Fred Magdoff & John Bellamy Foster in NYC on October 22
February 20, 2024
Join the authors of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism at the Brecht Forum in New York City, 6 PM, October 22, 2011.
Monthly Review Press
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Samir Amin on 9.11 [video]
February 20, 2024
Noted world-systems theorist Samir Amin provides a deep perspective on the last ten years—from 9.11 to the Arab Spring—by tracing the historical trajectory of world capitalism and posing the question: are we ending the crisis of capitalism or ending capitalism in crisis? Recorded live in Cairo and first broadcast at the Brecht Forum in New York City on September 11, 2011. Moderated by Biju Mathew.
Links review of The Ecological Rift
February 20, 2024
Climate change is often called the greatest environment threat facing humanity. The threat is very real. Unless we cut carbon pollution fast, runaway climate change will worsen existing environmental and social problems, and create new ones of its own. But it’s no longer enough to simply refer to the climate crisis. Climate change is one part of a broader ecological disaster, brought about by an economic system that relies on constant growth, endless accumulation, and ever-deepening human alienation.
New additions to MR Press Classics series
February 20, 2024
Check out these classic titles by Lucio Colletti, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Karl Korsch, Gordon K. Lewis, Nikolai Bukharin, and Ernest Mandel, available now!
NEW: The People's Lawyer by Albert Ruben
February 20, 2024
Just released! There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending the rights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Center for Constitutional Rights has not played a central role. Whether defending the rights of black people in the South, opponents of the war in Vietnam, and victims of torture worldwide, or fighting illegal actions of the U.S. government, the CCR has stood ready to take on all comers, regardless of their power and wealth. When the United States declared that the Constitution did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, the CCR waded fearlessly into battle, its Legal Director declaring that “My job is to defend the Constitution from its enemies. Its main enemies right now are the Justice Department and the White House.”
The Socialist Alternative reviewed in Third Rail magazine
February 20, 2024
Michael A. Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, begins his new book, The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, by paraphrasing Marx, “A specter is haunting the world – the specter of barbarism.” The barbarism Prof. Lebowitz speaks of is, of course, the yoke of capitalism and depths that it sinks people into in order to satisfy its insatiable greed. The point of this book is to put forth an argument for the necessity of Socialism in the twenty-first century, and the need to focus on human development. Actual human development, not the all consuming hunger of false needs and consumerism that capitalism thrives on and denies the work force.
Open Veins of Latin America video discussion
February 20, 2024
From PressTV, Ken Livingstone, Alan Knight, and Javier Farje discuss Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
John Marsh, author of Class Dismissed, in Inside Higher Ed
February 20, 2024
In March, the new governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, announced a 2011-12 budget that, when combined with the loss of federal stimulus money, would reduce funding to public schools by $1.2 billion dollars, and funding to higher education by $649 million. My own institution, Pennsylvania State University, stood to lose $169 million, or about 51 percent of its state appropriation. As our president, Graham Spanier, pointed out, such cuts “would be the largest percentage reduction to public higher education in this nation’s history.”
John Marsh’s op-ed for the NY Daily News
February 20, 2024
It is not every day that the U.S. secretary of education charges a professor with “insulting all of the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country.” But in the cutthroat world of education reform, the daggers have come out. The professor, Diane Ravitch of NYU – who once shared educational reformers’ love for school choice, charter schools and accountability – has in recent years come to oppose them.
The National Science Teachers Association recommends The Science & Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
February 20, 2024
Stephen Jay Gould was a renaissance man of the 20th century. Not only was he a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist but he was known to many readers for his ability to popularize science, interpreting and explaining the intricacies of the field to the lay person.