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In Australia? Join the September 11-13 Ecosocialism 2026 gathering!

In Australia? Join the September 11-13 Ecosocialism 2026 gathering!

September 8, 2026

If you're in Australia, make sure to go see Ian Angus at Ecosocialism 2026, representing the journal Climate and Capitalism, and offering his book in person! Capitalist imperialism is promoting the far right everywhere, enforcing neoliberal policies, and imposing military aggression and recolonisation on weaker nations. It has no answers to the climate crisis and no solutions for housing and cost of living. The Ecosocialism 2026: Resistance, decolonisation, liberation conference will bring together activists from across the Asia-Pacific and beyond to share experiences in how we can resist Capitalism's depravity and build the mass movements we need for system change. Featuring: Sabrina Fernandes; Ian Angus; Ayesha Ahmad; Remah Naji; and more....
Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

August 31, 2026

The latest: Rockhill does not claim, as he was immediately accused of doing, that “Western Marxism” was an “invention” of the CIA. But he reconstructs how the integration of this theoretical output into the “intellectual world war” against socialism was organized and conceptually thought through. He shows how far this integration went in specific cases and why it was logically consistent in terms of content. It was precisely because the “Western Marxists” tended “to support imperialism, or at least to make it acceptable.” It is to Rockhill’s credit that, drawing on the framework of a Marxist history of ideas, a discipline that has largely died out in the German-speaking world, he undertook the attempt to develop a comprehensive conception of this “world war.”
New: Matthew Stanley’s “The Ragged Edge of Freedom”

New: 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...."
“Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”

“Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”

August 12, 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....
Notice what Kohei Saito was reading when his career went soaring?

Notice what Kohei Saito was reading when his career went soaring?

August 12, 2026

In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of "Monopoly Capital," by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book "Capital in the Anthropocene" (not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster's book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among younger readers...

John Bellamy Foster’s “Breaking the Bonds of Fate”

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...."
New! “Requiem for French Theory”

New! “Requiem for French Theory”

August 10, 2026

The latest: "During the 1960s and 1970s, it was an oft-repeated quip that the European left was long on theory and short on practice, while the North American left was strong on action, but allergic to theory...."

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