December 2, 2025
The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and... READ MORE
December 1, 2025
Book launch The Critical Theory Workshop was first to launch John Bellamy Foster’s excellent new work. Speakers alongside Foster included Boris Hennig and Paul Schafer, with Jennifer Ponce de León... READ MORE
November 26, 2025
From: Chapter 3 “…As governor of Wisconsin, La Follette sought to defend the interests of the small farmer by pushing for greater regulation of the railroads. He successfully pushed through... READ MORE
November 25, 2025
One of the most impressive things about Steve Cushion is his extremely active approach to engaging the public around the topic of reparations, and using his books as a means of pushing for meaningful change on the ground....
November 24, 2025
Anarchist chronicler of ‘Paraguayan sorrow’ – once known only in radical Latin American circles – is finally being recognized in his adopted country....November 23, 2025
Counterpunch: An interview by Michael Yates with William Costa A year before his departure from Monthly Review Press, editor Michael Yates took some extra time to interview William Costa, the... READ MORENovember 22, 2025
Socialist History: Issue 67, by Dianne Kirby “The cover of part two of Helena Sheehan’s autobiography, Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left, is inspired by Geliy Korzhev’s... READ MOREFebruary 20, 2024
At the end of the postscript, Marini again emphasises the central concept of his work, namely that “dependent economy – and therefore the super-exploitation of labour – appears as a necessary condition of world capitalism” and that therefore “capitalist production, by developing labour’s productive powers, does not eliminate but rather accentuates the greater exploitation of the worker”...
February 20, 2024
"...a woman in Gaza, her family had been bombed out of their home. But she was determined to make bread and she had found a hot plate. She was making these breads. She said you could get killed going to the bakery, you can’t go to the bakery. They're bombing the bakeries. So I'm doing this. Her kids are in the street, sitting under a tarpaulin. And she's making bread. That's a form of heroism, you know?
...I asked them, “Do you ever feel like you should leave?” They replied, 'We stay here. We're not leaving. This is our home.' That's a form of resistance."
February 20, 2024
'The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis' provides the historical insight that I associate with the best accounts of this kind: motives are complex, power a critical variable, timing an unpredictable factor, and rational argument not necessarily a winning strategy...
