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Why the working class counts: LA Progressive reviews Michael Yates’s new book

Why the working class counts: LA Progressive reviews Michael Yates’s new book

February 20, 2024

Radical economist Michael Yates grew up in a western Pennsylvania manufacturing town, later hard hit by de-industrialization. He spent more than three decades working as a college professor in his home state. Despite his career in academia and editorial role at Monthly Review, a seventy-year old project of socialist intellectuals, Yates never lost touch with the life experience of high school classmates, friends, neighbors, and relatives who toiled in blue collar jobs….

Science & Society reviews Kohei Saito’s “Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism”

Science & Society reviews Kohei Saito’s “Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism”

February 20, 2024

Amid the rising tide of books on Marx and ecology, this book stands out. Much of this work has been about whether Marx’s analysis of capitalism was a blind commitment to industrial society that has ignored natural circumstances and ecological crisis. Kohei Saito brings Marx’s ecological notebooks into the debate, rediscovers Marx’s environmental concerns and their relevance to the critique of political economy, and reinforces the argument that Marx saw environmental crisis embedded in capitalism….

American-Brand Fascism: Michael Joseph Roberto on NC Public Radio

American-Brand Fascism: Michael Joseph Roberto on NC Public Radio

February 20, 2024

Michael Joseph Roberto, author of The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940, talks to Frank Stasio, host of The State of Things, about American-made fascism and what may happen, now that “American empire is on its last legs…

UK’s Communist Review Faces Ian Angus’s Anthropocene

UK’s Communist Review Faces Ian Angus’s Anthropocene

February 20, 2024

In October 2018, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that carbon emissions must be cut to zero by 2050, in order to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.1 The current British (non-binding) target for 2050 is an 80% cut. …

Gerald Horne on Jamaican Radio recounts the apocalyptic loss and misery behind settler colonialism

Gerald Horne on Jamaican Radio recounts the apocalyptic loss and misery behind settler colonialism

February 20, 2024

Recently, Gerald Horne, renowned historian and prolific author, talked with Ka’Bu Maat Kheru, host of “The Africa Forum: Running African” about his book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. They begin by discussing the importance of Jamaica in colonial history.

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