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“Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism” Wins Deutscher Memorial Prize 2018

“Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism” Wins Deutscher Memorial Prize 2018

February 20, 2024

Named for the historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara, this prize is awarded each year for a book demonstrating “the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition.” Previous prize winners include Mike Davis, Robin Blackburn, Ellen Mieksins Wood, Eric Hobsbawm, and Monthly Review Press authors Michael A. Lebowitz, Tamás Krausz, Lucio Colleti, and István Mészáros.

FORUM reviews Howard Ryan’s “Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut”

FORUM reviews Howard Ryan’s “Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut”

February 20, 2024

Preparation and militancy, though essential, don’t guarantee success. In Oklahoma and Kentucky, union leaders cut a poor settlement to end the dispute over the heads of those teachers who took action. Gains in one school, or in a city, or even across a state, can only be provisional absent wider changes in the political field. Hence the need for a vision of society which will consolidate and build from such gains, as Howard Ryan articulates…

UE News looks at Michael Yates’s new book–and how working people can still change the world

UE News looks at Michael Yates’s new book–and how working people can still change the world

February 20, 2024

If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the problems facing working people on seemingly every front, economist and labor educator Michael Yates has written a timely book. In Can the Working Class Change the World? he makes the case that the working class — and only the working class — can indeed overcome economic inequality, eliminate racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, and meet the challenge of environmental degradation and climate change….

New! The World Turned Upside Down? | Socialist Register 2019

New! The World Turned Upside Down? | Socialist Register 2019

February 20, 2024

The World Turned Upside Down? poses overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. These questions are addressed through a series of essays that carefully map the national, class, racial, and gender dimensions of the state, capitalism, and progressive forces today. Sober assessment is crucial for the left to gain its political bearings in this trying period and the uncertainties that lie ahead.

“Is This the Moment for the Working Class?” –Counterpunch reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

“Is This the Moment for the Working Class?” –Counterpunch reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

February 20, 2024

Fasanella’s father delivered ice to people in his Bronx neighborhood and his mother worked in a neighborhood dress shop drilling holes into buttons. In her spare time, she was an anti-fascist activist. The family’s experience informed his art just as Michael Yates’s working class roots and long career as a labor activist and educator shapes his latest book…

Capitalism: to be “rejected, root and branch”–Michael Yates via Counterpunch

Capitalism: to be “rejected, root and branch”–Michael Yates via Counterpunch

February 20, 2024

There is much discussion on the left about the connections and relative importance of class, race, gender, and the environment. Some, like political scientist Adolph Reed, take a class-first approach and criticize those who place an emphasis on race and gender as engaging in an identity politics that often shades into support for the neoliberalism that has wreaked havoc on working people for the past several decades….

A “definitive one-volume anthology”: Marxism & Philosophy reviews Samir Amin’s “Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value”

A “definitive one-volume anthology”: Marxism & Philosophy reviews Samir Amin’s “Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value”

February 20, 2024

Last August, the world lost a great Marxist theorist, Samir Amin. Amin was politically engaged throughout his life, worked in planning agencies in Mali and Senegal, and contributed to the theoretical elaboration of Marxist theory. Amin published dozens of books that cover a wide range of topics, including, amongst other topics…

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