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“From Marx to Ecosocialism”–Michael Löwy on new books by Kohei Saito and Victor Wallis

February 20, 2024

There is a growing body of ecomarxist and ecosocialist literature in the English-speaking world, which signals the beginning of a significant turn in radical thinking. Some Marxist journals, such as Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, Monthly Review and Socialism and Democracy have been playing an important role in this process, which is becoming increasingly influential. The two books discussed here—very different in style content and purpose—are part of this “Red and Green” upsurge….

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.

“A World Turned Upside Down?” Leo Panitch on WORT’s “A Public Affair”

February 20, 2024

Leo Panitch, editor, with Greg Albo, of the annual Socialist Register, joins Allen Ruff, host of “A Public Affair” on radio station WORT (89.9FM, Madison, WI) to talk about global capitalism and the state of our world today, as reflected in the latest SR 2019: The World Turned Upside Down?

FORUM reviews Howard Ryan’s “Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut”

February 20, 2024

Preparation and militancy, though essential, don’t guarantee success. In Oklahoma and Kentucky, union leaders cut a poor settlement to end the dispute over the heads of those teachers who took action. Gains in one school, or in a city, or even across a state, can only be provisional absent wider changes in the political field. Hence the need for a vision of society which will consolidate and build from such gains, as Howard Ryan articulates…

UE News looks at Michael Yates’s new book–and how working people can still change the world

February 20, 2024

If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the problems facing working people on seemingly every front, economist and labor educator Michael Yates has written a timely book. In Can the Working Class Change the World? he makes the case that the working class — and only the working class — can indeed overcome economic inequality, eliminate racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, and meet the challenge of environmental degradation and climate change….