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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”

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

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”

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....'

New! “A Radical Anthropologist: The Trials and Triumphs of Kathleen Gough”

April 28, 2026

Who said, "Anthropology is a child of imperialism"?

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."

On “Lettuce Wars”: Remembering the struggle of farmworkers

March 10, 2026

Bruce Neuburger (author of the recent book, Postcards to Hitler), wrote to MRP recently to remind us about the incredible efforts of Chicano farmworkers to gain their rights, described in... READ MORE

William Costa, on the anarchist journalist Rafael Barrett (‘The Guardian’)

February 27, 2026

Anarchist chronicler of ‘Paraguayan sorrow’ – once known only in radical Latin American circles – is finally being recognized in his adopted country....

William Costa’s translation of “Paraguayan Sorrow”

February 23, 2026

Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there. However, there has been a resurgence of interest in his life and work. We hope that with the publication of this first English translation of his major work, which includes his powerful set of essays The Truth of the Yerba Mate Forests, the life and works of Rafael Barrett will inspire readers in the English-speaking world. His words speak to today’s workers and peasants as they did to their Paraguayan counterparts more than 100 years ago....

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