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Capitalism and Racism Entwined: Gerald Horne on Black Agenda Report

February 20, 2024

"If you want to understand why Black Lives don't Matter under the current system, look to the events of five hundred years ago," says historian and University of Houston African American Studies professor, Gerald Horne. Drawing from his most recent book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, Dr. Horne speaks with Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report about these five hundred years--and their impact on our lives today...

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...

“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

“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...

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....

Green Social Thought reviews “Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution” by Don Fitz

February 20, 2024

Don Fitz’s new book Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution was going to press at Monthly Review in early spring, as the pandemic was ramping up, so he had just barely enough time to slip in a postscript teasingly titled, “How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19.” The postscript puts an exclamation mark on the medical history of Cuba that Fitz takes us through in the 240 compelling pages that come before. Based on that history, one would have expected Cuba to take early, decisive actions to stem the pandemic, and Fitz says that’s exactly what happened....