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For a new post-capitalist world: ResoluteReader reviews “The Biofuels Deception”

February 20, 2024

On March 15 2019 up to 1.5 million students walked out of class to demand action in the face of looming environmental catastrophe. In the UK one of the most popular slogans was “System Change not Climate Change” reflecting the protesters’ feelings that capitalism and its politicians had failed them. As Marxist writers like John Bellamy Foster and Ian Angus have shown, capitalism is at heart, a system that puts the accumulation of wealth above the general interests of people and plane

Russian-bashing is nothing new: The Palestine Chronicle looks at “The Russians Are Coming, Again”

February 20, 2024

The mainstream media continues to harvest all the disinformation it can concerning the relationship between Trump and Putin and the character of Putin himself, not to mention the overall generalizations about the state of Russia and the kind of people Russians are. ...

“George Orwell said the world’s bureaucrats couldn’t take spring from us, but they are”–The Guardian and John Bellamy Foster on Climate Change

February 20, 2024

As the sociologist John Bellamy Foster noted back in 2002, Orwell’s beloved toads are now vanishingly rare, with some 200 different species of amphibians driven to extinction in the last few decades…

The Progressive Populist reviews Michael Tigar’s “Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power”

February 20, 2024

Myths that enhance private and state power are blooming in the current political moment. Take President Trump’s case for a ‘national emergency’ at the Mexico-US border. ¶ There is a history here. Author Michael E. Tigar unpacks it, though sparing ink on the 45th president…

The Future Cannot Be Capitalist: Michael Yates talks about the Working Class on Radio WFHB

February 20, 2024

With Covington Catholic High School students offering a fresh example of the embodied ideologies of capitalism–like racism, patriarchy, and ecological destruction–we turn to theories of working-class solidarity….

American-Brand Fascism: Michael Joseph Roberto on NC Public Radio

February 20, 2024

Michael Joseph Roberto, author of The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940, talks to Frank Stasio, host of The State of Things, about American-made fascism and what may happen, now that “American empire is on its last legs…

UK’s Communist Review Faces Ian Angus’s Anthropocene

February 20, 2024

In October 2018, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that carbon emissions must be cut to zero by 2050, in order to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.1 The current British (non-binding) target for 2050 is an 80% cut. ...

February 9, NYC: Join Stephanie Urdang at the Riverside Book Club

February 20, 2024

In the New York City area this weekend? You’re invited to hear Stephanie J. Urdang discuss her memoir, Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa

Gerald Horne on Jamaican Radio recounts the apocalyptic loss and misery behind settler colonialism

February 20, 2024

Recently, Gerald Horne, renowned historian and prolific author, talked with Ka’Bu Maat Kheru, host of “The Africa Forum: Running African” about his book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. They begin by discussing the importance of Jamaica in colonial history.

Michael Joseph Roberto, author of “The Coming of the American Behemoth,” on The Majority Report

February 20, 2024

Michael Joseph Roberto’s recently published The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940, is generating lots of provocative conversations. Recently Roberto talked with Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report about how finance capitalism is the essence of U.S. fascism.