the history of this country and move away from the propaganda point that somehow the United States was an abolitionist republic when actually it was the foremost slaveholder’s republic….” | more…
Recovering the collective will behind those gripping strikes (“Radical Seattle” reviewed by ‘Socialist History’)
A minority undoubtedly were striking because they thought ‘The Revolution’ was about to arrive but for many, it was essentially a show of solidarity. While many valid criticisms may be made regarding the failed tactics or shortcomings of the strike; most of these are based on the gift of hindsight… | more…
Social sources of political polarization in Russia (Socialist Register 2022 on Leftstreamed)
Until recently Putin was able to rely on the apathetic indifference of the people and general appeals to social stability to maintain unchallenged power…. | more…
Marxist ecology after Marx (‘The Return of Nature’ reviewed in ‘Critical Sociology’)
In Foster’s own words, ‘what we must dethrone today is the idol of capital itself, the concentrated power of class-based avarice, which now imperils the ecology of the earth’. This reaffirms the importance of the fusion of red and green. In effect, this fusion is a revival of the historical tradition started more than a century ago by socialist materialists such as Marx, Engels, Lankester, and Morris to combine socialism and ecology… | more…