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Michael Tigar recounts the story of Terry Nichols (Listen: For the Defense)

Michael Tigar recounts the story of Terry Nichols (Listen: For the Defense)

February 20, 2024

Federal criminal defense attorney David Oscar Markus periodically interviews famed trial lawyers about their most fascinating cases for his podcast, "For the Defense." This week, he featured Michael Tigar, published several times by Monthly Review. Markus introduces the episode: "Michael Tigar is exactly what action is all about... I mean, in 1999 there was a vote for lawyer of the century: Clarence Darrow was #1, Thurgood Marshall was #2, and you know who was #3?"

Reason for common cause: A review of “The Robbery of Nature,” from Against the Current

Reason for common cause: A review of “The Robbery of Nature,” from Against the Current

February 20, 2024

"Foster and Clark show that the exploitation of wage labor in the capitalist production process is essentially tied to the expropriation of the natural world, the refusal to socially acknowledge care labor as socially necessary labor, the privatization of our common cultural heritage, the treatment of non-white communities as places where the social pathologies of capitalism (unemployment, poverty, and so on) can be concentrated, and so on. From this perspective workers, environmentalists, feminists, community activists, and anti-racists have good reason to make common cause."

“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19

“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19

February 20, 2024

Author Rob Wallace made a decision: His new book Dead Epidemiologists would take a personal approach. How could it not? While he introduces his work through this intimate lens, Wallace's perspective is global, tracking "the implications of capitalist agricultural production, distribution and consumption that is harming the web of life...."

Patnaik on Neoliberalism to Neofascism (Listen: Alternative Radio)

Patnaik on Neoliberalism to Neofascism (Listen: Alternative Radio)

February 20, 2024

From Modi’s India to Erdogan’s Turkey neofascist autocratic regimes have taken hold...The result: widespread immiseration and discontent. In its wake, demagogues exploit the situation. They are coming to power by scapegoating, instigating violence against minorities, coupled with loud calls for 'getting our country back,' and lots of flag waving...

“Washington Bullets” offers hope: People’s World on Vijay Prashad’s new book

“Washington Bullets” offers hope: People’s World on Vijay Prashad’s new book

February 20, 2024

The 20th century saw a wave of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, national liberation movements transform the world, often with the aid of Soviet, Eastern European, and Cuban Communists. Just as often, these revolts against the old world–the racist, sexist world of subjugation and oppression of entire peoples–were violently suppressed.... Unfortunately, historically, inevitably right-wing opposition takes the shape of bullets–bullets emanating from Washington!...

The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu, author of “From Commune to Capitalism”

The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu, author of “From Commune to Capitalism”

February 20, 2024

Matt and Christian, hosts of Cosmonaut, join Zhun Xu, author of From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty for a discussion on China’s communes from their construction to their dismantling. They contextualize land reform globally, elaborate on how the Chinese land reform process looked different from the Soviet one, discuss how the communes looked and functioned, and what services they provided as well as their achievements and their points of failure....

Extraordinary Achievements: Don Fitz’ “Cuban Health Care”

Extraordinary Achievements: Don Fitz’ “Cuban Health Care”

February 20, 2024

Comparing the health systems of Cuba and the United States, Don Fitz' book "Cuban Health Care" presents a startling statistic: The cost of healthcare per person in Cuba is one twentieth that of the US. "Why?" Peter Arkell asks, and Fitz answers: “Poor countries simply cannot afford such an inefficient health system"...

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