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...
February 20, 2024
Decolonial projects did not simply dwell on a race-first, class-first or even gender-first line of thought which so appeals today. What some might call “identity politics” today was not a dead end for class-based projects of liberation; it was a necessary and generative start to the practice of solidarity and unity....
February 20, 2024
Heym’s own biography helps to explain why he chose Karl Radek as the central character for this historical novel. Like Heym, Radek was a literate and articulate Jew who rubbed authority the wrong way. Born Lolek Sobelsohn in Lemburg (Lviv), then under Austrian rule, Radek, like Heym, was a Marxist who became compromised as Russia went from being a beacon of revolutionary socialism to a Stalinist dictatorship. Radek helped to shape history and was also tested by it....
February 20, 2024
After a lifetime of activism, Yates is that rare thing: a defiantly unreconstructed Marxist faithful to self-evident truths whose enthusiasm for prosecuting working-class struggle with every weapon at our disposal is undimmed.
February 20, 2024
Foster gave the annual Engels Memorial Lecture jointly to the Marx Memorial Library and the Working Class Movement Library....
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...
February 20, 2024
Ferguson deserves to be applauded for incorporating nuance into both the characters and the narrative of ¡Brigadistas! instead of hitting the reader over the head with political messaging. Don’t get me wrong: This is a very political book. But not everything about the characters and how they interact with one another is “politically correct,” making this a far more realistic drama than one might expect.
February 20, 2024
The look and feel of the book evokes wholesome family movies from the 1930s, spiked with a decidedly leftist view; or vintage comic books imbued with an earnest propaganda...Lastly, I must point out that the art is dazzling. Timmons isn’t just reworking old comics but she’s channeling them and making them her own.
February 20, 2024
Through his characteristic style of global analysis, Horne’s analysis provides a historical and political cross-hatching between the Haitian Revolution and events taking place on the mainland often considered wholly unconnected therefrom, bringing the international implications of the Revolution into relief, and chronicling its seismic impact as the epicenter of universal emancipation against the tides of American counter-revolution.
February 20, 2024
as many have observed, for many people it’s easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Foster’s book tells us that we have a choice: “ruin or revolution.” The reason for the necessity of revolution is that tinkering won’t solve our problems. Technocratic fixes won’t save the Earth as a place fit for human habitation. The problem, as he told me in the interview that follows, is systemic....
