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Washington’s lethal war against the world: UK’s Morning Star reviews Prashad’s “Washington Bullets”

February 20, 2024

In Guatemala, Congo, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Haiti, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Yemen, Sudan, Grenada, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Angola and so many other countries, Washington’s bullets have been deployed in the pursuance of regime change, the protection of US hegemony and opposition to the emergence of truly sovereign post-colonial nations, all in flagrant violation of international law....

To ameliorate viruses of capitalism, eradicate capitalism itself: Counterfire on “Dead Epidemiologists”

February 20, 2024

To say that the Tory government’s response to Covid-19 has been disastrous is merely to state the obvious. Their unwillingness to take decisive action at the right time, coupled with their ability to contemplate tens of thousands of deaths with equanimity, has earned them a special place even in the annals of Tory incompetence and self-serving cynicism....

Gerald Horne on the Roots of White Supremacy, via Blog Talk Radio

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, author of the recently published The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talks to Greg Rasheed, host of Blog Talk Radio's The Root and Roots Show about the roots of white supremacy, begun in the 16th century, reaching all the way into the US Capitol on January 6 ... and beyond...

SR 2021: Ursula Huws on “Reaping the Whirlwind,” via Marxist Education Project

February 20, 2024

Sunday, January 31 @ 1:30pm-4:00pm: Join this online reading group and discussion of the most recent issue of Socialist Register dedicated to Leo Panitch. This first session begins with Ursula Huws' essay, "Reaping the Whirlwind: Digitalization, Restructuring, and Mobilization in the Covid Crisis." This work addresses the changes currently sweeping through global labor markets during the coronavirus pandemic....

“Planet Farm” … “Bidenfreude” — Keeping up with Rob Wallace

February 20, 2024

Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Big Flu and Dead Epidemiologists, has become an international pundit in the conversation about the rise and spread of global epidemics. Here are two of his latest articles on COVID-19 and beyond....

Engels on Ecology: Against the Grain talks to John Bellamy Foster

February 20, 2024

C. S. Soong, host of Against the Grain (KPFA/94.1 FM) talks with John Bellamy Foster, author, most recently, of The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. To what extent did Frederick Engels engage with environmental and ecological issues? When Engels wrote about the dialectics of nature, what did he mean by “dialectics”? According to Foster, Engels’s insights into ecology, dialectics, and the environmental conditions of the working class were, and remain, critically important...

Left Socialist Blog reviews “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society”

February 20, 2024

“'A man dressed like Karl Marx' Michael Heinrich observes 'would hardly arouse attention walking through the streets of Paris of London today.' Some biographers assert that Marx was a product of a past epoch, the early 19th century 'increasingly distant from our age.' (Jonathan Sperber 2013) By contrast the first volume of a projected account of Marx’s life sees his reflections on the 'epochal rupture' that created modern capitalism, to be, if more arresting than his clothing, recognisably part of today’s world....”

“Stop Centering White People”–Zillah Eisenstein via Portside

February 20, 2024

"Stop centering white people—there are so many other newer faces to see and they are already here..." Zillah Eisenstein, author, most recently, of Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution, has, in the wake of the presidential election, written "The New US: While Calling Out Trump White Women" for Portside, a leftist news aggregator and alternative communication medium...

Crafting a revolutionary healthcare system–NACLA reviews 2 books on Cuban Health Care

February 20, 2024

The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care, when read together, historicize Cuba’s pathbreaking medical system. ... While observers often focus on Cuba’s health infrastructure and policies, Rodríguez and Fitz instead emphasize consciousness and ideology. These two books show that throughout the twentieth century, Cubans voiced new demands and prioritized specific values, and, as a result, crafted a revolutionary healthcare system...

“Colossal intellectual undertaking”: Irish Marxist Review on John Bellamy Foster’s “The Return of Nature”

February 20, 2024

"John Bellamy Foster is a U.S.-based writer and lecturer whose works are essential reading for all revolutionaries and environmentalists. Over two decades, Foster has produced an immensely important body of work, and alongside a small number of others (like Ian Angus), has clarified and rescued Marxist thinking on key environmental issues in the age of climate catastrophe..."