Monthly Review Press

Socialist Review looks at “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

Socialist Review looks at “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

February 20, 2024

Michael D Yates, author of Why Unions Matter (1998), dedicated most of his academic and professional career to studying labour and social movements in the US. Through his latest work, Yates contends that the working class must change the world or humanity will succumb to the barbarity of capitalism. His warning must be taken seriously because we live in a world prone to wars and global economic crises, among other evils…

The fiction that the light is “white”: on Gerald Horne’s “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism”

The fiction that the light is “white”: on Gerald Horne’s “The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism”

February 20, 2024

Political analysis, alas, is no less immune to what has been called the ‘fashion system’ than any other segment of human consumption habits since the end of the Great War bequeathed the industrial form of indoctrination that prevails—now in digital form—today…. Yet the misery to which the vast majority of humanity is subjected has been altered only minimally since 1492 gave the Roman Catholic and later Protestant elites in Europe the impetus to seize the rest of the planet, dominating the world’s population and the rest of nature…

Michael Yates talks to David Barsamian on Alternative Radio

Michael Yates talks to David Barsamian on Alternative Radio

February 20, 2024

Warren Buffett, the much-admired genius investor and one of the world’s richest men said, ‘There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.’ And who are the losers? The working class, people who work for an hourly wage or are salaried…. Can the working class, long taken for granted by the Democratic Party, be a force for positive progressive change? How might it overcome its own internal divisions and contradictions?

Robin Morgan talks with Stephanie Urdang about what’s going on in South Africa

Robin Morgan talks with Stephanie Urdang about what’s going on in South Africa

February 20, 2024

Robin Morgan, poet, author, and political theorist, hosts a weekly, hour-long, nationally syndicated radio show based at the Women’s Media Center. On May 12, she talked with Stephanie J. Urdang, South African journalist, activist, and author of Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa, about the recent election and 25th anniversary of South African liberation.

Ronnie Kasrils on South Africa and Palestine, comparing one apartheid to another…

Ronnie Kasrils on South Africa and Palestine, comparing one apartheid to another…

February 20, 2024

Ronnie Kasrils, South African anti-apartheid activist, former South African Minister for Intelligence Services, and author of The Unlikely Secret Agent, appears on RT to talk with Afshin Rattansi, host of Going Underground, about current South African life, the ANC, and how, regarding the current Palestinian struggle, one apartheid compares to another…

Newsletter sign-up

Keep up to date with all the latest socialist news from MR