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The Contradictions of "Real Socialism" reviewed on Organizing Upgrade

The Contradictions of "Real Socialism" reviewed on Organizing Upgrade

February 20, 2024

People should read this book for the very reason that it is not a blueprint for socialism, but because it provides a basis for deep ongoing discussions of what socialism should look like in the twenty-first century. I think that many of the theoretical points are the basis for a discussion on how socialists in the USA should be acting, what struggles are key, and how our struggles now lay a basis for a socialist future.

What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism reviewed in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education

What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism reviewed in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education

February 20, 2024

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism is an important book on many levels. The authors' ability to condense a large number of very complex environmental issues in a short and concise manner is commendable. Large-scale environmental issues provide context to the magnitude of the problem, while localised examples of devastation provide strong arguments for its impact, cause for concern and urgent need to respond.

Read an Excerpt from Race in Cuba by Esteban Morales Domínguez on LINKS

Read an Excerpt from Race in Cuba by Esteban Morales Domínguez on LINKS

February 20, 2024

Our friends at Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal have posted an excerpt from the new MR Press book Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality by Esteban Morales Domínguez. Read the first chapter, "Challenges of the Racial Question in Cuba."

Steve Brouwer events in November

Steve Brouwer events in November

February 20, 2024

Join MR Press author Steve Brouwer as he discusses his book, Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care, in Ithaca, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison.

NEW! Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, and Vivek Chibber

NEW! Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, and Vivek Chibber

February 20, 2024

Socialist Register 2013 seeks to explore and clarify strategy for the Left in the light of new challenges and new opportunities. Socialists today have to confront two realities: that they cannot avoid the question of reforms and a gradualist path out of capitalism, and that the organizational vehicles for socialism will most likely have to abide by different structures and principles than those that dominated left politics in the 20th century. Though solutions are not obvious, Socialist Register 2013 interrogates these dilemmas and critiques some unhelpful radical thinking that obstructs the reconsideration of socialist strategy for the 21st century.

Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti reviewed in The Bullet

Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti reviewed in The Bullet

February 20, 2024

Drawing upon first-hand interviews with both paramilitaries, elites and their victims, and with corroboration provided by thousands of U.S. State Department documents (obtained through Freedom of Information Act document requests), Sprague's incisive contribution to the historical record makes it all too clear how the U.S. government and a collection of local elites have consistently undermined democracy in Haiti – from the nineteenth century right through to the present day.

The Endless Crisis reviewed in The Progressive Populist

The Endless Crisis reviewed in The Progressive Populist

February 20, 2024

The Great Recession has ended, unlike slow/no growth. For a deeper sense of why, get a copy of The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney. The duo of scholars and professors connect the dots in a radical critique of modern-day capitalism. Theirs is a rigorous analysis, empirical and theoretical, of the twin trends of slowing growth and growing tumult.

NEW! Faces of Latin America: Fourth Edition

NEW! Faces of Latin America: Fourth Edition

February 20, 2024

Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment and cultures of Latin America. This fourth edition updates the book for 2012 and covers the most pressing issues facing Latin America today.

NEW! Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution, edited by Clairmont Chung

NEW! Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution, edited by Clairmont Chung

February 20, 2024

This book presents a moving and insightful portrait of the great scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney through the words of academics, writers, artists, and political activists who knew him intimately or felt his influence. These informal recollections and reflections demonstrate why Rodney is such a widely admired figure throughout the world, especially in poor countries and among oppressed peoples everywhere.

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