February 20, 2024
The 59th annual volume of the "Socialist Register" examines the growth of corporate power and other important organizational trends in global capitalism. Rejecting such notions as “stakeholder capitalism,” it reviews the organization and strategies of unions and the left as it searches for new routes to socialism. Read on for excerpts from the likes of Adam Hanieh, Patrick Bond, Charmaine Chua and Spencer Cox...
February 20, 2024
The podcast Mechanical Freak, recently welcomed esteemed sociologist Jerry Lembcke to talk about how the memory of the Vietnam War was both recreated and used in the 1980s and 1990s to unify public sentiment against the liberatory movements of the 1960s. Lembcke reminded the audience that even in the creation of memory, there is a political struggle for the future that needs to be waged.
February 20, 2024
The Caribbean Philosophical Association has announced that the 2023 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award will has gone to Professor Gerald Horne.
February 20, 2024
Foster explains that "in general we can expect the Global South to be the site of the most rapid growth of an environmental proletariat, arising from the degradation of material conditions of the population in ways hat are equally ecological and economic".
February 20, 2024
Yates provides an excellent critique of unions today and insists on a radical critique of, and alternatives to, the current reliance on social democratic parties....
February 20, 2024
After a lifetime of activism, Yates is that rare thing: a defiantly unreconstructed Marxist faithful to self-evident truths whose enthusiasm for prosecuting working-class struggle with every weapon at our disposal is undimmed.
February 20, 2024
Foster gave the annual Engels Memorial Lecture jointly to the Marx Memorial Library and the Working Class Movement Library....
February 20, 2024
Have you dreamt of a world where your job gives you fulfillment and respect? Where income inequality and discrimination have disappeared? Where we have health care for all? Michael Yates has dreams of such a world too...
February 20, 2024
The goal of this event is to emphasize the importance of uniting the working class to fight for equal rights for all in order to raise working and living conditions beyond mere survival. Participants are encouraged to join the discussion and contribute their own experiences in how the declining conditions for workers of all trades have impacted their lives, what they see as the limits of reformism, and how the underclass and super-exploited can play an important role in leading the fight to end exploitation.
February 20, 2024
To start us off, author Miguel Ferguson shares an inspiring, humorous story about Abraham Lincoln Brigade member Abe Osheroff, one of the thousands of American volunteers that played their part in the Spanish Civil War....
