Category: Monthly Review Press Blog

September 17: Howard Waitzkin comes to Portland, Maine with Health Care Under the Knife

February 20, 2024

As a lifelong activist, Howard Waitzkin has worked for single-payer national health programs in the United States and Latin America; local community and worker control for accessible health services; civilian health and mental health services for active duty military personnel in the struggle for peace; and policies to improve the social, political, and economic determinants of illness and early death….

October 1: Dr. Waitzkin makes house calls in Albuquerque, wielding Health Care under the Knife

February 20, 2024

Monday, October 1, Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, will be in Albuquerque, NM, giving two presentations based on his book, and extending a discussion of today’s ailing medical system: what’s wrong, how it got this way, and what we can do to heal it.

Howard Waitzkin talks with Bill Ayers about Health Care Under the Knife … and so much more

February 20, 2024

On April 17, Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, came to Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstore to take part in a Fresh Ayers discussion about capitalism and the health care crisis with the eponymous Bill Ayers

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

February 20, 2024

David G. Legge is a teacher and international health policy researcher, based at La Trobe School of Public Health in Melbourne, Australia, who is also active in the global People’s Health Movement. Recently, he wrote a review of four books for the journal Critical Public Health. Three of these books, Health Care Under the Knife; A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism; and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, were published by Monthly Review Press.

June 5: Howard Waitzkin comes to Bluestockings on NYC’s Lower East Side

February 20, 2024

If you’re in New York City June 5, please come to Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center and share your post-Left Forum letdown with Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health.

Gerald Horne on The Majority Report with Sam Seder

February 20, 2024

Historian and prolific author Gerald Horne talks with Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report, a popular daily political internet show, about one of Dr. Horne‘s latest books, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean.

“Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better”: Gerald Coles via Counterpunch

February 20, 2024

Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, it’s time to look for another answer, this one at the neurological level. Poor children’s malfunctioning brains, particularly their brains’ “executive functioning”–that is, the brain’s working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control–must be the reason why their academic performance isn’t better….

Why Ours Is a Key Moment in Time: Socialism & Democracy on Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

February 20, 2024

Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
144 pp, $23 pbk, ISBN 9781583676011
By Samir Amin
Reviewed by Mat Callahan in Socialism and Democracy, vol. 32, no. 1, pp 174-77

“A Terrific Book”: Socialism & Democracy reviews Union Power by James Young

February 20, 2024

This is a terrific book. It deserves to be read carefully by both scholars and activists. In seven well-written chapters, James Young explores the emergence, struggles, victories and setbacks of a radical, democratic union, one that confronted powerful adversaries in the business, labor, and faith-based communities throughout the mid and late twentieth century.

An Important Message from John Bellamy Foster

February 20, 2024

In the 1990s, high tech firms and their mainstream media boosters proclaimed that the Internet and digital technology would unleash a new era that would destroy monopolies, liberate democratic impulses, and usher in what Bill Gates called “frictionless capitalism.” From the first, Monthly Review’s assessment was different. We foresaw instead the ways that the communications revolution would generate monopoly power on a scale never seen before.