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Gerald Horne via Truthout: “Fighting Fascism & White Supremacy by Understanding History”

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne: … I think that particularly with regard to students of African descent (but not exclusively students of African descent), it’s very important for them not to see Black people only in the role of slaves…. One of the many scandals of historiography in the United States is not dealing with that history, which I think leads to a misimpression that the slave population was inert, or as … Kanye West said, 400 years of slavery is “a choice.” Basically, I mean that kind of opinion comes clearly from this idea of presenting enslaved people as passive…”

New! India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History

February 20, 2024

Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world’s longest-running “people’s war,” and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance?

September 17: Howard Waitzkin comes to Portland, Maine with Health Care Under the Knife

February 20, 2024

As a lifelong activist, Howard Waitzkin has worked for single-payer national health programs in the United States and Latin America; local community and worker control for accessible health services; civilian health and mental health services for active duty military personnel in the struggle for peace; and policies to improve the social, political, and economic determinants of illness and early death....

October 1: Dr. Waitzkin makes house calls in Albuquerque, wielding Health Care under the Knife

February 20, 2024

Monday, October 1, Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, will be in Albuquerque, NM, giving two presentations based on his book, and extending a discussion of today’s ailing medical system: what’s wrong, how it got this way, and what we can do to heal it.

“Clever Corporate Criticism of U.S. Schools” — Gerald Coles in New Politics

February 20, 2024

U.S. capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the ‘hate’ side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail grade-level achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if they complete high school, do not have the academic qualifications for college and advanced-skills education....

An Important Message from John Bellamy Foster

February 20, 2024

In the 1990s, high tech firms and their mainstream media boosters proclaimed that the Internet and digital technology would unleash a new era that would destroy monopolies, liberate democratic impulses, and usher in what Bill Gates called “frictionless capitalism.” From the first, Monthly Review’s assessment was different. We foresaw instead the ways that the communications revolution would generate monopoly power on a scale never seen before.

“The Delusion of Deporting the Country’s Troubles Away by Banishing ‘Criminal Aliens’”: David L. Wilson via Truthout

February 20, 2024

David L. Wilson, with Jane Guskin, is the author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (2nd Edition). In his latest article for Truthout, Wilson asks, “Is there really any reason for the US government to deport non-citizens with criminal records?”

New! Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures

February 20, 2024

Just out! Gerald Coles’s Miseducating for the Global Economy provides a real education about the twenty-first-century global economy—and what corporations are doing to prevent our learning about it.

H-Net reviews James Young’s Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania

February 20, 2024

The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America—the unwieldy name is usually shortened to United Electrical Workers, or UE—occupies a significant niche in the history of the American labor movement....

“A powerful package of ideas in highly readable form” — Paul Buhle reviews The Russians Are Coming, Again

February 20, 2024

These days we see a seemingly odd project taking place in the realms of American liberalism: ferocious insistence that the truly outrageous Donald J. Trump is at his worst when….making peace with our enemies! Has he been brainwashed by Russian and/or North Korean agents, perhaps? Or is this all, perhaps, a crude plan to place Trump Steaks in Trump hotels in heretofore unbidden locations? What kind of madness would lessen the threat of American nukes that keeps us all as safe as we may reasonably hope to be?...