Too often, food and agriculture have been left out of left-wing political discourse, as if peripheral to the class struggle. But actually, they are crucial. Family and peasant farmers need to be able to feed themselves and their families, while workers need nutritious diets too. However, capitalism needs a supply of landless labourers who have nothing to sell but their labour power … | more…

This is the first of eight parts of Farooque Chowdhury’s review of this book for Frontier: An independent weekly since 1968. Look for the rest of the review, in compiled form, coming soon to MR Online… | more…

Combining meticulous scientific narrative with devastating economic analysis, The Biofuels Deception argues that the seemingly innovative, hopeful campaign for “green energy” is actually driven by bio-technology industries and global grain-trading corporations. These corporate players are motivated by a late-capitalist need to cope with a crisis of accumulation; they have no real interest in mitigating climate change, alleviating poverty, or even creating “clean” energy…. | more…

The subtitle, Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy, is a straightforward summary of Saito’s argument. He challenges the repeated criticism, since the 1970s, of Marx for “Prometheanism”, or “hyperindustrialism”, an alleged naïve acceptance of the common 19th century idea advocating the complete human domination of nature. … | more…

What if more education doesn’t lead to more highly paid, skilled jobs? Gerald Coles, educational psychologist and author of Miseducating for the Global Economy, talks with Sasha Lilley of Against the Grain (94.1 KPFA) about our twenty-first-century global economy—and what corporations are doing to prevent our learning about it. | more…

With the fall of Soviet Union, the revival of Capitalism in China and upsurge of right-wing movements and governments in large parts of the world with the exception of few countries of Latin America, author’s basic concern is whether this neo liberal right-wing trend can be overcome in favour of socialist revival? And who is going to lead this revival… | more…

On September 18, at the Mumbai Press Club in Mumbai, India, some of Bernard D’Mello’s friends gathered to help launch D’Mello’s book, India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History. Watch this panel discussion, moderated by journalist Stephen Rego, of the ongoing issues surrounding India and the Naxalite movement. The panelists are Manoranjan Mohanty, author and Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi; John Mage, international lawyer and member of the Monthly Review Foundation’s board of directors; and, of course, author and journalist, Bernard D’Mello. | more…

The world is awash in the blood of innocents. Nothing makes this clearer than Gerald Horne’s recently published The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, which puts the genocide of indigenous Americans at about 90 percent of their population’s total. | more…

As the world burned this summer, as millions starve or go short of food around the globe, and as the quality of life for the majority of the population in the western countries tumbles and staggers, asking how we can change things for the better becomes an increasingly critical question…. | more…

Since working-class voters have been made responsible for everything from Brexit to the rise of the far right across Europe to Trump in office, the left has rediscovered class. Among the many contributions made to relevant debates in the past two years, some have been very good, some very bad, and many very confused. This text is about one of the best…. | more…

In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates wonders if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class. If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location—to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. | more…

The Michael Tigar Papers website provides a glimpse of Tigar’s career and life. It is organized around a digital collection of papers that Tigar donated to the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. It also includes excerpts from an oral history that the Rapoport Center conducted with him…. | more…

Michael E. Tigar, author of the forthcoming Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power, returns to Law and Disorder Radio to talk with Michael Steven Smith about the work facing movement lawyers: to expose top-down myths about racism, criminal justice, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights that dominate legal ideology. | more…