“Suspense and dramatic interest” (Radek reviewed in ‘Socialism and Democracy’)
February 20, 2024
"...works brilliantly to create suspense and dramatic interest in that the reader is asked to see the world through the eyes of its main protagonist..."
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“Pathbreaking…an ideal teaching tool for college classes” (A Land With A People reviewed for ‘Socialism and Democracy’)
February 20, 2024
Aside from being an ideal teaching tool for college classes, this book, with its combination of poetry, personal statement, and rueful self-examination would make for an engrossing theatrical performance....
NEW! SOCIALIST REGISTER 2023 (EXCERPTS)
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...
Listen: “Ending the Myth” podcast (Co-author of Dissenting POWs interviewed on ‘Mechanical Freak’)
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.
The Caribbean Philosophical Association grants the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award to Gerald Horne
February 20, 2024
The Caribbean Philosophical Association has announced that the 2023 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award will has gone to Professor Gerald Horne.
“Stimulating…much to grapple with” (Capitalism in the Anthropocene reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)
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".
‘To Liberate Ourselves, We Must Reinvent Work’ (Work Work Work reviewed by ‘The Bullet’)
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....
Listen: Have you dreamt of a world…. (An interview with Michael D. Yates about Work Work Work on Heartland Labor Forum)
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...
Decriminalize the “underclass”
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.
WATCH! MR Conversations: !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War
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....