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Tumultuous Rapids: Countercurrents.org reviews Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

Tumultuous Rapids: Countercurrents.org reviews Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

February 20, 2024

History…is not a peacefully flowing river, but made up of different moments, separated by tumultuous rapids’ (134). When the USSR broke apart in 1991, an unprecedented ideological campaign was launched, propagating the idea that Soviet collapse implied the collapse of the socialist project as a whole. The ‘end of history’ was said to be at hand. ¶ Amin’s critical reading of Russian history de-bunks this myth, with the compact prose and theoretical precision that is characteristic of Amin’s many writings…

Chicago, April 27-29: Rosa Luxemburg, Engaging the Left; Impacting the World

Chicago, April 27-29: Rosa Luxemburg, Engaging the Left; Impacting the World

February 20, 2024

April 27-28, 9AM-8PM | April 29, 9AM-1PM
UE Hall, 37 S Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60607
Free and Open to the Public
Speakers include: Michael Löwy (France), Helen Boak (England), Radhika Desai (Canada), Pablo Slavin (Argentina), Drucilla Cornell (USA), Zhang Meng (China), Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (India), Ottokar Luban (Germany), Ankica Čakardič (Croatia), and many others

Barbaric Production: Gerald Horne Discusses Slavery, Capitalism, and White Supremacy on This is Hell!

Barbaric Production: Gerald Horne Discusses Slavery, Capitalism, and White Supremacy on This is Hell!

February 20, 2024

Historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, talks to Chuck Mertz about his book — and our history — on This is Hell!, which broadcasts every Saturday, 9AM-1PM (CDT) on WNUR 89.3FM Chicago and podcasts to the world shortly after.

Culture as Politics reviewed by Helena Sheehan in Marx & Philosophy

Culture as Politics reviewed by Helena Sheehan in Marx & Philosophy

February 20, 2024

Christopher Caudwell was a brief and breathtakingly brilliant presence in the world. Born Christopher St John Sprigg in London in 1907, he published prolifically and died fighting in the Spanish civil war in 1937, before he even reached the age of 30….

Gerald Horne speaks at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 14th Annual African American History Month Lecture

Gerald Horne speaks at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 14th Annual African American History Month Lecture

February 20, 2024

On February 21, radical historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean was the featured speaker at The University of North Carolina’s (Chapel Hill) 14th African American History Month Lecture. As he is introduced by history professor Genna Rae McNeil, the video segment below begins Gerald Horne’s lecture…

“Freedom” and “Liberty” Were Only for Whites in Settler Colonialism: Truthout’s Mark Karlin interviews Gerald Horne

“Freedom” and “Liberty” Were Only for Whites in Settler Colonialism: Truthout’s Mark Karlin interviews Gerald Horne

February 20, 2024

Mark Karlin: How did you settle on the title The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism for your book?
Gerald Horne: In my opinion, discussing profound change in the US without a popularizing of the concept of “settler colonialism” would be akin to seeking change in pre-1994 South Africa without underscoring “apartheid.” By adding “apocalypse,” I wanted to at once contrast this account with past accounts, which have tended to stress the “benefits” of settler colonialism, which obviously elides and obscures (if not justifies) genocide and dispossession targeting the Indigenous population of North America and mass enslavement of Africans….

Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview

Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview

February 20, 2024

Nyeusi U. Jami, host of Revolutionary African Perspectives (WRFG 89.3 FM, Atlanta), talks with Gerald Horne in a four-part interview, about his recent book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. In part five, the conversation turns to matters involving Dr. Horne’s 2014 book, Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow

Rethinking Democracy, SR 2018 reviewed by Counterfire

Rethinking Democracy, SR 2018 reviewed by Counterfire

February 20, 2024

This latest addition to one of the most prestigious journals on the left is a timely examination of the relationship between socialism and democracy. Decades of Stalinist distortion in Eastern Europe still leave a residual notion in the minds of many that these two concepts are, in fact, antithetical. Throughout the era of the cold war, the Western states propagated the related idea that only capitalism was capable of securing the individual freedoms that are synonymous with the idea of democracy….

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