Cesar Chavez at 95: Debunking the Myth
Edgar Esquivel gives a counter-history to the mythology surrounding United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez.聽 Eight years ago (2014) President Barack Obama proclaimed March 31st …
History
The Eco-Centrist Movement: The Sierra Club & Earth First! with Keith Mako Woodhouse
Rudy joins Keith Woodhouse, author of The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism for a discussion on the history of the mainstream 聽environmental movement in …
The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy”
Alexander Gallus takes a closer look at the developments leading up to this week’s dramatic events and offers some explanations for how we got to …
Modes of Production and the Transition to Capitalism with Jairus Banaji
Donald and Rudy join Jairus Banaji, author of Theory as History and A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism to discuss his theoretical 聽contributions around the …
End of an Era: 30 Years After the Soviet Collapse
Connor, Christian and Donald sit down to discuss the collapse of the Soviet Union. They begin by situating the economic and political problems of the …
Plowed Under: Communist Folk-Revival and Mid-Century Suppression with Aaron J. Leonard
Donald and Jackson are joined by historian Aaron J. Leonard, author of The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, The Folk Artists and the …
On the Current Phase of the Class Struggle in Algeria by Robert Linhart
Translation and Introduction by Stepan Afanasyev. Introduction Robert Linhart is a French Marxist, born in 1944 in the city of Nice. He was one of …
ACT UP, Fight Back: A History of AIDS in America
Charlie Frank gives an overview of the forms of social mobilization that developed as a response to the AIDS pandemic as well as what lessons …
Letters from N. I. Bukharin to V. I. Lenin (1915)
Translation by Mark Alexandrovic. The original publication was prepared by Cherny, Andrey Vitalievich, head of the department of the Museum of the Revolution.聽 Introduction The …
The Constitution of Necessity
Richard Hunsinger examines the origins of the capitalist mode of production through a comparative analysis of the work of Jairus Banaji and Robert Brenner. Introduction …
Making Sense of the Lysenko Affair
Soviet agrobiology is infamous for its promotion of the pseudoscientific theories of Trofim Lysenko and their disastrous results. Renato Flores investigates how these theories came …
Grenada: Volcanic Memories and Stone Legacies of Revolution with Shalini Puri
Isaac and Rudy join Shalini Puri, author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the companion website urgentmemory.com, for a …
The Introduction of Cybernetics in the GDR by J茅r么me Segal
Translation and introduction by Alexander Gallus. The reputation and legacy of cybernetics throughout the history of so-called AES/state socialist countries was fraught with controversy. The …
On the Stalin Question
Parker McQueeney introduces two of Paul Costello’s essays on the topic of Stalin and Stalinism: Stalin and Historical Reality and Stalin and the Problem of …