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“A very valuable history of an important period in the labour and socialist movements” (Counterfire reviews Chester)

February 20, 2024

Chester argues that free speech must be defended as an absolute principle, decrying any ‘call to suppress the views of those on the radical right’, repeatedly arguing against ‘no platform’ policies. Certainly, the left should oppose repressive state laws, but mobilising against racists and fascists when they attempt to use public space to propagate their agenda is essential. It is a necessary part of any defence of working-class interests.

Striketober! Let it spread like a contagion (Shaun Richman in ‘In These Times’)

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.

In honor of Mike Davis, with reference to the work of István Mészáros (Rob Wallace coauthors an essay published by OR Books)

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.

“An adventure tale that makes the law seem as fascinating as any saga” (Tigar’s memoir reviewed in Times Literary Supplement)

February 20, 2024

"Sensing Injustice" is a modern history of American legal practice....

An exhortation to reckon with systemic biases and inequalities (Science & Society reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World”)

February 20, 2024

It is a promising thing when a book titled Can the Working Class Change the World? feels current amid national and global upheaval, despite having been published two years ago....

China’s socialist model: Continuously producing new Marxists (Zhun Xu speaks at The People’s Forum NYC)

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.”

Externalization of costs, an Indonesian case study (“Value Chains” reviewed by Global Labour Journal)

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.

Listen: Why the U.S. Empire still perceives Venezuela as an “extraordinary threat” (‘Unauthorized Disclosure’ interviews Justin Podur)

February 20, 2024

In a discussion of the new book, "Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts Against Venezuel," Justin Podur clarifies: What they're doing in Colombia is what they say is happening in Venezuela..."

John Bellamy Foster in the lead up to the COP26 international summit

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

The Seattle General Strike, within a history of oppression and persistent resistance (Science & Society reviews “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”)

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.

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“A very valuable history of an important period in the labour and socialist movements” (Counterfire reviews Chester)

Striketober! Let it spread like a contagion (Shaun Richman in ‘In These Times’)

In honor of Mike Davis, with reference to the work of István Mészáros (Rob Wallace coauthors an essay published by OR Books)

“An adventure tale that makes the law seem as fascinating as any saga” (Tigar’s memoir reviewed in Times Literary Supplement)

An exhortation to reckon with systemic biases and inequalities (Science & Society reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World”)

China’s socialist model: Continuously producing new Marxists (Zhun Xu speaks at The People’s Forum NYC)

Externalization of costs, an Indonesian case study (“Value Chains” reviewed by Global Labour Journal)

Listen: Why the U.S. Empire still perceives Venezuela as an “extraordinary threat” (‘Unauthorized Disclosure’ interviews Justin Podur)

John Bellamy Foster in the lead up to the COP26 international summit

The Seattle General Strike, within a history of oppression and persistent resistance (Science & Society reviews “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”)

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