Saira Ro recently welcomed Esther Farmer, one of the coeditors of 'A Land With A People,' to discuss her participation in recent actions demanding justice for the Palestinian People.... The post Listen: On 50+ years as an activist (coeditor of <em>A Land With A People</em> interviewed on Here4TheKids podcast) appeared first on Monthly Review.| Monthly Review
Stone, as always working from open-source materials, condemned the continuation of the bombing of the north even though there were no viable military targets left...These days, the Stone’s 'Hidden History,' while still viewed with hostility in certain quarters, is regarded as one of his best works. But given that it appeared long before the archives were open and while the conflict in Korea continued, is there merit in republishing it? The answer is yes. Stone may not have got everything ri...| Monthly Review
"...a woman in Gaza, her family had been bombed out of their home. But she was determined to make bread and she had found a hot plate. She was making these breads. She said you could get killed going to the bakery, you can’t go to the bakery. They're bombing the bakeries. So I'm doing this. Her kids are in the street, sitting under a tarpaulin. And she's making bread. That's a form of heroism, you know? ...I asked them, “Do you ever feel like you should leave?” They replied, 'We stay he...| Monthly Review
At the end of the postscript, Marini again emphasises the central concept of his work, namely that “dependent economy – and therefore the super-exploitation of labour – appears as a necessary condition of world capitalism” and that therefore “capitalist production, by developing labour’s productive powers, does not eliminate but rather accentuates the greater exploitation of the worker”... The post To re-create Marxism, but not repeat Marx (<em>The Dialectics of Dependency</em> ...| Monthly Review
Recently the podcast Cosmonaut hosted Chris Gilbert for a discussion of his new book 'Commune or Nothing!' They covered topics such as: The history of communes, the Venezuelan cooperative movement and the drive to build state-run industry; István Mészáros' perspective on how the commune centers the communal control of the labor process; the problem of attracting the youth to communes today; the mystical side of communes in relation to human development, and more... The post Listen: Chris G...| Monthly Review
The UAW strike against Big Auto succeeded in winning impressive wage gains, but it failed to obtain a little-reported demand: that the auto companies reinstate defined benefit pension plans for new employees... The post UAW fails to win back pensions for newer workers appeared first on Monthly Review.| Monthly Review
Protests against enclosure began as far back as 1450, when “tens of thousands of English peasants fought, and thousands died, to halt the spread of capitalist farming that was destroying their way of life.” The post The making of capitalism (<em>The War Against the Commons</em> reviewed in ‘Against the Current’) appeared first on Monthly Review.| Monthly Review
So why not just end the U.S. embargo on Venezuela? If Venezuelans are coming here just to escape economic problems at home, reducing the embargo should bring about a major decline in Venezuelan asylum seekers. The post Venezuelan migrants “destroying New York”? (David Wilson featured on NYU Press blog) appeared first on Monthly Review.| Monthly Review
The book ends with a broad literature review on our possible postcapitalist future by Greg Albo. This concluding chapter and the rest of the book offer the reader hope to overcome the contemporary crisis and meet a healthier and happier future The post Towards postcapitalist tech (<em>Beyond Digital Capitalism</em> reviewed in ‘Science and Society’) appeared first on Monthly Review.| Monthly Review
'The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis' provides the historical insight that I associate with the best accounts of this kind: motives are complex, power a critical variable, timing an unpredictable factor, and rational argument not necessarily a winning strategy... The post A professor’s fight against McCarthyism resonates today (<em>The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis</em> reviewed by historian Joan Scott) appeared first on Monthly Review.| Monthly Review
João Pedro Stedile, founder and spokesperson of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), reflects on the movement’s efforts to build a socialist alternative through land occupations…| Monthly Review
Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx’s neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology…| Monthly Review
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum.| Monthly Review