…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…. | more…
…until I read ‘The Return of Nature’ half a century later, I knew nothing of this or of the way Tansley’s ‘ecosystem approach’ drew so much from Marxist ideas… | more…
“Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation and Class Struggle,” by Michael Yates, new, from Monthly Review Press! Read for excerpts from the introduction and first chapter… | more…
‘Capital’ was Marx’s dreaming fargazing, his Here Comes Everybody, a condition, he thought, where all countries were headed, his image of everybody’s future…. | more…
Stay tuned for more details: On July 18th, Ben Wilkins, the editor of Anne Braden Speaks and Director of Raise Up The South will be joined by Rosalyn Pelles of Repairers of the Breach and former Director of the National Rainbow Coalition during the Jesse Jackson campaign, and the renown public intellectual and author of Freedom Dreams. | more…
Employers want your body. They want your mind, too. When you can’t work anymore, you’re disposable. I want people to think about their work and their lives. Maybe they’ll be inspired to take some action… | more…
white Americans largely fell into three groups concerning the issue of annexation, Dr. Horne told Insider. One group supported removing Black Americans from the mainland to remove any reminders of slavery. Another group supported removing Black Americans because they didn’t want the US to become a multiracial republic. And a third group wanted to keep Black people on the mainland because they were a cheap labor supply…. | more…
Labour organizers have every interest in getting wise to how pensions work and making sure they can transmit this information to the membership in a way that steels them for the fights ahead. This will undoubtedly be a book they refer to for years to come as the capitalist crisis increases | more…
It is always a good time to revisit the writing of Detroit auto worker, activist, and author James Boggs . But as the diplomatic debacle of the Summit of the Americas unfolds in Los Angeles, his work seems especially relevant…. | more…
Ingar Solty, Bill Fletcher Jr., Samir Gandesha, Simon Mohun and Samir Sonti present articles from the 2022 edition of Socialist Register, on Trump and right-wing populism, the politics of false concreteness, market polarization, and political polarization… | more…
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…. | more…
…Stalin asked, “So you think my truth needs improvement?”
“The truth,” Radek replied, “can’t be improved. The truth is true, or it is not. But a line of evidence can gain a great deal by new and better evidence…” | more…
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled “MR Classics,” starting with Kwame Nkrumah’s thought, the philosophy he called ‘Consciencism.” We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire. | more…