Facing the Anthropocene via Socialist Review
February 20, 2024
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System 280 pp; $19 pbk 9781583676097 By Ian Angus Reviewed by Camilla Royle “The idea that we are in… READ MORE
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May 9, Brooklyn! Hear Bill Fletcher & Chip Berlet on The Rise of the Right in the United States
February 20, 2024
Bill Fletcher (Longtime labor and social justice activist, host of The Global African TV show author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor
and Chip Berlet (Award-winning investigative journalist, author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort will discuss the rise of the right
Coming May 14 & 15 to a flat-screen near you: MRP author Gerald Horne on C-SPAN!
February 20, 2024
Saturday, 14 May, 8:45 PM EDT & Sunday, 15 May, 1:30PM EDT C-SPAN will present a talk by Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian… READ MORE
“Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic”: Jeb Sprague-Silgado on electing the DR’s next President
February 20, 2024
Jeb Sprague-Silgado, is the author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti. His article, “Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite versus the Elite,” appeared in NACLA, May… READ MORE
Henry Giroux, via Truthout: “Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times”
February 20, 2024
Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that matters is about business; poverty is now viewed as a technical problem; thought chases after an emotion that can obliterate it. The presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Donald Trump, declares he likes “the uneducated”—implying that it is better that they stay ignorant than be critically engaged agents—and boasts that he doesn’t read books. Fox News offers no apologies for suggesting that thinking is an act of stupidity….
C-SPAN: Gerald Horne on Confronting Black Jacobins & Paul Robeson
February 20, 2024
April 15, Baltimore, at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse: Gerald Horne discusses his latest two books: Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
SPOILER: Christopher Wright “really likes” Facing the Anthropocene
February 20, 2024
May 13, Sydney, Australia: Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, spoke at the international launch of Ian Angus‘s book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil… READ MORE
Left Forum this Weekend: 400 Panels, 1200 Speakers … and YOU!
February 20, 2024
Come to the 2016 Left Forum!
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W 59th St., NYC 10019
Drop by the Monthly Review book tables!
Pick up discounts on new books, classics, the Monthly Review magazine, the Socialist Register, and Merlin Press books!
Fear is Our Forté: Progressive Populist reviews America’s Addiction to Terrorism
February 20, 2024
Islamic State bombings in Brussels and Paris are headline news. Henry A. Giroux goes beyond that violence and the fear it generates for the back story of lawless wars, cold, hot and obscured in America’s Addiction to Terrorism.
The Life and Times of Karl Marx, in the words of Ronnie Kasrils
February 20, 2024
Ronnie Kasrils, activist, intellectual, and author of The Unlikely Secret Agent, recently wrote a paper, picked up by South Africa’s Daily Maverick, in which Kasrils discusses Karl Marx and what… READ MORE