February 20, 2024
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
February 20, 2024
History…is not a peacefully flowing river, but made up of different moments, separated by tumultuous rapids’ (134). When the USSR broke apart in 1991, an unprecedented ideological campaign was launched, propagating the idea that Soviet collapse implied the collapse of the socialist project as a whole. The ‘end of history’ was said to be at hand. ¶ Amin’s critical reading of Russian history de-bunks this myth, with the compact prose and theoretical precision that is characteristic of Amin’s many writings...
February 20, 2024
Since the collapse of Eastern European “socialism” and the Soviet Union, the prospect to transcend capitalism has been lost in obscurity. ¶ However, what happened once can happen again, and “since the ‘end of history’ did not occur in 1989, one need not be a prophet to foresee that the need for the revolutionary salvation of the world will arise again” ...
February 20, 2024
Monthly Review Press is offering a 50% discount on selected books about work, workers’ rights, and labor unions—both print and electronic (when available)—starting May 2, and ending midnight May 9,... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
A new book aimed at the socially conscious food activist explores how our food system can be a place for transformation through an alliance between the progressive and radical wings of the food movement. ¶ As advocates for a just food system, most of us try to live by our beliefs. Shopping at the farmers markets: Check. Buying local and grass-fed: Check. We rail against Big Food, yet don’t dare, or bother, to look too far beneath the surface …. We are walking, kale-stuffed characters out of Portlandia, better-intentioned than informed. After all, what are we really doing to change the system?…
February 20, 2024
“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?
February 20, 2024
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
February 20, 2024
Historian and author Gerald Horne and The Real News Network host Paul Jay discuss Marx’s theory of historical materialism and how, in order to fight injustice today, people need to know the economic roots that give rise to, and perpetuate, inequality.
February 20, 2024
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….
February 20, 2024
Author and activist Stephanie J. Urdang will return to her birthplace, Cape Town, South Africa, for two launches of her memoir, Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa...
