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Urgently rethinking our relationship with the natural world: Where to start? (Listen to Foster interviewed on New Books Network)

Urgently rethinking our relationship with the natural world: Where to start? (Listen to Foster interviewed on New Books Network)

February 20, 2024

The product of several decades of research, this is a book accessibly written but rigorously researched with footnotes meticulously collected for those looking for a jumping off point through various archives. It reveals a hidden history of the relationship between science and sociology, between economics and nature and gives us characters who were able to see the seeds we were sowing, but also an unyielding faith that it doesn’t have to be this way…

Beyond the “two-state” v. “One State” debate (‘A Land With A People’ reviewed in MLT)

Beyond the “two-state” v. “One State” debate (‘A Land With A People’ reviewed in MLT)

February 20, 2024

How do we get there? The text notes the role of U.S. imperialism and the imperialism of other capitalist powers in promoting Israel’s domination of Palestinians. The leadership role of Palestinians, first, and secondarily, of Jews, in the anti-Zionist struggle is evident in this volume. However, it will take a broad anti-imperialist movement supported by the working class of the capitalist countries if Zionism is to be defeated…

Foster on ‘The Marx Revival’

Foster on ‘The Marx Revival’

February 20, 2024

On Saturday, May 7th John Bellamy Foster will present on the ecology section of “The Marx Revival” (Cambridge University Press), alongside Marcelo Musto, who will present the Communism section of the book. The event is co-sponsored by the Marxist Education Project and Shelter and Solidarity.

Antifascism on the “home front” (Horne and the Criterion Collection)

Antifascism on the “home front” (Horne and the Criterion Collection)

February 20, 2024

During the Red Scare, a telling phrase came to describe some who had been clamoring for more demonstrative anti-Hitler manifestations before the U.S. entered the war in late 1941: “premature antifascists.” Outside a narrow wartime period, antifascist convictions were now seen from a postwar vantage as suspect, evidence of Communist loyalty. Now forgotten is that there was an offshoot of this tendency: one whose adherents we might call “premature antiracists”….

The Persecution of Paul Robeson (Horne, on ‘The Chris Hedges Report’)

The Persecution of Paul Robeson (Horne, on ‘The Chris Hedges Report’)

February 20, 2024

When you defy the imperial, capitalist American state, when you denounce the crimes done to its own people, especially the poor, immigrants, and African Americans, as well as the crimes it commits abroad, when you have a global audience in the tens of millions that admires and respects you for your courage and integrity, when you cannot be intimidated or bought off, then you are targeted for destruction….

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