February 20, 2024
"It's the best program we have probably adopted in this country, certainly beloved by many people. But I wanted to say this to our audience, that -- much of our audience is younger than I am -- this is going to sound, on its face, boring, but this is one of the most important shows that we've done for you."
February 20, 2024
On this recent spot on "Cosmonaut," Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina discuss communes in both urban and rural settings, and their role in the transition to socialism, the questions around oil and the economy, the economic problems of the revolution, the shadows of bureaucratization, the differences between the cities and the countryside and possible way forward for the revolution.
February 20, 2024
Zhun Xu, author of "From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty," spoke alongside Chris Matlhako, Elias Khalil Jabbour, and Bikrum Gill on a panel titled, “Political Economies of Chinese Socialism.”
February 20, 2024
It isn’t all black and white, of course. “Mastery over nature” doesn’t by definition preclude environmental conservation, nor does indigeneity bar overexploitation. But neither is the resulting system a mush of gray. For capitalists themselves cast the operative distinctions here as a matter of celebrated principle.
February 20, 2024
The short answer is that when the U.S. was involved in Afghanistan, we cut deals with many warlords, shorthand for gangsters, that's number one. Number two: Afghanistan is quite rich with mineral wealth, which ironically enough, may end up going to the People's Republic of China, which is quite close to the Pakistanis, which was the major creator and backer of the Taliban, who are now in power. The third point, however, is that the Taliban is going to have a hard way to go..."
February 20, 2024
Value Chains thoroughly and powerfully critiques modern-day forms of capitalism by bringing back to the table the much-needed analytical lens of imperialism to show the continuities of unevenness, an unequal world economic system, and the dominance of powerful corporations and nations over other regions, places, economies, labour and resources.
February 20, 2024
'Radical Seattle' identifies the IWW as a catalyst for the germination of a class consciousness that encouraged individual laborers to recognize a kinship in their struggle and respond collectively.
February 20, 2024
In the week before the COP26 international summit, John Bellamy Foster offered a lecture analyzing the climate emergency and how we can achieve climate justice: October 26th at 1 ET
February 20, 2024
A moment in which tens of thousands of workers are on strike — at John Deere, at Kellogg’s, at Warrior Met Coal—might seem like a strange time to talk about a “right” to strike. But a legal right to strike must include the right to return to the job when the strike is over — win, lose or draw — and U.S. workers haven’t had that right since corporations and Ronald Reagan’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conspired to weaponize a long-dormant Supreme Court decision to legalize union-busting...Strikes are contagious.
February 20, 2024
"Sensing Injustice" is a modern history of American legal practice....
