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Silvertown reviewed on the Radical Sydney / Radical History blog

February 20, 2024

John Tully writes in the Preface to his new book, Silvertown – The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labour Movement, (Monthly Review Press, 2014), that 'Conservatives have attacked some of my previous work as being partisan, and this book should upset them again.' Radical historians, however, will welcome it for precisely that reason. And treasure it, because this is a way of writing labour history – or any history – that academic historians usually run a mile from. Radical historians know that it is impossible to be non-partisan. As Tully explains, 'Historians must always be scrupulous with the facts, but we should be deeply suspicious of claims that studies of human society can be "value free".'

Marta Harnecker’s Remarks upon receiving the 2013 Liberator’s Prize for Critical Thought

February 20, 2024

On August 15, 2014, Marta Harnecker accepted the 2013 Liberator's Prize for Critical Thought, awarded for her book, A World to Build: New Paths towards Twenty-first Century Socialism (forthcoming from Monthly Review Press). Available here are her remarks, translated by Federico Fuentes and originally published by Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal.

The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism reviewed in The Progressive Populist

February 20, 2024

Don't let the title scare you. John Bellamy Foster's The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy (Monthly Review Press) is a good read and resource for making sense of the world around us. Foster edits the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review, launched in 1949 with an Albert Einstein essay, and he is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. For the past three decades, Foster has been breaking new ground in writing on the ecology, economy and polity in the pages of MR and MR Press.

Steve Early interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

February 20, 2024

Steve Early, author of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress, published by Monthly Review Press, is interviewed by Cindy Sheehan for her radio show "Cindy Sheehan's Soap Box."

Gerald Horne and Steve Early at LaborFest Hawaii

February 20, 2024

Join two MR Press authors, Gerald Horne and Steve Early, at the third annual LaborFest Hawaii, on Friday, September 19th, 2014, 6:00 p.m., at Mark's Garage in Honolulu, HI. Gerald Horne is the author of Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii and Race to Revolution; Steve Early is author of Save Our Unions.

Save Our Unions reviewed in LaborOnline

February 20, 2024

Labor law is outdated and rotten in the US, corporations have an inordinate amount of power, so it is rare that unions win or even strike these days. Solid activist leadership in our unions is rare in these last decades of concessionary bargaining and the sustained war on the working class. The lack of a class perspective by many Americans makes them susceptible to the ugliest sorts of manipulation against their own interests. Steve Early has seen much of it and described it in a clear-eyed fashion in his latest book, Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress (Monthly Review 2013). It should be read by unionists and their supporters and the more than 60% of Americans who pollsters say would like to be unionized.

Sept. 25: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks in New York City

February 20, 2024

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a long-time contributor to and friend of Monthly Review, will be discussing her new book An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States at Bluestockings Books in New York City, on Thursday, September 25, 7pm.

Steve Early interviewed in Healthcare-NOW!

February 20, 2024

Question 1: Both your new book Save Our Unions: Dispatches From a Movement in Distress - and your previous one, The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor - draw on your experience as a union negotiator and longtime single payer activist. In 2008, liberal foundations, major unions, and the AFL-CIO created and financed Health Care for American Now! (HCAN). This lobbying coalition had a name similar to ours but it soon distanced itself from the goal of single payer. In retrospect, what impact did HCAN have on labor's quest for a better health care system?