Poetry, never more political or personal than now (Watch: Camila Valle and Joe Ramsey host Marge Piercy on “Shelter and Solidarity”)
February 20, 2024
Marge Piercy asks: "Can thousands in the street change our long, laudy history, now?"
Monthly Review Press
Venezuela’s El Maizal Commune in the face of the sanctions (Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert, on Venezuelanalysis)
February 20, 2024
The sanctions have severely affected the commune’s production and also the life of the pueblo. Imperialism finished off Iraq and Libya, and they are trying to do the same with us. Sanctions amount to a declaration of war....
Watch, Listen: Addressing audiences from Wisconsin to Washington, Horne hones in on Haiti
February 20, 2024
"....it's also striking to note that Haiti has all kinds of natural resources, including gold! They're licking their lips on Wall Street, salivating, contemplating the possibility of descending en masse on Haiti to exploit Haiti's vast natural resources."
Listen: Why the right attacks Critical Race Theory, without even knowing what it is (“The Analysis” brings Gerald Horne back for an interview)
February 20, 2024
It’s a set of loose propositions that fundamentally come down to this. If you look at the overrepresentation of black Americans in prisons or the overrepresentation in terms of being suspended from schools K through 12, you can come to one or two conclusions. You can come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with black people, or you can come to the conclusion that there’s something wrong with society....
The border crisis: Another big lie from the Right (David Wilson, in Truthout)
February 20, 2024
It’s true that as of June, this fiscal year’s apprehensions had topped 1 million for the first time since 2006. Still, this only seems high because of a sharp contrast with the previous 14 years....
On Biden’s staged riots in Cuba (Prensa Latina interviews Salim Lamrani)
February 20, 2024
Lamrani abundó que en este contexto de doble castigo bloqueo-pandemia resulta lógico el malestar de las personas, escenario que Estados Unidos busca aprovechar para conseguir su objetivo trazado desde el triunfo de la Revolución en 1959: 'romper el orden establecido y conseguir un cambio de régimen'....
Watch: Vijay Prashad on crisis in the Caribbean (Shelter and Solidarity )
February 20, 2024
Shelter and Solidarity brings together Vijay Prashad, Ezili Dantò and Moise St Louis to try to come to terms with the Haitian and Cuban peoples' complex responses to forced reverse-reparations, sanctions, invasions, and constant threats of “regime change”.... while keeping a focus on what we have to do, as activists in the heart of the Empire....
A “punchy manifesto” (Eisenstein reviewed by Socialism and Democracy)
February 20, 2024
Read as a short, punchy manifesto it serves as a timely call- to-action for a generalist audience that seeks to organise against what bell hooks (2004) calls “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. I agree with Eisenstein that thinking with black radical conceptu- alisations of intersectionality is central to such a project....
As Modi pushes neoliberal “reforms,” let’s remember: Why were the banks nationalised in India? (Prabhat Patnaik, coauthor of “Capital and Imperialism,” in Portside)
February 20, 2024
Every major economic step taken by the Narendra Modi government, from Goods and Services Tax, to demonetisation, to the farm laws, has been aimed against the petty production sector and has sought to carry forward the process of primitive accumulation of capital, in accordance with the neoliberal agenda.
The teeth in the Labor Law trap (Marx & Philosophy Review of Books reviews “Tells the Bosses We’re Coming”)
February 20, 2024
....not concerned to diagnose the cause of workers’ problems, Richman’s analysis implicitly centers work law as the principal culprit responsible for the labour movement’s predicament. He makes a strong case that labour law, rather than balancing the power disparities between employees and employers and protecting worker rights, has instead become a ‘trap’ favoring bosses and impeding worker organization. He deftly analyzes the teeth in the trap...