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How Jazz Survived White Supremacy: Gerald Horne talks to Truthout about “Jazz and Justice”

How Jazz Survived White Supremacy: Gerald Horne talks to Truthout about “Jazz and Justice”

February 20, 2024

Certainly, being a ‘jazz’ musician in the first decades of the 20th century was probably the most dangerous profession in the arts and, along with coal mining, one of the most dangerous jobs of all. Inhaling cigarette smoke in dank clubs, being plied with alcohol and other controlled substances by unscrupulous bosses of clubs and record labels alike, being attacked violently by racist ‘fans’

New! “Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism”

New! “Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism”

February 20, 2024

Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy – Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Intan Suwandi’s Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains—vast networks of people, tools, and activities needed to deliver goods and services to the market and controlled by multinationals—Suwandi offers a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx’s own theory of exploitation.

“A little Trot”: Socialist Review looks at Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

“A little Trot”: Socialist Review looks at Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

February 20, 2024

One point to make about Helena Sheehan’s political odyssey—from a conservative Catholic upbringing, through the radicalism of the US left in the 1960s and early 70s, on to Official Sinn Fein and the Communist Party of Ireland, and then into the Irish Labour Party—is that it demonstrates the importance of the theory of state capitalism for revolutionary politics….

Robbery of the soil and the worker: International Socialism on Saito’s “Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism”

Robbery of the soil and the worker: International Socialism on Saito’s “Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism”

February 20, 2024

“Kohei Saito’s book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism is based on extensive and ­painstaking research. As well as Marx’s published works, Saito makes use of notebooks that Marx kept on science and agriculture and that have only recently been made available. He argues that ecological questions were central to Marx’s worldview and defends a version of ecosocialism based on the notion of metabolism, and using the Marxist tools of value theory, contradiction and alienation….

ROAR magazine reviews “The Coming of the American Behemoth”

ROAR magazine reviews “The Coming of the American Behemoth”

February 20, 2024

But there exists a different narrative, or at least there did in the 1930s, before it was buried under an avalanche of patriotic American propaganda and liberal historiography. According to this alternative understanding, the US was falling victim to fascism already in the 1920s — though a different sort of fascism than in Europe…

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