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Socialist Worker talks to Ian Angus about Saving the Planet
February 20, 2024
How can we save the planet and stop catastrophic climate change? Recently, Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System and the recently released A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism, talked to Socialist Worker‘s Dave Sewell about just that.
Gerald Horne talks to Utrice Leid via the Progressive Radio Network
February 20, 2024
Historian Gerald Horne, author of over 30 books, including the forthcoming "The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean," talks to veteran news anchor and analyst, Utrice Leid about some of the major trouble spots in the world today and their connections to U.S. globalist agendas.
London: Ian Angus on the Anthropocene and Ecosocialism at Marxism 2017 Festival
February 20, 2024
Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System and, more recently, A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism, speaks at the Marxism 2017 Festival in central London, July 8, 2017. (Questions and answers follow.)
Gerald Horne on the NAACP’s travel advisory for Missouri
February 20, 2024
Thinking of going to Missouri? Think again. Gerald Horne, author of several books on the history of racism and injustice in the Americas, including the forthcoming The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, talks to Sharmini Peries of The Real News Network about the NAACP’s first statewide travel advisory, for the state of Missouri. ¶ “Not only may we be returning to the bad old days of Jim Crow and US apartheid, but we may be going beyond that to the era of 1857 Dred Scott…”
Eve of Destruction…Or Revolution? Counterpunch reviews Creating an Ecological Society
February 20, 2024
‘In order to replace capitalism with an ecological society we need a revolution.’ That modest sentence is how Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams begin the last chapter of their new book. Although the chapter is the end of the book, it is also an opening to a new direction, a new movement. It is also the essence of the entire text. Capitalism is the reason our biosphere is collapsing and the only way humanity and the rest of earth’s species can survive is by ending capitalism….
Baltimore, August 22: Howard Ryan Brings Educational Justice to Red Emma’s
February 20, 2024
In or around Baltimore Tuesday, August 22? Come to Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse and hear Howard Ryan talk about his book, Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut
Embedding the narrative of slavery in the classroom: Gerald Horne speaks to Truthout’s Chris Steele
February 20, 2024
Historian Gerald Horne, author of over thirty books, including the forthcoming The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, talks to Chris Steele on students’ need for the histories of resistance
“Refreshing and timely”: Marx & Philosophy reviews Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
February 20, 2024
Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism is a collection of essays written between 1990 and 2015 on Soviet and Russian history…. ¶ At first glance, the title might appear to be backwards, as the socialist Soviet Union no longer exists and the capitalist Russian Federation has been deemed to be its successor on the world stage. However, it is from this juncture that Amin asks the reader to look towards the future as a way to analyse the present in comparison with the past, rather than looking back at the past to better understand the present and the possible future. In short, the author’s aim is to juxtapose the future of communism (as a higher mode of production) against the present in comparison with Russia’s past
“The most important book…in years is John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century”–OffGuardian review
February 20, 2024
That first chapter goes on to consider two other products, iPhones and coffee. These too are produced in the global south for consumption in the north. Although very different products, Smith’s teasing out of the socioeconomic relations they embed shows their commonality. All are created under conditions of a super-exploitation which mainstream economics is at pains to conceal or obscure by a ‘value chain’ orthodoxy that would have us believe an iPhone made in China for $80 retails in the west for $800 not through exploitation but because the activities of shipping, advertising and packaging add $720 of value….