February 20, 2024
Scholar, author, journalist, and host of KPFA Radio’s “Africa Today,” Walter Turner talked recently with Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and author of several books, most recently, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, about–among other things–embedded questions of class in America’s long history of racism. Listen, below, or at Africa Today
February 20, 2024
Jordan Camp, host of The New Intellectuals, a monthly online program produced for the People’s Forum in New York City, talks to historian and author Gerald Horne about Dr. Horne’s new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
February 20, 2024
Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, talks to Afshin Rattans, host of RT’s Going Underground, about how, in recent history, deforestation and land use changes driven by global capital have caused more epidemics, and why the emergency response to the latest Coronavirus is ineffective at solving problems such as deadly pathogens…
February 20, 2024
Dr. Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, spoke to Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman, hosts of By Any Means Necessary, via Radio Sputnik, Washington DC, about the “incomplete” narrative of Juneteenth embraced by the political establishment, the role of class collaboration in the construction of white supremacy in the US, and why corporate moves to dispose of racist iconography reflect the growing power of the anti-racist movement. Listen to the whole show, or begin with Gerald Horne, at hour two…
February 20, 2024
Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine and Catalyst journal, joins Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston, to discuss the police brutality that led to the Watts rebellion in 1965 and how its legacy can be understood in light of today’s recent events. Watch, below or at Jacobin (Also keep in touch with Jacobin‘s ongoing live-stream lectures)
February 20, 2024
Brandon Sankara, host of radio station KFPK’s “Freedom Now,” talks to “everyone’s favorite living library,” Dr. Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, about international responses to the murder of George Floyd and the condition of African Americans today in general..
February 20, 2024
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism is at once a primer on the world’s dominant economic structure and a broad analysis of the food system that it has created. Eric Holt-Giménez persuades his readers that fluency in capitalism is essential to anyone seeking to effect change within the food system…
February 20, 2024
For five days in 1919, union members took control of the city of Seattle. They arguably ran it better, and certainly more justly, than it had ever been run before. ¶ Thousands of workers volunteered to keep Seattle’s essential services operating. People were fed at 21 different locations; on February 9, volunteers served more than 30,000 meals. Milk distribution was organized at 35 locations. Garbage was picked up. No crime was reported during these five days…. ¶ Contrast Seattle 1919 with today’s unfolding horror. We’re all witnessing what it looks like when a shutdown and the provision of essential services are administered by capital and a pro-corporate government. ¶ The Seattle General Strike was not just an event in labor history. It was a testament to what workers can achieve when they organize, and it has sharp lessons for today….
February 20, 2024
Can the Working Class Change the World? is not written suddenly. Throughout the last decade, capitalism has been increasingly discussed and debated, both by the right and left wing. This is because many people are struggling with economic downturn, wide income gap, unemployment, poverty and environmental crisis. The Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, almost brought down the global financial system. Later in 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement began and spread to several countries to protest against the 1%. And in 2018, Ray Dalio, a multibillionaire who is also the founder of Bridgewater Associates, himself admits that capitalism does not function for most people. Today, the assets of the 26 richest individuals in the world is equivalent to the assets of half the world’s citizens (Elliott, 2019). But, if capitalism now has failed, the question is: who fix it?
February 20, 2024
This is a law book written for a general audience. Tigar has been a law professor most of his life; in these pages one can learn much from his vast legal and historical knowledge. ¶ Multiple chapters are spread out over five “mythologies”: Racism, Criminal Justice, Free Expression, Worker Rights and International Human Rights. ¶ His discussion of these mythologies is not neutral; he has a point of view and it’s generally from the left….
