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Culture as Politics reviewed by Helena Sheehan in Marx & Philosophy

Culture as Politics reviewed by Helena Sheehan in Marx & Philosophy

Christopher Caudwell was a brief and breathtakingly brilliant presence in the world. Born Christopher St John Sprigg in London in 1907, he published prolifically and died fighting in the Spanish civil war in 1937, before he even reached the age of 30….

Barbaric Production: Gerald Horne Discusses Slavery, Capitalism, and White Supremacy on This is Hell!

Barbaric Production: Gerald Horne Discusses Slavery, Capitalism, and White Supremacy on This is Hell!

Historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, talks to Chuck Mertz about his book — and our history — on This is Hell!, which broadcasts every Saturday, 9AM-1PM (CDT) on WNUR 89.3FM Chicago and podcasts to the world shortly after.

Chicago, April 27-29: Rosa Luxemburg, Engaging the Left; Impacting the World

Chicago, April 27-29: Rosa Luxemburg, Engaging the Left; Impacting the World

April 27-28, 9AM-8PM | April 29, 9AM-1PM
UE Hall, 37 S Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60607
Free and Open to the Public
Speakers include: Michael Löwy (France), Helen Boak (England), Radhika Desai (Canada), Pablo Slavin (Argentina), Drucilla Cornell (USA), Zhang Meng (China), Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (India), Ottokar Luban (Germany), Ankica Čakardič (Croatia), and many others

Chicago, April 17: Howard Waitzkin on Health Care Under the Knife via FRESH Ayers

Chicago, April 17: Howard Waitzkin on Health Care Under the Knife via FRESH Ayers

If you’re in Chicago Thursday, May 17, you’re invited to FRESH Ayers, a discussion series on various books, conducted by Bill Ayers, social justice activist, author, and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Education (retired) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This event features MRP author Howard Waitzkin, who’ll talk with Bill about his latest book, Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond the Capitalism for Our Health.

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?

Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview

Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview

Nyeusi U. Jami, host of Revolutionary African Perspectives (WRFG 89.3 FM, Atlanta), talks with Gerald Horne in a four-part interview, about his recent book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. In part five, the conversation turns to matters involving Dr. Horne’s 2014 book, Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow

Rethinking Democracy, SR 2018 reviewed by Counterfire

Rethinking Democracy, SR 2018 reviewed by Counterfire

This latest addition to one of the most prestigious journals on the left is a timely examination of the relationship between socialism and democracy. Decades of Stalinist distortion in Eastern Europe still leave a residual notion in the minds of many that these two concepts are, in fact, antithetical. Throughout the era of the cold war, the Western states propagated the related idea that only capitalism was capable of securing the individual freedoms that are synonymous with the idea of democracy….