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Confronting Black Jacobins author Gerald Horne interviewed on BLOCKREPORTRADIO.com

February 20, 2024

BlockReportRadio.com interviews author and professor Dr. Gerald Horne about his new book, Confronting Black Jacobins. We discussed the Haitian Revolution, the origins of the Dominican Republic, and the doubling in size of the United States. We talk about Haiti's role in abolishing slavery in the western world. We talked about the role that Washington, London, Paris, and Madrid played in warring with the abolitionist nation. We talked about how Haiti and the U.S. both had plans to relocate U.S. Negroes to the Dominican Republic, at different times for different reason. We also talked about the dilemma that the U.S. was in, when it dealt with Haiti, and much much more...”

Imperialism in the 21st Century reviewed in Counterpunch

Imperialism in the 21st Century reviewed in Counterpunch

February 20, 2024

The world is in crisis. Capitalism, currently the only economic system in existence, is the cause of this crisis. It is a crisis that impoverishes millions more every year while enhancing the wealth of the rarefied few who conspire with politicians to make it so. It is a crisis that manifests itself in endless and meaningless wars. It is a crisis that dismantles schools, hospitals, roads, and other infrastructure in the name of private profit....This is the premise of John Smith’s newly-published work, titled Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century. It is an important, even crucial, work.

Paramilitarism & the Assault on Democracy in Haiti reviewed in HTN

Paramilitarism & the Assault on Democracy in Haiti reviewed in HTN

February 20, 2024

Jeb Sprague examines how Haitian and transnational elite groups sponsored paramilitary violence during the late twentieth and early twenty-first century in order to crush the democratic aspirations of Haiti’s popular classes and forestall democratic and redistributive reform.... As part of his research for the book, Sprague analyzed more than 11,000 documents accessed through Freedom of Information requests. He also conducted more than fifty interviews with various officials, victims, and death squad leaders, sometimes at considerable risk to his own safety as the introduction shows. In doing so, Sprague gives us a thorough account of how paramilitary forces have been developed in Haiti, and the networks that support them.

New! Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century

New! Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century

February 20, 2024

By John Smith Winner of the first Paul A. Baran–Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award John Smith’s Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis is a seminal... READ MORE
Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1942 – 2016

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 MORE

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