Category: Monthly Review Press Blog

Not a Simple Story: The Stansbury Forum reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle”

Not a Simple Story: The Stansbury Forum reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle”

In December of 1997 I was hired by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to become their first Director of Organizing. At its International Convention in Hawaii in June of that same year the union had decided to dedicate 30% of its revenue to organizing and build out a department…. When we got to the dock in West Seattle, I stepped off the launch, lost my footing and fell halfway into the drink. Great start for an Organizing Director! ¶ Cal Winslow’s important book Radical Seattle reintroduces me to the region through the lens of the history of one of labor’s great moments, the Seattle General Strike of 1919….

The COVID Heroism of Cuban Doctors: CP reviews “Cuban Health Care” by Don Fitz

The COVID Heroism of Cuban Doctors: CP reviews “Cuban Health Care” by Don Fitz

With Covid-19 roaring through the U.S., now is a good time to discuss Cuban health care. It’s about as different from the American variety as possible. It is not for profit. It is socialized. It does not first resort to expensive medical technology. Its doctors live among the people, like in Haiti after the earthquake, not in luxury hotels, like American doctors. It does not rely on the thinking that there is a pill for every ailment. It is successful. Cuba has suffered 88 deaths from covid, and the 3408 infected people have not gone bankrupt receiving care…

Rx for socialists battling pessimism: Marx & Philosophy reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

Rx for socialists battling pessimism: Marx & Philosophy reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

Furnishing the Marxian critique of capitalism with contemporary examples drawn from not only the US experience, but the global condition and struggles of the working-class, Yates provides a compelling argument for why the answer is affirmative. Not only can the working class change the world; it must–‘there really is no choice’. This book puts paid to any suggestion that such sentiments are utopian….

NBA Players Resolved to Fight Systemic Racism: Gerald Horne on theAnalysis.news

NBA Players Resolved to Fight Systemic Racism: Gerald Horne on theAnalysis.news

Gerald Horne: Pardon the expression, but it may be a game-changer. What I mean is, these athletes have a lot of social, and potentially political capital. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, the top player in the league, has about 47 million Twitter followers. These players have a very strong union. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the ownership team of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, and of course, those Milwaukee Bucks who are now leading this protest, the ownership team basically endorsed the protest….

Gerald Horne on Radio Sputnik’s “By Any Means Necessary”

Gerald Horne on Radio Sputnik’s “By Any Means Necessary”

Hosts Sean Blackman and Jacqueline Luqman are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, to talk about his new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, why the police lynching of George Floyd isn’t a ‘bug’ but a ‘feature’ of a system fundamentally based on settler-colonial violence, and how white supremacy manifests in the bipartisan imperialist aggressions of US foreign policy.