“Suspense and dramatic interest” (Radek reviewed in ‘Socialism and Democracy’)
February 20, 2024
"...works brilliantly to create suspense and dramatic interest in that the reader is asked to see the world through the eyes of its main protagonist..."
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“Pathbreaking…an ideal teaching tool for college classes” (A Land With A People reviewed for ‘Socialism and Democracy’)
February 20, 2024
Aside from being an ideal teaching tool for college classes, this book, with its combination of poetry, personal statement, and rueful self-examination would make for an engrossing theatrical performance....
NEW! SOCIALIST REGISTER 2023 (EXCERPTS)
February 20, 2024
The 59th annual volume of the "Socialist Register" examines the growth of corporate power and other important organizational trends in global capitalism. Rejecting such notions as “stakeholder capitalism,” it reviews the organization and strategies of unions and the left as it searches for new routes to socialism. Read on for excerpts from the likes of Adam Hanieh, Patrick Bond, Charmaine Chua and Spencer Cox...
Listen: “Ending the Myth” podcast (Co-author of Dissenting POWs interviewed on ‘Mechanical Freak’)
February 20, 2024
The podcast Mechanical Freak, recently welcomed esteemed sociologist Jerry Lembcke to talk about how the memory of the Vietnam War was both recreated and used in the 1980s and 1990s to unify public sentiment against the liberatory movements of the 1960s. Lembcke reminded the audience that even in the creation of memory, there is a political struggle for the future that needs to be waged.
The Caribbean Philosophical Association grants the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award to Gerald Horne
February 20, 2024
The Caribbean Philosophical Association has announced that the 2023 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award will has gone to Professor Gerald Horne.
“Stimulating…much to grapple with” (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)
February 20, 2024
Foster explains that "in general we can expect the Global South to be the site of the most rapid growth of an environmental proletariat, arising from the degradation of material conditions of the population in ways hat are equally ecological and economic".
Stabilising the human relation to the earth (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)
February 20, 2024
Geological epochs are divided into ages. So far the Anthropocene has been dominated by a globalised system of capitalist accumulation. Foster proposes the designation Capitalinian for this first geological age of the Anthropocene in the hope that it may be superseded by another; one “stabilizing the human relation to the earth” the Communian, rather than “an end-Anthropocene extinction event resulting in the destruction of civilization and quite possibly humanity itself.”
Watch: Trotsky and France, Haiti, and Lula’s victory (Gerald Horne on the ‘De Facto Podcast’)
February 20, 2024
Dr. Gerald Horne joined episode #3 of the De Facto Podcast to discuss the roots of current events, drawing upon "Confronting Black Jacobins" in relation to the political situation in Haiti and its Revolution, Lula's victory, American intervention, revolts inspired by the Haitian Revolution, the origins of the Dominican Republic...
Watch: Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism (John Bellamy Foster delivers the fifth annual Engels Memorial Lecture)
February 20, 2024
Foster gave the annual Engels Memorial Lecture jointly to the Marx Memorial Library and the Working Class Movement Library....
Listen: Have you dreamt of a world…. (An interview with Michael D. Yates about Work Work Work on Heartland Labor Forum)
February 20, 2024
Have you dreamt of a world where your job gives you fulfillment and respect? Where income inequality and discrimination have disappeared? Where we have health care for all? Michael Yates has dreams of such a world too...