February 20, 2024
Yates takes a decidedly unorthodox approach. He spends a fair amount of time explaining the importance of reclaiming common spaces and “commoning” practices....
February 20, 2024
"It's the best program we have probably adopted in this country, certainly beloved by many people. But I wanted to say this to our audience, that -- much of our audience is younger than I am -- this is going to sound, on its face, boring, but this is one of the most important shows that we've done for you."
February 20, 2024
On this recent spot on "Cosmonaut," Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina discuss communes in both urban and rural settings, and their role in the transition to socialism, the questions around oil and the economy, the economic problems of the revolution, the shadows of bureaucratization, the differences between the cities and the countryside and possible way forward for the revolution.
February 20, 2024
Zhun Xu, author of "From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty," spoke alongside Chris Matlhako, Elias Khalil Jabbour, and Bikrum Gill on a panel titled, “Political Economies of Chinese Socialism.”
February 20, 2024
'Radical Seattle' identifies the IWW as a catalyst for the germination of a class consciousness that encouraged individual laborers to recognize a kinship in their struggle and respond collectively.
February 20, 2024
It is a promising thing when a book titled Can the Working Class Change the World? feels current amid national and global upheaval, despite having been published two years ago....
February 20, 2024
I read this gorgeous, furious book while teaching the first half of the U. S. history survey: 1607–1877....In this book as well as its recent antecedent, 'The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean,' Horne turns to examine the earlier foundations of empire and racial capitalism. Unlike much of his other work, these books are primarily secondary-source–driven. But Horne is that historian, as skilled in the pyrotechnics of historiographical revision as he is at archival spelunking.
February 20, 2024
In a discussion of the new book, "Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts Against Venezuel," Justin Podur clarifies: What they're doing in Colombia is what they say is happening in Venezuela..."
February 20, 2024
A moment in which tens of thousands of workers are on strike — at John Deere, at Kellogg’s, at Warrior Met Coal—might seem like a strange time to talk about a “right” to strike. But a legal right to strike must include the right to return to the job when the strike is over — win, lose or draw — and U.S. workers haven’t had that right since corporations and Ronald Reagan’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conspired to weaponize a long-dormant Supreme Court decision to legalize union-busting...Strikes are contagious.
February 20, 2024
"Sensing Injustice" is a modern history of American legal practice....
