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“The revolutionary life and times of Ruth First, and her legacy” by Ronnie Kasrils

February 20, 2024

Ronnie Kasrils, activist and the author of The Unlikely Secret Agent, the story of his wife as an underground agent for the African National Congress, recently wrote about anti-apartheid leader Ruth First, who was killed by a letter bomb on August 17, 1987. Kasrils's article about First, commemorating the 38th anniversary of her death, is based on a lecture he presented on 23 August 2020. It first appeared in Umsebenzi Online, an online voice of the South African working class...

Red Library’s Cosmopod considers Kohei Saito’s “Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism”

February 20, 2024

Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left offers a program called the "Lost Futures Series." In the latest podcast, Comrade Adam (a.k.a. Chairman Bane) joins podrades Remi and Niko from Cosmonaut's Ecology Cast series to discuss Kohei Saito's Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. Included in the conversation: the concept of metabolism, Marx's evolution of thought on ecology being the core realm of capitalist crisis, agricultural chemistry, the role of a Marxist ecosocialist perspective to stop the destruction of capital across the planet, and more...

Coastal fires, George Jackson, fascism: Gerald Horne on Diasporic Music/BlackPower96

February 20, 2024

If you’re living in a settler-colonialist society–which is virtually all of the Americas–the seeds of fascism have been implanted because of the violent uprooting of the Indigenous population that helps to create a culture of mega-violence… They really drank the kool-aid with regard this idea of the United States being this democracy with a sturdy constitution…

“Trump’s ‘Patriot Education’ whitewashes racist, imperial US history”: Gerald Horne on PUSHBACK with Aaron Maté

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, radical historial and prolific author—most recently of The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century—talks to... READ MORE

Gerald Horne on The Katie Halper Show

February 20, 2024

Historian Gerald Horne appeared recently on The Katie Halper Show and talked to Katie Halper and her cohost Jack Allison about Dr. Horne's latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. They discuss racism, class-consciousness, Trumpism, 2020, the Supreme Court and the creation of White Supremacy...

Trump’s ‘Patriotic Education’ a Call for White Supremacy and Fascism: Gerald Horne talks to Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news

February 20, 2024

1619 vs. 1776? Trump’s recent speech attacking the New York Times 1619 Project and vaunting his own "1776 Project" is an attempt to rally his base, writes journalist Paul Jay, to create a McCarthyite campaign against the left, and devise conditions for hanging on, even if Trump loses the election. Hear historian and author Gerald Horne's on take on all this, as he joins Paul Jay on theanalysis.news podcast...

CubaSi reviews Don Fitz’s “Cuban Health Care: the Ongoing Revolution”

February 20, 2024

After the triumph of the Revolution, Cuba set phenomenal goals, the biggest of all being the remaking of its medical system as a free service for all: health as a human right. Don Fitz comprehensively charts the 61 years that transformed Cuba’s health service into one of the best in the world, where people are placed at the very heart of the system...

Stephanie Urdang speaks at SACP’s panel “Gender Equality and Women’s Emancipation: Lessons learned…”

February 20, 2024

Stephanie J. Urdang, South African anti-apartheid activist, gender specialist, journalist, and author--most recently of Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa--spoke recently on a panel sponsored by the Jack Simons Party School of the South African Communist Party, on "Gender Equality and Women's Emancipation: Lessons learned from the struggle against Portuguese Colonialism." Watch, below, or on Facebook

New! “Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations”

February 20, 2024

While vaunting itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, has become a superpower by infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries all over the world. Washington Bullets is about U.S. imperialism—the bullets sent by various Washington, DC administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders—to destroy hope....

New York Labor History Association reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle”

February 20, 2024

The Seattle General Strike lasted only five days, but people have been fighting over what it means for a hundred years. Cal Winslow raises this discussion to a new level. Sticking close to the workers themselves, he shows us why the strike matters....