• The Fortieth Anniversary of the Vaal Uprising
    The Fortieth Anniversary of the Vaal Uprising

    Forty years later, Lehlohonolo Kennedy Mahlatsi looks back on the Vaal Uprising in South Africa, which marked a turning point in the growth of mass-based organizations throughout the country and the mass rejection of apartheid colonial rule.

    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”

    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 by Verso in 2021.

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

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

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