EXCERPT: How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution
“Yes, there would be many painfully restrictive measures. But they would not be imposed by government decree, and they certainly would never be neoliberal….” | more…
Excerpt: Difference, Exploitation & Emancipation (Editor of The Dialectics of Dependency, in Decolonizing Then and Now, forthcoming in 2023)
Decolonial projects did not simply dwell on a race-first, class-first or even gender-first line of thought which so appeals today. What some might call “identity politics” today was not a dead end for class-based projects of liberation; it was a necessary and generative start to the practice of solidarity and unity…. | more…
A graphic history of that precursor to the fight against fascism in WWII, the Spanish Civil War (!Brigadistas! reviewed in ‘The Nation’)
Ferguson deserves to be applauded for incorporating nuance into both the characters and the narrative of ¡Brigadistas! instead of hitting the reader over the head with political messaging. Don’t get me wrong: This is a very political book. But not everything about the characters and how they interact with one another is “politically correct,” making this a far more realistic drama than one might expect. | more…
An “immersive” narrative and “dazzling” art (!Brigadistas! reviewed by ‘Comicsgrinder’)
The look and feel of the book evokes wholesome family movies from the 1930s, spiked with a decidedly leftist view; or vintage comic books imbued with an earnest propaganda…Lastly, I must point out that the art is dazzling. Timmons isn’t just reworking old comics but she’s channeling them and making them her own. | more…
WATCH! MR Conversations: !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War
To start us off, author Miguel Ferguson shares an inspiring, humorous story about Abraham Lincoln Brigade member Abe Osheroff, one of the thousands of American volunteers that played their part in the Spanish Civil War…. | more…
“Can We Re-Invent Work?” Work Work Work reviewed in ‘The Bullet’)
Most of what Yates writes about in these essays reflects a deep understanding of Marxism and its application to an understanding of working-class strategy and necessary agendas. His critique of social democracy, as practiced both by elements within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the classical so-called Labour parties, is the kind of thinking that is absolutely necessary to help guide a future working-class strategy. | more…
Listen: “Haiti, Past, Present and Future” (Gerald Horne on the ‘De Facto Podcast’)
Through his characteristic style of global analysis, Horne’s analysis provides a historical and political cross-hatching between the Haitian Revolution and events taking place on the mainland often considered wholly unconnected therefrom, bringing the international implications of the Revolution into relief, and chronicling its seismic impact as the epicenter of universal emancipation against the tides of American counter-revolution. | more…
Listen: Have you dreamt of a world…. (An interview with Michael D. Yates about Work Work Work on Heartland Labor Forum)
Have you dreamt of a world where your job gives you fulfillment and respect? Where income inequality and discrimination have disappeared? Where we have health care for all? Michael Yates has dreams of such a world too… | more…
Watch: Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism (John Bellamy Foster delivers the fifth annual Engels Memorial Lecture)
Foster gave the annual Engels Memorial Lecture jointly to the Marx Memorial Library and the Working Class Movement Library…. | more…
Finding your class bearings in a leftwing universe (Work Work Work reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)
After a lifetime of activism, Yates is that rare thing: a defiantly unreconstructed Marxist faithful to self-evident truths whose enthusiasm for prosecuting working-class struggle with every weapon at our disposal is undimmed. | more…
Stabilising the human relation to the earth (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)
Geological epochs are divided into ages. So far the Anthropocene has been dominated by a globalised system of capitalist accumulation. Foster proposes the designation Capitalinian for this first geological age of the Anthropocene in the hope that it may be superseded by another; one “stabilizing the human relation to the earth” the Communian, rather than “an end-Anthropocene extinction event resulting in the destruction of civilization and quite possibly humanity itself.” | more…