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John Smith’s “Rigorous Exposé Of Neoliberalism” in Britain’s The Morning Star

John Smith’s “Rigorous Exposé Of Neoliberalism” in Britain’s The Morning Star

February 20, 2024

This seminal and original study of contemporary imperialism should be on every militant’s bookshelf, not least because it is tightly argued, exhaustively researched and unashamedly Marxist throughout. ¶ John Smith’s central argument is that the decline in manufacturing in the Western industrialised countries, and its rise in the so-called Third World, are part of a deliberate strategy by transnational corporations to exploit low wages, underpinned by appalling working conditions, in order to realise super profits….

anarkismo.net reviews The Necessity of Social Control

anarkismo.net reviews The Necessity of Social Control

February 20, 2024

“István Mészáros, a well-known Marxist theorist, has material which can be interesting to anarchists. He has an insightful analysis of the current stage of capitalism and the state. He makes Marx’s ‘withering away of the state’ central to his program, and he rejects electoral party politics. But paradoxically, he also supports the late Hugo Chavez’s attempted use of the Venezuelan state to move to socialism. How can we understand this and respond to it?…”

Ian Angus: New Anthropocene Epoch Is Already Here

February 20, 2024

Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, talked to David P. Ball of Metro Vancouver just before his September 15 presentation at Simon Fraser University

The American War in Vietnam: 2 Counterpunch Reviews

The American War in Vietnam: 2 Counterpunch Reviews

February 20, 2024

We are never going to get a better truth-telling antidote than the one John Marciano provides. Longtime activist and scholar, author of Civil Illiteracy and Education, the battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth and co-author of Teaching the Vietnam War, Marciano knows his stuff.

Marta Harnecker on “The Best Homage We Can Pay Fidel”

Marta Harnecker on “The Best Homage We Can Pay Fidel”

February 20, 2024

“Over half a century ago, as Latin American households were celebrating the start of a new year, some good news arrived from Cuba: a guerrilla army with a social base among the peasantry triumphed on the Caribbean island, liberating the country from the tyrannical Batista regime. A political process began that not only aimed to overthrow a dictator, but sought to follow a consistently revolutionary line: genuinely transform society for the benefit of the great majority….”

Ottawa Valley Faces Ian Angus (and the Anthropocene)

Ottawa Valley Faces Ian Angus (and the Anthropocene)

February 20, 2024

in which Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, talks to Jennifer Estendorp of Inside Ottawa Valley
“What is the Anthropocene you ask?
‘Geologists divide the history of our world into increments, based on what they know about eras,’ explained Ian Angus, local author. ‘Currently, we’re in the Holocene epoch.’

“Facing the Anthropocene: climate change is a ‘global emergency’”

February 20, 2024

This summer, a panel of geologists voted to recognize today as an age where human activities match or exceed natural forces and are globally significant. They named it the Anthropocene. On September 13, Ian Angus, an author and eco-socialist activist, spoke at a colloquium organized by UBC’s geography department, addressing this proposed geological epoch and introducing his new book, Facing the Anthropocene.

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