Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1942 – 2016
February 20, 2024
Ellen Meiksins Wood, noted political theorist and socialist historian, author of a number of books and a professor at York University for three decades, has died of cancer at her... READ MOREMonthly Review Press
The Hidden Structure of Violence and the APA’s rethinking of Guantánamo
February 20, 2024
For over a decade, the American Psychological Association colluded with the Pentagon and CIA in endorsing and participating in torture as part of national security interrogations and forced feeding at... READ MORE
A World to Build reviewed in COUNTERFIRE
February 20, 2024
The reason for socialists to have an interest in the situation in Latin America today is simple; the most significant political advances in the world today are taking place in Latin America. The Chilean revolutionary Marta Harnecker’s book A World to Build is perhaps the most important English language attempt so far to analyse and to move forward the discussion on the left internationally around these changes.
Race to Revolution reviewed in Journal of American History
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne's latest book is an ambitious transnational history of the United States and Cuba from the 1700s to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It focuses on the shared and interconnected histories of slavery, the slave trade, Jim Crow, and the struggles against these oppressive systems in the two regions.
Reconstructing Lenin reviewed in A World to Win
February 20, 2024
Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography By Tamás Krausz 552 pp, $34 pbk Reviewed by Corinna Lotz “… So what shaped Lenin to become the man he did? Krausz firmly places... READ MORE
Marx’s Ecology reviewed by the Freedom Socialist
February 20, 2024
Many environmentalists disdain the ideas of Karl Marx. Some tout the spiritual virtues of environmental ‛ideals.’ Some argue for individual solutions like recycling, reduced consumption and “going back to the land.” Anti-communists claim that the ecological crimes of the Stalinist-era USSR flowed from Marxism itself. John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature counters all these ideas. It is a dense and intricate analysis of Marxist theory, its historical and scientific foundations, and how central ecological concerns are to it.
February 3! Gerald Horne to Speak, Sign Books at Eso Won Books, LA
February 20, 2024
If you're in Los Angeles, please stop by
Eso Won Bookstore
4327 Degnan Blvd., LA, CA 90008
Wednesday, February 3, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Revealed! A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
February 20, 2024
The working class of Cuba played a much more decisive role in the Revolution than previously understood. Steve Cushion contends that significant portions of the Cuban working class launched an underground movement in tandem with the guerrillas operating in the mountains. From illegal strikes to sabotage to armed conflict with the state, workers' efforts helped clinch the Revolution's victory. A fresh and provocative take on the place of the working class in Cuban history.
Rage, Rebellion, Revolution … Register? Check out this year’s Left Forum
February 20, 2024
Left Forum is the largest annual gathering of the broad Left in the United States. Each year thousands of conference participants come together to discuss pressing local, national, and global issues; to better understand commonalities and differences, and alternatives to current predicaments; or to share ideas to help build social and political movements to transform the world. Left Forum 2015 drew 4,000 participants for 400 panels and events. Recent speakers include Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, Slavoj Zizek, Marina Sitrin, Amy Goodman, Immortal Technique, and Grace Lee Boggs.
Politics of the Right “essential reading” —The Progressive Populist
February 20, 2024
Far-right forces are on the move in and out of the US. Socialist Register 2016: The Politics of the Right, edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo, delivers crisp analyses of this trend.... A recurring theme in the book is the process of political centrism drifting to the right. This move enhances authoritarianism, a cultural feature of modern politics in the post Sept. 11 era.... Hard right politics dovetails with policing of national minorities. Lesley Wood outlines three related trends: “intelligence-led policing, community policing and strategic incapacitation protest policing,” which confront movements such as Black Lives Matter, pushing back for public control over this state function.