EXCERPT: How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution
February 20, 2024
"Yes, there would be many painfully restrictive measures. But they would not be imposed by government decree, and they certainly would never be neoliberal...."
Monthly Review Press
The Return of Nature wins ASA’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award
February 20, 2024
MR editor John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020) was the recipient of the Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association for 2022...
WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: Capitalism in the Anthropocene by John Bellamy Foster (Plus: EXCERPTS)
February 20, 2024
...For many, willing to resign humanity to its “fate,” the idea of a way out of our current dilemma, fundamentally altering society in order to avoid the socioecological chasm before us, will undoubtedly sound utopian. But utopia, a pun coined in the sixteenth century by Thomas More meaning both “nowhere” and “good place,” and therefore often seen as representing a kind of dream state or wishful projection into the future, loses its idealistic connotation in the context of a planetary dystopia where catastrophe, measured against historical precedents, has now become normal and threatens to become irreversible on a planetary scale, due to the inherent apocalyptic tendencies of the current mode of production...
Notice what Kohei Saito is reading?
February 20, 2024
In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of "Monopoly Capital," by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book "Capital in the Anthropocene" (Editor's note: Not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster's book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English...
Yes, &: The Lincoln Brigades vs. !Brigadistas! (A review by coeditor Paul Buhle, for ‘The Common Reader’)
February 20, 2024
War comics, with a democratic twist, seem to be coming of age … again. The Lincoln Brigade is a good if imperfect contribution.
Work could be different (Yates featured in ‘Labor Notes’)
February 20, 2024
...From the employer’s point of view, our labor power is simply a commodity, no different than the inanimate buildings, machines, tools, and raw materials purchased by businesses. Given our circumstances, we must sell this commodity to survive. But after we do, the employer has no guarantee that our capacity to toil will be converted into actual work effort. Workers have always resisted their commodity status...
The Global Fight Against Fascism (!Brigadistas! reviewed in ‘Counterpunch’)
February 20, 2024
"Social democrats are not great fighters. While the American right-wing does not want to admit it, (nor do centrist Dems or even, in fact, much of the left) the most effective fighters against fascism are communists and always have been...."
Inextricable connections: war and fascism abroad, and threats to workers at home (!Brigadistas! reviewed in ‘Portside NY’)
February 20, 2024
!Brigadistas! is a valuable, accessible textual and visual representation of history. It is recommended for those who are familiar with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Spanish Civil War, and the left of the 1930s and would find refreshing a reminder of its history. And, even more, !Brigadistas! can serve as a vibrant tool for political education for those who would be new to the subject.
The poisonous fruits of white supremacy: The rise of the right (Horne, on the podcast, “De Facto”)
February 20, 2024
On the recent shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the coup of January 6, 2021, the legacy of US and French colonialism in Haiti, China's Belt and Road initiatives, and....
Work work work – so a few can be rich (Yates published in “Counterpunch”)
February 20, 2024
...we are also the only commodity that can disrupt production and halt the flow of profits that makes growth possible. Workers have always protested their commodity status, rioting, forming labor unions, building political organizations, even fomenting revolution....