EXCERPT: How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution
February 20, 2024
"Yes, there would be many painfully restrictive measures. But they would not be imposed by government decree, and they certainly would never be neoliberal...."
Monthly Review Press
Markets and tech won’t solve climate emergency… (Foster interviewed for “Truthout”)
February 20, 2024
as many have observed, for many people it’s easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Foster’s book tells us that we have a choice: “ruin or revolution.” The reason for the necessity of revolution is that tinkering won’t solve our problems. Technocratic fixes won’t save the Earth as a place fit for human habitation. The problem, as he told me in the interview that follows, is systemic....
Facing the Anthropocene reviewed in T-Paine’s Newsletter
February 20, 2024
...in rejecting the possibility of half measures and compromises, Facing the Anthropocene stands with The Value of a Whale as a crucial document in the necessary joining of the environmentalist and anti-capitalist movements and should be compulsory reading.
James Boggs’ “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Workers Notebook” (Black Agenda Report excerpts Chapter 6)
February 20, 2024
It is always a good time to revisit the writing of Detroit auto worker, activist, and author James Boggs . But as the diplomatic debacle of the Summit of the Americas unfolds in Los Angeles, his work seems especially relevant....
Watch: Andy Merrifield on Joyce, Marx, Lefebvre (The Marxist Education Project)
February 20, 2024
'Capital' was Marx's dreaming fargazing, his Here Comes Everybody, a condition, he thought, where all countries were headed, his image of everybody's future....
WATCH “MR Conversations: Anne Braden Speaks,” featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, Roz Pelles, and editor Ben Wilkins (Plus: EXCERPTS)
February 20, 2024
Stay tuned for more details: On July 18th, Ben Wilkins, the editor of Anne Braden Speaks and Director of Raise Up The South will be joined by Rosalyn Pelles of Repairers of the Breach and former Director of the National Rainbow Coalition during the Jesse Jackson campaign, and the renown public intellectual and author of Freedom Dreams.
Work work work – so a few can be rich (Yates published in “Counterpunch”)
February 20, 2024
...we are also the only commodity that can disrupt production and halt the flow of profits that makes growth possible. Workers have always protested their commodity status, rioting, forming labor unions, building political organizations, even fomenting revolution....
Grappling with “Capital’s” entirety: Not just for first-time readers (Heinrich reviewed by ‘Marx & Philosophy Review of Books’)
February 20, 2024
Heinrich’s close attention to the original German, contrary to many anglophone scholars, is another element of his textual approach that strengthens the accuracy of the interpretation.....to say that "How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital’" is not only for first-time readers may be to state the obvious. It is a commentary that is straightforward in its exposition and indispensable for beginners, yet still challenges those who have already long dedicated themselves to a study of 'Capital'....
The Return of Nature wins ASA’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award
February 20, 2024
MR editor John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020) was the recipient of the Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association for 2022...
Yes, &: The Lincoln Brigades vs. !Brigadistas! (A review by coeditor Paul Buhle, for ‘The Common Reader’)
February 20, 2024
War comics, with a democratic twist, seem to be coming of age … again. The Lincoln Brigade is a good if imperfect contribution.