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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.

“The Coming of the American Behemoth” resuscitates empirical analyses of fascism (Roberto reviewed in Socialism and Democracy)

February 20, 2024

As then, and today, the primary objective of American fascist movements is to undermine the democratic impulse that threatens concentrated wealth...

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 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..."

The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past (FAIR publishes ‘Extraordinary Threat’ excerpt)

February 20, 2024

It is worth summing up some of these key lies: 1) Venezuela was “once prosperous.” In fact, Venezuela was an unequal country in which most people were poor despite the country’s oil wealth; 2) Venezuela was a democracy before Chavismo. In fact, politicians alternated holding power according to an undemocratic agreement, and rammed austerity down the throats of Venezuela’s poor by committing massacres, such as the Caracazo....

Listen: Joe Emersberger on Alex Saab, “knight errant” (Coauthor of “Extraordinary Threat” interviewed by Gorilla Radio)

February 20, 2024

...in the service of besieged Venezuela, en route to Iran, another nation similarly blockaded by America, when he was intercepted by Cape Verde authorities and thrown into prison there....

The fictitious cause of Venezuelan precarity (“Extraordinary Threat” reviewed in Counterpunch)

February 20, 2024

Chavez inherited an impoverished country with a thin, glittering layer of affluence at the top. To the horror of Washington and Venezuelan plutocrats, he promptly began redistributing wealth to the poor...

Gerald Horne: From a Jim Crow hospital to the American Book Award

February 20, 2024

Born in a Jim Crow hospital. Attended racially segregated “apartheid schools.” Grew up in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood of St. Louis, an area similar to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street and home to several prominent Black businesses that were erased forever by racially motivated construction projects...

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

“The Coming of the American Behemoth” resuscitates empirical analyses of fascism (Roberto reviewed in Socialism and Democracy)

MacArthur’s myriad machinations to start World War III (Classic text, The Hidden History of the Korean War, reviewed for ‘Liberated Texts’)

The sour vindication, bitter eloquence of “Dead Epidemiologists” (Rob Wallace interviewed by The Nation)

Listen: As back-orders for “How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital'” pile up, Antifada speaks with Michael Heinrich

Critical clarity of perspective on pandemic’s cause (‘Dead Epidemiologists’ reviewed by Marx & Philosophy Review of Books)

The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past (FAIR publishes ‘Extraordinary Threat’ excerpt)

Listen: Joe Emersberger on Alex Saab, “knight errant” (Coauthor of “Extraordinary Threat” interviewed by Gorilla Radio)

The fictitious cause of Venezuelan precarity (“Extraordinary Threat” reviewed in Counterpunch)

Gerald Horne: From a Jim Crow hospital to the American Book Award

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