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Cal Winslow reflects on the Seattle General Strike of 1919

February 20, 2024

Cal Winslow, author of Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919, talks to Sasha Lilley, host of KPFA’s Against the Grain:
While the United States is in the throes of upheaval over police murders, we take a historical look back at another time of great social ferment: a century ago, when the workers of Seattle shut that city down. The first major general strike in the United States coincided with the last widespread pandemic — the Spanish influenza….

This Is a Reckoning: Gerald Horne talks protests, reparations, & fascism on little cat feet

February 20, 2024

Radical historian and author of the forthcoming The Dawning of the Apocalypse Gerald Horne speaks with Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas, hosts of Political Misfits...

Gerald Horne: Political crisis deepens as Trump threatens military crackdown on protest movement

February 20, 2024

Protests are nothing new in American society. And protests for racial justice are certainly nothing new. But has America not learned any lessons from the civil rights movement? Have we learned nothing from decades of the police clashing with peaceful marchers? Why is this still happening in America in the year 2020? Why are our police departments militarized and so willing to use violence against citizens?...

BELABORED: Cal Winslow talks to Michelle Chen and Sarah Jaffe about Radical Action–in 1919 and Now

February 20, 2024

Our talk about the organization of the working class in Seattle—including the tensions over organizing black and Japanese workers alongside white ones—explored the question of what it means when, for a little while, the working class runs the city. Because that’s what happens during a general strike. And it is happening now....

Lifting The Shroud: Pandemic Capitalism & the Uprisings of 2020–Gerald Horne

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, radical pundit and prolific author, talks to Patrick Farnsworth, creator and host of Last Born in the Wilderness, examining “the material conditions that have precipitated the uprisings across the United States the past week, in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th.... Dr. Horne frames the wave of uprisings across the nation within a deeper and broader context of previous uprisings (e.g. the Watts Riots of the 1960s in Los Angeles and the nation-wide uprisings that occurred after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.), and points to the impacts the ‘Long Sixteenth Century’ had in the formation of white supremacy, as explored in his book The Dawning of the Apocalypse....

Gerald Horne: US Prof. asks Iranian friends to assist Americans in abolishing culture of slavery

February 20, 2024

“Trump,” says Horne, “is fueling the protests. He is a cornered beast right now and a beast is most dangerous when it is cornered….”

It’s About Time America Reckons With Its Racist Founding: Gerald Horne, via The Real News Network

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, radical historian and author of dozens of books including the forthcoming The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, talks to Jaisal Noor of The Real News Network about the eruption of demonstrations across the United States--and around the world--protesting the murder of George Floyd and countless people of color by police. Watch, below, or at The Real News

Unprecedented attention to history, geography, background figures: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières reviews “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society”

February 20, 2024

The first volume of Michael Heinrich’s biography of Karl Marx, if any indication of the two volumes yet to come, signals a genuine event in the understanding of Marx and his work. With it, the terrain for understanding all aspects of Marx’s life has likely changed fundamentally....

The 15-year rising: Truthout reviews Fred Wilcox’s “Shamrocks and Oil Slicks”

February 20, 2024

Fighting fossil fuel companies can be dangerous business. The people of County Mayo, Ireland, found that out when they rose up against Shell Oil in the early 2000s. The uprising lasted 15 years. Protesters were beaten and jailed. But they delayed the refinery’s opening by 10 years, cost Shell billions of dollars and caused the company a public relations nightmare, as a new book by Fred Wilcox, Shamrocks and Oil Slicks, recounts....

The Real News talks to Dr. Gerald Horne about Finding Hope During The COVID-19 Pandemic

February 20, 2024

Jaisal Noor, of The Real News Network, talks to Gerald Horne, historian and author of the forthcoming The Dawning of the Apocalypse about fighting for basic rights amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the increasingly catastrophic government response to it. Is there any reason to hope, given the dire economic outlook and two unappealing options at the ballot box in November?