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The Hidden Structure of Violence reviewed in ISRA

The Hidden Structure of Violence reviewed in ISRA

February 20, 2024

This book should be of interest to anyone constructing an understanding of the causes of violence, particularly as fed by the power motive and influenced by hidden psychological processes. It is a “must read” and a valuable reference for one’s personal library....
I used the 2008 book in my psychology of aggression class and my peace psychology class. I feel that book was one of the best resources I had and an education for our students. I am now making plans to use the 2015 book in adult learning classes.

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
Rage, Rebellion, Revolution … Register? Check out this year’s Left Forum

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

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.

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