February 20, 2024
The widespread shortfall in retirement income is the result of a bipartisan effort going back decades to move our savings away from traditional pensions to accounts like 401(k)s that enrich the financial services industry at our expense.
February 20, 2024
March is the month to dig in to Mészáros. Join "Essential Discussions" with Irv Kurki, or The Marxist Education Project's "Capital Studies Group" respectively focusing on 'Beyond Leviathan' and 'The Necessity of Social Control.'
February 20, 2024
...examining shards of slave property, waterways, mills, and vessels for storing water....
February 20, 2024
With Germany pledging to re-arm, we also witness the shortsightedness of world imperialism, which refuses to learn the lessons of the 20th century, especially the catastrophe of world war ending with the uncovering of industrial funeral pyres in 1945. Not only Washington but London, Brussels and Paris should be shuddering right now....
February 20, 2024
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.
February 20, 2024
The economic expansion just prior to the pandemic seemed to justify optimism about inequality. But Covid-19 showed just how little grounds there were for optimism. The pandemic demonstrated how poorly prepared for such a crisis a society could be that fails to provide universal, high-quality health care to a significant proportion of its population, as the case and death rates in the United States have demonstrated...
February 20, 2024
The ongoing debate about reviving the U.S. labor movement tries to grapple with the devastating decline in the union membership rate from one-third of the workforce in the 1950s to less than 11% today. In this discussion, occasionally a book comes along that is a great combination of labor history, thoughtful analysis of union organizing, and suggestions for ways forward. Shaun Richman’s "Tell the Bosses We’re Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century" is such a book.
February 20, 2024
Anti-American, anti-Jim Crow sentiment and against the white supremacist domination project were already present on the island well before the revolution....generating a revolt that was not only against foreign domination, but against a deeply racist domination that tried to impose the same 'Jim Crow' system on Cuba, trying to transform a society with racism into a racist society according to the model of white supremacy...
February 20, 2024
"In short, the principle is that journalistic organizations will be paid in advance, and what they produce primarily with public monies will be instantly put in the public domain and made available to all for free. The best check on abuses will be popular voting to determine the recipients. The process will be overseen by the U.S. Postal Service, with elections taking place online and with print ballots available at or through the Postal Service. This is a renewal of the Postal Service’s historic mission of sustaining independent and competitive journalism..."
February 20, 2024
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked a bizarre question at President Joe Biden’s November 3 press briefing. The president seemed to misunderstand the question, which referred to potential settlements of a lawsuit stemming from the Trump administration’s notorious 2017–18 family separation policy. Biden bungled his response, apparently calling reports about the settlement “garbage.” Not surprisingly, the media ran with the story of Biden’s blunder. Doocy’s question, on the other hand, was mostly ignored or played down....
