The mainstream media continues to harvest all the disinformation it can concerning the relationship between Trump and Putin and the character of Putin himself, not to mention the overall generalizations about the state of Russia and the kind of people Russians are. … | more…
Myths that enhance private and state power are blooming in the current political moment. Take President Trump’s case for a ‘national emergency’ at the Mexico-US border. ¶ There is a history here. Author Michael E. Tigar unpacks it, though sparing ink on the 45th president… | more…
Amin, former director of the Third World Forum in Senegal, was renowned as one of the most significant theorists in the field of global economics, uneven development and imperialism. His work is a major reference point in explaining the origin and nature of the North/South divide…. | more…
Amid the rising tide of books on Marx and ecology, this book stands out. Much of this work has been about whether Marx’s analysis of capitalism was a blind commitment to industrial society that has ignored natural circumstances and ecological crisis. Kohei Saito brings Marx’s ecological notebooks into the debate, rediscovers Marx’s environmental concerns and their relevance to the critique of political economy, and reinforces the argument that Marx saw environmental crisis embedded in capitalism…. | more…
When I immigrated to the United States from South Africa towards the end of the 1960’s I was totally unaware of the wars of liberation against Portuguese colonialism that had begun in the early 1960’s in the neighboring countries of Mozambique and Angola. All I knew about Mozambique was the reputation of its capital, Lourenço Marques, as a cosmopolitan Portuguese-style city where white South Africans went on holiday…. | more…
Michael D. Yates, author of the recently published Can the Working Class Change the World?, talks to Glen Ford, host, with Nellie Bailey, of Black Agenda Radio about his book and how most Americans don’t think of themselves as working class… | more…
Radical economist Michael Yates grew up in a western Pennsylvania manufacturing town, later hard hit by de-industrialization. He spent more than three decades working as a college professor in his home state. Despite his career in academia and editorial role at Monthly Review, a seventy-year old project of socialist intellectuals, Yates never lost touch with the life experience of high school classmates, friends, neighbors, and relatives who toiled in blue collar jobs…. | more…
In the first few chapters of Health Care Under the Knife, this image is torn asunder and the reader is given a peek into a world I know well—a world of endless paperwork and meaningless trainings, billing and coding requirements, and patient reviews that determine your hospital’s reimbursement. … | more…
On January 14, Mimi Rosenberg, host, with Ken Nash, of Building Bridges, NYC’s longest running labor & community affairs radio program, interviewed Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (2nd edition). What follows is a fascinating conversation of a “huge and complicated issue,” laden with illuminating facts… | more…
An apocalypse is ‘damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale,’ and Gerald Horne traces the transcontinental social devastation wrought in the 17th century both by the usual-suspect perpetrators—slave traders and owners—and by their unindicted co-conspirators, champions of mercantile and political freedoms in the British Isles and prerevolutionary American colonies… | more…
Thursday, February 7, The Marxist Education Project in Brooklyn, NY begins the first of five sessions studying Michael D. Yates‘s latest book, Can the Working Class Change the World? | more…