Yes, &: The Lincoln Brigades vs. !Brigadistas! (A review by coeditor Paul Buhle, for ‘The Common Reader’)
War comics, with a democratic twist, seem to be coming of age … again. The Lincoln Brigade is a good if imperfect contribution. | more…
Grappling with “Capital’s” entirety: Not just for first-time readers (Heinrich reviewed by ‘Marx & Philosophy Review of Books’)
Heinrich’s close attention to the original German, contrary to many anglophone scholars, is another element of his textual approach that strengthens the accuracy of the interpretation…..to say that “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital’” is not only for first-time readers may be to state the obvious. It is a commentary that is straightforward in its exposition and indispensable for beginners, yet still challenges those who have already long dedicated themselves to a study of ‘Capital’…. | more…
Work work work – so a few can be rich (Yates published in “Counterpunch”)
…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…
Rescuing Marx, and Marxism… (The Return of Nature reviewed by ‘Theory & Struggle’)
…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…
WATCH MR Conversations: Work Work Work, with Michael Yates and Intan Suwandi (Plus: EXCERPTS)
“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…
Watch: Andy Merrifield on Joyce, Marx, Lefebvre (The Marxist Education Project)
‘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…
WATCH “MR Conversations: Anne Braden Speaks,” featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, Roz Pelles, and editor Ben Wilkins (Plus: EXCERPTS)
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…
Why the working class should abolish work (Yates and Day on “Work Work Work,” in ‘The Progressive’)
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…
The historic threats to annex the D.R. (Horne, in ‘Business Insider’)
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…
Listen: A book to refer to for years to come (“The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans” reviewed by ‘The People’s Voice’)
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…
James Boggs’ “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Workers Notebook” (Black Agenda Report excerpts Chapter 6)
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…
From the hard right and the political parties of Capital, to the crisis of centrism (Marxist Education Project features ‘Socialist Register’ 2022)
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…
The poisonous fruits of white supremacy: The rise of the right (Horne, on the podcast, “De Facto”)
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…