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Watch: Vijay Prashad on crisis in the Caribbean (Shelter and Solidarity )

Watch: Vijay Prashad on crisis in the Caribbean (Shelter and Solidarity )

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)

A “punchy manifesto” (Eisenstein reviewed by Socialism and Democracy)

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....

“A Socialist Defector” (Grossman reviewed in Socialism and Democracy)

“A Socialist Defector” (Grossman reviewed in Socialism and Democracy)

While deploring “shameful” aspects of Stalin’s rule and its “heavy hand” that limited economic experimentation, Grossman finds the Soviet presence to have been crucial in erasing fascism from public life, “breaking the chokehold of cartels, banks, chauvinist press lords and arrogant Junkers.”

WATCH! MR Conversations: “Extraordinary Threat,” with Emersberger, Podur, Wilpert and Paez-Victor

WATCH! MR Conversations: “Extraordinary Threat,” with Emersberger, Podur, Wilpert and Paez-Victor

In their new book "Extraordinary Threat," Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur delve into the critical questions: What is the nature of Venezuela's government? Is it a dictatorship? Are Venezuela's problems due to misgovernment, or are they due to U.S. interference? What would happen if Venezuela fell to U.S. imperialism? How has the U.S. been able to get away with this? And above all: Taking Venezuela as a case study, how does regime change propaganda work?