“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....
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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.
MacArthur’s myriad machinations to start World War III (Classic text, The Hidden History of the Korean War, reviewed for ‘Liberated Texts’)
February 20, 2024
Stone documents MacArthur’s myriad machinations in eye-opening detail, noting that he “was trying to drag the US and United Nations into war with China and Russia. He was trying to start World War III”....
“The collateral effect of winning:” An encounter between lawyer Michael Tigar and one of his clients (Listen: Northern Sun Radio News Show)
February 20, 2024
In this interview on KFAI-Minneapolis with hosts Don Olson and Dave Gutknecht, Michael Tigar encounters one of his clients for the first time, live on the radio.
Enduring interest in “The Dawning of the Apocalypse” (Watch: Gerald Horne interviewed on “Citizen Truth”)
February 20, 2024
"Settler colonialism" begins in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida in 1565. Actually, September 15, 1565. I think people sort of know that, but they're so taken with the anglocentric narrative...
Refusing to “lose the game by forfeit” (“Venezuela, the Present as Struggle” reviewed by Counterfire)
February 20, 2024
'Processes of societal change must be carried out both “from above” and “from below”, without turning our backs on these contested spaces,’ said Antonio González Plessman, one of those interviewed by Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert...
Watch: Gerald Horne’s American Book Award acceptance speech
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne is this year's winner of the ABA, awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation, for his book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse," a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed.
The sour vindication, bitter eloquence of “Dead Epidemiologists” (Rob Wallace interviewed by The Nation)
February 20, 2024
“As an epidemiologist, you’re supposed to want to put yourself out of business,” Wallace said. “Everyone has bills to pay; I understand that. But the extent to which your corruption might lead to a pathogen that could kill a billion people—that’s where my line is”....“You can intellectually understand something but still not assimilate the oncoming damage,” he told me later, as he recalled the “sour vindication” of having his worst fears come true. “So there’s an aspect of rage, and an arrival at an understanding.”
Listen: As back-orders for “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital'” pile up, Antifada speaks with Michael Heinrich
February 20, 2024
Michael Heinrich "has a powerful critique of vulgar Marxism and the orthodoxies of the 19th and 20th centuries...Nerds, you're not going to want to miss this one!"
Critical clarity of perspective on pandemic’s cause (‘Dead Epidemiologists’ reviewed by Marx & Philosophy Review of Books)
February 20, 2024
Dead Epidemiologists "speaks more plainly than academic jargon is wont to allow. Yet, in my view, this is one of the book’s biggest strengths. It makes the book accessible, and that accessibility is going to be important if we, as a global community, are to tackle the problem that Wallace and his colleagues articulate..."