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Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

August 1, 2026

The latest, in Le Monde: "En 1999, une historienne britannique, Frances Stonor Saunders, a décrit dans Who Paid the Piper? CIAand the Cultural Cold War ( Qui mène la danse ? La CIA et la guerre froide culturelle , Denoël, 2003) comment la CIA infiltrait la culture des années 1950 et 1960 par l’entremise de fondations commeFord ou Rockefeller. Gabriel Rockhill prolonge cette enquête en montrant comment les Etats-Unis ontutilisé ces mêmes canaux pour influencer les théoriciens de gauche – notamment ceux de l’école deFrancfort – afin de rendre leurs idées compatibles avec le capitalisme...."
Andy Merrifield’s many books, from “Roses for Gramsci” to “Marx, Dead and Alive”

Andy Merrifield’s many books, from “Roses for Gramsci” to “Marx, Dead and Alive”

July 2, 2026

The latest: "....Is 'subaltern' a code for the working classes? Is 'hegemony' an economic force or a cultural power? Are 'organic intellectuals' inherently more progressive? The answers to such questions depend upon your choice of scholar—whether, say, you’re reading a Foucauldian literary critic or a Marxist sociologist, a subaltern historian or a posthuman anthropologist. Over the years, Gramsci’s writing has been polished by critics of such diverse persuasions that it has now become a mirror: One opens his books only to confirm one’s own beliefs....when the English writer Andy Merrifield arrived in Rome, feeling 'washed out intellectually,' Gramsci came to the rescue...."
“Silencing Fighting Bob: The Attack on Antiwar Progressives During the First World War”

“Silencing Fighting Bob: The Attack on Antiwar Progressives During the First World War”

July 1, 2026

The latest: ""....To keep track of the multitudinous political figures and organizations featured in the book, the author helpfully provides a glossary of detailed biographical and organizational profiles. It was an age prolific especially of government acronyms and of faceless bureaucrats charged with keeping Americans as misinformed as possible about the true state of the world. Eric Chester has written an ambitious book about momentous government initiatives to quell antiwar opposition...."
Socialist Register 2026

Socialist Register 2026

June 24, 2026

June 27th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.
C.G. Beck’s “The Labor of Architecture”

C.G. Beck’s “The Labor of Architecture”

June 4, 2026

The latest, in The Architect's Newspaper: 'There is a specter haunting the field of architecture, and that specter is called “Fuck the bosses”—or class consciousness....'

The Digital Mask of Class Power (Forthcoming: “Digitalization in India”)

March 31, 2026

The latest: "What has happened in the 15 years when digitalisation was expected to clean up systems, make governments more efficient, make services more inclusive, reduce poverty, and reduce dependence on the state and reduce inequality? Okay, that last was perhaps never said to have been on the agenda, but it should have been. The articles brought together by the Research Unit in Political Economy (RUPE) analyse, through field surveys and policy documents, the experience of those whom the system has so far failed to serve…."

In the public eye: Contributors to “A Land With A People”

March 30, 2026

The latest from Mohammed Mhawish: "We have to ask ourselves: Do we know Hind? Of course we’ve heard her voice, or maybe have seen the building someone renamed after her at Columbia in her honor — which matters, and which she would have deserved, and which is still not the same as knowing her. But do we know her laughter, the way she moved through a room, what she was afraid of, what she loved, the world she was building inside herself at six years old? We learn none of it from the film. We learn it, if we learn it at all, from the interviews her mother gave on the side, on other people’s platforms. The film that claims her voice does not make space for her life."

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