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The Progressive Populist reviews The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

The Progressive Populist reviews The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Colonies and the political economy are two sides of the same coin. In The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, historian Gerald Horne reveals the actors and factors behind the origin of a racial capitalism that haunts us now. ¶ It is no easy task, but Horne is up to it….

July 7: Howard Waitzkin comes to Beloit, WI to talk about Health Care Under the Knife

July 7: Howard Waitzkin comes to Beloit, WI to talk about Health Care Under the Knife

Howard Waitzkin, author, with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, will be in Beloit, Wisconsin Saturday, July 7 to discuss the U.S. health-care crisis — how we can rescue it and make it an integral part of a new and radically different society

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

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

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?...

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks about the New Cold War via Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks about the New Cold War via Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear

Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. The first Cold War was a tragedy. The new Cold War is playing out as a dangerous farce. That’s the thesis of Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano in The Russians are Coming, Again. Brian Becker and John Kiriakou speak with Kuzmarov, author and assistant professor of American history at the University of Tulsa.

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

David G. Legge is a teacher and international health policy researcher, based at La Trobe School of Public Health in Melbourne, Australia, who is also active in the global People’s Health Movement. Recently, he wrote a review of four books for the journal Critical Public Health. Three of these books, Health Care Under the Knife; A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism; and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, were published by Monthly Review Press.

The World We Wish to See reviewed by ANTI-IMPERIALISM.ORG

The World We Wish to See reviewed by ANTI-IMPERIALISM.ORG

“What to do?" A short question with a very complex answer. In The World We Wish to See, Samir Amin delves into the contemporary political conjuncture with a succinctness and ease that belies the monuments scope of the topic he addresses—how do counter-hegemonic movements find convergence in diversity, in an age when political lines are being redrawn and new issues are being raised, daily, hourly?