Monthly Review Press

Health care beyond neoliberalism?–Social Theory & Health reviews “Health Care Under the Knife”

Health care beyond neoliberalism?–Social Theory & Health reviews “Health Care Under the Knife”

That capitalist medicine prioritises the generation of surplus value over the health of populations should be obvious to any critical student or scholar in the field, but where Waitzkin and colleagues depart from this basic assumption is in demonstrating the political economy of health in the current phase of neoliberalism where, for example, the processes of financialization have eclipsed material production….

Victor Grossman: From Harvard to East Berlin, via Jacobin

Victor Grossman: From Harvard to East Berlin, via Jacobin

The first book I wrote was published in East Berlin and talked about my life in the United States right up until the first days of my defection to the GDR in 1952. It was called The Way Across the Border. The funny thing is, some people in the GDR bought it thinking that I was talking about going in the other direction—they thought it would help them jump the Wall from East to West...

KPFA: Africa Today talks to Gerald Horne about “Jazz and Justice”

KPFA: Africa Today talks to Gerald Horne about “Jazz and Justice”

Walter Turner, host of Africa Today, broadcasting weekly from Berkeley radio station KPFA, recently talked with historian Gerald Horne about one of his latest books, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. Please note that their conversation took place during a KPFA pledge drive, which is now over — although you’re more than welcome to support the station (and Africa Today) anytime…