MICHAEL HUDSON Summary[1a] Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy of feudalism – the landlords, bankers and monopolists extracting […]
BY LAWRENCE DAVIDSON Photograph Source: Pk4wp – CC BY-SA 4.0 In mid-October 2020 a French schoolteacher, 47-year-old Samuel Paty, decided to show his Freedom of Speech class cartoons demeaning Islam’s founding prophet, Mohammed. The cartoons were the […]
In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), […]
Book Editor(s) :Nora Lester MuradPublished Date :April 2020Publisher :Olive Branch Press (Imprint of Interlink Publishing)Paperback :174 pagesISBN-13 :9781623719159 Ramona Wadi walzerscent It is rare that we come across writings of how people identify with Palestine. Zionist […]
A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR. Katt Cremer This article is the second of two presentations […]
‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’ — Karl Marx Ranjeet Brar In this short video, leading communist Dr Ranjeet Brar speaks to a meeting held in 2018 […]
by RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage […]
What should British workers conclude from this four-year experiment in ‘reclaiming the Labour party for socialism’? Proletarian writers Download a digital copy of this pamphlet. Preorder a copy from our shop. Jeremy Corbyn was only included […]
by LAWRENCE DAVIDSON Photograph Source: Briantrejo – CC BY-SA 3.0 I traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories in the early 2000s with the progressive group Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. We made an effort to gain insight […]
TREVOR LYNCH • American Pimp is a 1999 documentary directed by the Hughes Brothers, the half-black, half-Armenian twins who also directed Menace II Society and Dead Presidents. American Pimp fallen into obscurity and is now hard to find. But it deserves to […]