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Watch Jane Franklin launch Cuba & the U.S. Empire

On April 27, MRP author Jane Franklin, aided by Sandra Levinson, discussed her new book, Cuba and the U.S. Empire: A Chronological History at the Center for Cuban Studies in New York City.

La Marseillaise interviews MRP author Salim Lamrani about Cuba

La Marseillaise interviews MRP author Salim Lamrani about Cuba

Author of The Economic War Against Cuba and Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality, Salim Lamrani is a university professor who specializes in relations between Cuba and the United States. In this interview, he turns to the issue of human rights, a point of divergence between the two countries. The United States accuses Cuba of not respecting human rights, while Cuba demands a change in the criteria.

Henry Giroux, via Truthout: “Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times”

Henry Giroux, via Truthout: “Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times”

Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that matters is about business; poverty is now viewed as a technical problem; thought chases after an emotion that can obliterate it. The presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Donald Trump, declares he likes "the uneducated"—implying that it is better that they stay ignorant than be critically engaged agents—and boasts that he doesn't read books. Fox News offers no apologies for suggesting that thinking is an act of stupidity....

C-SPAN: Gerald Horne on Confronting Black Jacobins & Paul Robeson

C-SPAN: Gerald Horne on Confronting Black Jacobins & Paul Robeson

April 15, Baltimore, at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse: Gerald Horne discusses his latest two books: Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.

Left Forum this Weekend: 400 Panels, 1200 Speakers … and YOU!

Left Forum this Weekend: 400 Panels, 1200 Speakers … and YOU!

Come to the 2016 Left Forum!
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W 59th St., NYC 10019
Drop by the Monthly Review book tables!
Pick up discounts on new books, classics, the Monthly Review magazine, the Socialist Register, and Merlin Press books!

Watch Left Forum Panel: Imperialism in the 21st Century

Left Forum, Saturday, May 21, New York City: John Smith, author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis, John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, Intan Suwandi, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, discuss the accumulation of capital, cheap wage goods, and the super-exploited workers of the Global South.