• Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell (New Transcript!)
    Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell (New Transcript!)

    This month we are re-publishing our conversation with Steven Attewell along with a new written transcript and episode graphic. Attewell is author of the incredible book, People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America from FDR to Reagan, published in 2018 by University of Pennsylvania Press. The book examines the history of job creation programs in the United States from the Great Depression to the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978.

    Teetering and tears: Berlin Bulletin No. 227, October 11, 2024
    Teetering and tears: Berlin Bulletin No. 227, October 11, 2024

    Despite all the many years, those who hated the GDR still hate it today. Indeed, they seem to fear it, and continue almost daily to revile its memories—like kicking an old horse cadaver which might yet bite or strike out with a hoof or two.

    John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Daniel Tutt on Georg Lukács and “The Destruction of Reason”
    John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Daniel Tutt on Georg Lukács and “The Destruction of Reason”

    In this interview, conducted on 10 February 2023, John Bellamy Foster speaks with Daniel Tutt about the work of István Mészáros and Paul Baran, contemporary irrationalist tendencies in left ecological thought, intensifying global class struggles and the continued relevance of Georg Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason (1952), recently reissued with an introduction by Enzo Traverso […]

    On Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism
    On Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism

    Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism.

    Seventy-Five Years of the Chinese Revolution
    Seventy-Five Years of the Chinese Revolution

    Tings Chak and Vijay Prashad take stock of seventy-five years of the Chinese Revolution.

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