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“Slaughter in Vietnam Haunts Bob Kerrey’s Appointment to Fulbright University”—John Marciano via Truthout.org

“Slaughter in Vietnam Haunts Bob Kerrey’s Appointment to Fulbright University”—John Marciano via Truthout.org

February 20, 2024

The struggle over memory and truth about the Vietnam War continues. It reemerged in May when President Obama announced the opening of Fulbright University in Vietnam, and that Bob Kerrey would chair the board of trustees. Fulbright is the first private university in Vietnam, with ties to the Kennedy Center at Harvard and the US State Department. What does this recent appointment and the controversy surrounding it teach us about the War in Vietnam?

New! The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? by John Marciano

New! The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? by John Marciano

February 20, 2024

On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years—through November 11, 2025—commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 3 million Vietnamese—soldiers, parents, grandparents, children—also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated.

John Bellamy Foster on Why He and Paul Burkett Wrote Marx and the Earth: an interview with Junge Welt

John Bellamy Foster on Why He and Paul Burkett Wrote Marx and the Earth: an interview with Junge Welt

February 20, 2024

Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, is the author of several books MRP books, including The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. Recently, with Paul Birkett, he wrote Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Brill Publishers), to be released in the U.S. December 13. John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Christian Stache from the Berlin-based daily, Junge Welt.

Alan Wieder talks to Rag Radio about Studs

Alan Wieder talks to Rag Radio about Studs

February 20, 2024

Alan Wieder, author of Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation, talks to Rag Radio‘s Thorne Dreyer about Studs Terkel, the great leftist broadcaster, author, and raconteur.

The Politics of the Right reviewed in Race & Class

The Politics of the Right reviewed in Race & Class

February 20, 2024

When it was made, Socialist Register’s decision to devote its 2016 issue to the far Right was prescient; when published late last year it was more than timely. Now, both it and this review are in danger of being overtaken by the phenom- enon they’re describing. If the far Right was on the march in 2015, its progress is even more alarmingly visible now.

“Ideas for the Struggle”: 12 essays by Marta Harnecker

“Ideas for the Struggle”: 12 essays by Marta Harnecker

February 20, 2024

Marta Harnecker, author of over eighty books and monographs in several languages, including A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-First Century Socialism, wrote 12 articles on political activism and revolutionary vision, published in Venezuela in 2004. These articles were revised and updated this year, and now appear, translated by Federico Fuentes, on the Old and New Project website, with an introduction by the editors

If We Can’t Stop a Pipeline, How Can We Overthrow Capitalism?: Facing the Anthropocene reviewed by Green Left Weekly

February 20, 2024

We are living in a time of unparalleled ecological breakdowns and the crisis is much worse than most people realise. There are other books that tell this harrowing story, but Ian Angus’s Facing the Anthropocene is different…. Angus makes clear that ‘a 4°C world would not just be warmer: almost all the world will be thrust into a new climate regime’. It would mean today’s record-breaking temperatures would become the new normal… Unlike many of the other recent books published about the Anthropocene, Angus’s book devotes a lot of space to exploring the social and economic causes of the crisis.

Big Farms Make Big Flu an “important polemic,” says ResoluteReader

Big Farms Make Big Flu an “important polemic,” says ResoluteReader

February 20, 2024

The media is a fickle beast, so coverage of potential epidemics of diseases veers between the apocalyptic to nonexistence. As an outbreak occurs we hear about the potential terrifying consequences of the disease, combined with graphic details of the symptoms and frequently pictures of large numbers of dead animals. Rob Wallace‘s new book is an important polemic that argues that we, as a society, should be a lot more concerned about the potential for disease to decimate the human population

New! Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

New! Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

February 20, 2024

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union also produced a movement away from capitalism—a long transition that continues today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia—and, by extension, the future of socialism itself.

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