February 20, 2024
With Covington Catholic High School students offering a fresh example of the embodied ideologies of capitalism–like racism, patriarchy, and ecological destruction–we turn to theories of working-class solidarity….
February 20, 2024
Michael Joseph Roberto, author of The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940, talks to Frank Stasio, host of The State of Things, about American-made fascism and what may happen, now that “American empire is on its last legs…
February 20, 2024
In October 2018, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that carbon emissions must be cut to zero by 2050, in order to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.1 The current British (non-binding) target for 2050 is an 80% cut. ...
February 20, 2024
In the New York City area this weekend? You’re invited to hear Stephanie J. Urdang discuss her memoir, Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa
February 20, 2024
Recently, Gerald Horne, renowned historian and prolific author, talked with Ka’Bu Maat Kheru, host of “The Africa Forum: Running African” about his book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. They begin by discussing the importance of Jamaica in colonial history.
February 20, 2024
Michael Joseph Roberto’s recently published The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940, is generating lots of provocative conversations. Recently Roberto talked with Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report about how finance capitalism is the essence of U.S. fascism.
February 20, 2024
Leo Panitch, editor, with Greg Albo, of the annual Socialist Register, joins Allen Ruff, host of “A Public Affair” on radio station WORT (89.9FM, Madison, WI) to talk about global capitalism and the state of our world today, as reflected in the latest SR 2019: The World Turned Upside Down?
February 20, 2024
Fasanella’s father delivered ice to people in his Bronx neighborhood and his mother worked in a neighborhood dress shop drilling holes into buttons. In her spare time, she was an anti-fascist activist. The family’s experience informed his art just as Michael Yates’s working class roots and long career as a labor activist and educator shapes his latest book...
February 20, 2024
Howard Watizkin, author, with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, spoke about his life and his work, December 4, at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine Colloquia Series...
February 20, 2024
There is much discussion on the left about the connections and relative importance of class, race, gender, and the environment. Some, like political scientist Adolph Reed, take a class-first approach and criticize those who place an emphasis on race and gender as engaging in an identity politics that often shades into support for the neoliberalism that has wreaked havoc on working people for the past several decades....
