Don Fitz taught Environmental Psychology at Washington University and Fontbonne University in St. Louis and was a research psychologist at St. Louis State Hospital for 25 years. He’s also the author of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution. He recently spoke about his book to Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, host of the podcast Radio Free Sunroot… | more…

This is a remarkable political autobiography: of an academic, now Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Dublin City University in Ireland, who nevertheless in both achievement and self-conception, has always been more than ‘just’ an academic… | more…

The United States continues to be the only fully industrialized nation that lacks a public healthcare system, a feature of modern ‘democracy’ that is taken for granted in most developed countries. Most American proponents of healthcare reform typically cite the models utilized by Canada, Western Europe, or Australia as the most appropriate guides for the implementation of universal healthcare in the United States. However, Don Fitz, a Green Party activist, provides a comprehensive overview of a model for reform that originates from what many would consider to be a surprising place…. | more…

Join Rob Wallace, author of Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19 and Mike Davis, author of The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism for a 90-minute online conversation, hosted by Sabrina Fernandes (Brazil) and Ian Angus (Canada). Questions encouraged… | more…

Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, has also written several books, most recently, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations. He appears on the Friday, Oct. 9 edition of Democracy Now! to discuss with host Amy Goodman the breaking news that the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the U.N. World Food Programme. “I couldn’t be happier… This hunger pandemic is paralyzing perhaps 2.7 billion people,” says Prashad. “What could only make me happier, Amy, is if, next year, the Cuban doctors win the Nobel Peace Prize…” | more…

The Robbery of Nature draws on and develops the theories of Marx and Engels to understand why capitalism has such a destructive influence on the natural world. Central to Fosters and Clark’s argument is that, under capitalism, human beings and the natural environment are the original sources of wealth, but it is only the labour of workers that generates value…. | more…

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some bravely descended into the caves where bat species hosted coronaviruses, including the strains that evolved into the COVID-19 virus. Yet, despite their own warnings, many of the researchers appear unable to understand the true nature of the disease—as if they are dead to what they’ve seen… | more…

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… | more…

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… | more…

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… | more…

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 Aaon Maté, host of PUSHBACK, independent media show, presented by The Grayzone, challenging the forces that make and shape the news. Watch, below, or at The Grayzone.

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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 | more…

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…. | more…