LIVE IN PARIS! “Requiem for French Theory”
July 21, 2026
JULY 27: LIVE IN PARIS! In Week Two of The Critical Theory Workshop Summer School 2026, Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill will focus on the Preface to the book...Monthly Review Press
In the public eye: Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”
July 10, 2026
The latest, in Le Monde: "En 1999, une historienne britannique, Frances Stonor Saunders, a décrit dans Who Paid the Piper? CIAand the Cultural Cold War ( Qui mène la danse ? La CIA et la guerre froide culturelle , Denoël, 2003) comment la CIA infiltrait la culture des années 1950 et 1960 par l’entremise de fondations commeFord ou Rockefeller. Gabriel Rockhill prolonge cette enquête en montrant comment les Etats-Unis ontutilisé ces mêmes canaux pour influencer les théoriciens de gauche – notamment ceux de l’école deFrancfort – afin de rendre leurs idées compatibles avec le capitalisme...."
In the public eye: Steve Cushion’s “Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World”
July 8, 2026
The latest: "Guyana Institute of Historical Research Nineteenth Conference 2026: There is a public park in the North London borough of Brent named after Sir William Gladstone, the former Liberal Prime Minister, who had spent many years using Dollis Hill House as his weekend retreat...."
In the public eye: John Bellamy Foster’s “Breaking the Bonds of Fate”
July 3, 2026
The latest: "Epicurus set up schools, first in Lampsacus (in modern day Turkey), then later in Athens. Other philosophical schools in the city used public space for lectures and attracted young, well educated, aristocratic Greek men. His critique of the ruling classes that dominated these schools that “'Nothing is enough for those for whom enough is too little' is as applicable today as in his age...."
In the public eye: “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”, by August Nimtz
July 3, 2026
About “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”, by August Nimtz Over the last decade, Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition has had a tremendous influence on... READ MORE
In the public eye: Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”
June 24, 2026
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.
In the public eye: Socialist Register 2026
June 24, 2026
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.
In the public eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”
June 16, 2026
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....
In the public eye: Andy Merrifield’s “Roses for Gramsci”
June 4, 2026
The latest: "....Is 'subaltern' a code for the working classes? Is 'hegemony' an economic force or a cultural power? Are 'organic intellectuals' inherently more progressive? The answers to such questions depend upon your choice of scholar—whether, say, you’re reading a Foucauldian literary critic or a Marxist sociologist, a subaltern historian or a posthuman anthropologist. Over the years, Gramsci’s writing has been polished by critics of such diverse persuasions that it has now become a mirror: One opens his books only to confirm one’s own beliefs....when the English writer Andy Merrifield arrived in Rome, feeling 'washed out intellectually,' Gramsci came to the rescue...."
In the public eye: C.G. Beck’s “The Labor of Architecture”
June 4, 2026
The latest, in The Architect's Newspaper: 'There is a specter haunting the field of architecture, and that specter is called “Fuck the bosses”—or class consciousness....'