Cesar Chavez at 95: Debunking the Myth
Edgar Esquivel gives a counter-history to the mythology surrounding United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez. Eight years ago (2014) President Barack Obama proclaimed March 31st …
Month: March 2022
American Communist Labor Strategy during the Third Period (1929-34) with Victor Devinatz
Annie and Cliff join Victor Devinatz, a management theorist and labor historian, to discuss the formation of the Trade Union Unity League (TUUL), its successes …
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: A Superb Satire of Petty-Bourgeois Conformism and Capitalist Barbarity
Christos Kefalis praises Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s new film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn as a devastating critique of contemporary Romanian capitalism and defends …
Which Way Forward for the Marxist Left?
In light of the liquidation of DSA’s BDS working group, Charlie Frank argues that Marxists must continue the political fight rather than turn towards localist …
The Farthest Promised Land: An Introduction to New Zealand’s Political Economy
Giacomo Bianchino and Rudy join Amal for an introductory discussion on New Zealand’s (Aotearoa in the Maori language) political economy, with a focus on how …
Remarks on “Towards an Organized Science”
Very interesting article with a good overview of some of the problems related to science as it is practiced. 1. The article talks about science …
Towards an Organized Science
How can the working class take hold of the forces of science, today held under the sway of corporate and imperialist interests? The Scientific Workers …
Letter: “Down the Weapons, Now!”
The big elephant in the room is the surrender of Ukraine to stop the massacre. This will not make Ukrainians look bad; it would save …
The Rank-and-File Strategy: Instrument or Dogma?
Parker Shea argues that the Rank-and-File strategy is far from the magic bullet for building a socialist movement that many of its proponents claim it …
Beyond Son Nica: Revolutionary Popular Music in Sandinista Nicaragua with T.M. Scruggs
Jackson joins ethnomusicologist and anthropologist T.M. Scruggs to discuss Nicaraguan popular music in the decades leading up to the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, as well as …
The History and Science of Nuclear Energy and the Climate Problem
Andrew Ammerlaan intervenes in the ongoing debate on the left over nuclear energy and makes the case for abandoning the stigma around a controversial form …
The Historic Defeat of the Female Sex: Revisiting Engels’ The Origin of the Family
Agata, Anne, Lydia and Rudy join to talk about the historic context of Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and …
Letter: Thoughts on Anti-War Strategy and Feelings of Helplessness
Reading the emerging discourse around the war in the Ukraine in Cosmonaut’s Letters section, I can’t help but note a commonality between clashing interlocutors. Sure, …
The Dawn of Social Evolution
Nicolas D Villarreal reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and outlines a theory of social evolution that answers the book’s objections …