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Fred Magdoff interviewed on Mud and Water Radio

Fred Magdoff interviewed on Mud and Water Radio

February 20, 2024

Throughout the world, multinational firms, private investors and state corporations are buying agricultural land. Fred Magdoff is the author of the recent article "21st Century Land Grabs: Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession," published in the November 2013 issue of Monthly Review. He is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He was interviewed on the radio show Mud and Water, broadcast by CKUW in Winnipeg, Canada.

Capitalist Globalization reviewed by Systemic Disorder

Capitalist Globalization reviewed by Systemic Disorder

February 20, 2024

Corporate globalization is an international phenomenon by definition that is commonly opposed on nationalist lines. A process embedded in capitalist competition and advanced by the industrialists and financiers who directly benefit from it, however, transcends borders. Understanding corporate globalization is necessary to developing strategies to effectively counter it, and relying on nationalist arguments is a barrier to grasping the systemic nature of globalization, argues Martin Hart-Landsberg in his just released book Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance and Alternatives.

Thoughts on Nelson Mandela by Alan Wieder, author of Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid

Thoughts on Nelson Mandela by Alan Wieder, author of Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid

February 20, 2024

Long-time South African educator and President of the New Unity Movement, R. O. Dudley had a quote that he used when speaking of various iconic South African struggle leaders: He "had arms, not wings." It is a phrase that we should remember when speaking of the late Nelson Mandela, but unfortunately, press coverage in the United States as well as throughout the world has turned Madiba into a Hallmark greeting card figure. And while Mandela's role as a freedom fighter and the major force for reconciliation in the new democratic South Africa should be honored and celebrated, we must remember that we are talking about a complex revolutionary, and also a complex politician.

Monthly Review Gift Subscription with Free Book!

Monthly Review Gift Subscription with Free Book!

February 20, 2024

Give the gift of Monthly Review this holiday season! For the special price of $29, give someone a 1-year subscription to Monthly Review, along with a free book. Choose from An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich, or The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism by Samir Amin.

The Ecological Rift reviewed in Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research

February 20, 2024

At the core of The Ecological Rift is an analysis of the fundamentally antagonistic relationship between capitalism and the environment. The authors explore "various radical ecologies that challenge the treadmill of capitalist accumulation, with the object of generating a new relation to the earth." Foster et al., argue that humanity has become alienated from its natural environment. Drawing on Marx's ecology, they argue that the separation of one's inorganic from organic nature poses a serious threat to both the basis of life and society as a whole.

Ronnie Kasrils discusses Nelson Mandela on Democracy Now!

Ronnie Kasrils discusses Nelson Mandela on Democracy Now!

February 20, 2024

Ronnie Kasrils was a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, Minister of Intelligence in the post-apartheid government, and author of The Unlikely Secret Agent, published by Monthly Review Press. He's interviewed on Democracy Now!, discussing his relationship with Nelson Mandela and how the ANC's economic views have shifted.

Henry Giroux interviewed on Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Henry Giroux interviewed on Background Briefing with Ian Masters

February 20, 2024

Henry Giroux is the author of America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth, published this year by Monthly Review Press. He was interviewed on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, discussing his recent appearance on Bill Moyers, "zombie politics," student activism, and more. Background Briefing is broadcast by KPFK in Los Angeles and syndicated around the United States.

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid reviewed by Counterfire

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid reviewed by Counterfire

February 20, 2024

A remarkable political biography of two activists who devoted their lives to the struggle for equality in South Africa... Given its wealth of detail, the wide range of interviews that Weider has conducted, and the letters to which he has been granted access, it deserves to remain the definitive biography of First and Slovo for a long time... This timely book should be read by all who seek to understand the remarkable couple and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in depth.

NEW! Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress by Steve Early

NEW! Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress by Steve Early

February 20, 2024

Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform.

Save Our Unions reviewed in Open Media Boston

Save Our Unions reviewed in Open Media Boston

February 20, 2024

At the beginning of 2013, American workers were reeling from body blows -- in Michigan among other places. How does that state transmogrify from being the heart of the labor movement to a "right-to-work (for less)" locale, taking its place alongside the Deep South? This anti-worker plague swept through surrounding states. Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio, in that order, took away workers' right to negotiate their conditions, even though this tack was defeated by a vote of the public in Ohio in November 2011. Indiana enacted a right-to-work law affecting private sector employees. A year after the Ohio vote, workers in Michigan were defeated on two referenda concerning government workers' ability to negotiate. At that stage, what happened in the latter state shouldn't have shocked anyone.

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