Share using EmailShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on Linkedin (Image credit: Getty Images) By Myles Burke12th February 2024 One of the great 20th-Century novelists, Morrison consciously aimed her work at black American readers. In a 2003 interview, she told the BBC about why that made her writing sing. A At the start of her career, Toni Morrison determined…

Lefebvre and Althusser: Reinterpreting Marxist Humanism and Anti-Humanism By Andy Merrifield (Posted Jun 13, 2021) Ideology, Marxism, PhilosophyEurope, Soviet Union (USSR)Monthly Review EssaysFeatured Since the October Revolution, Marxism has experienced almost as many crises as capitalism itself. Crises are Marxism’s bread and butter, if not its chalk and cheese. Meltdowns of capitalism usually come as little surprise to…

Time to stop the twin flywheels of inequality JEROEN VAN BAAR FEB 3, 2024 I attended a fascinating symposium at the Urban Institute yesterday. Urban is a non-profit research organization and think tank in Washington, DC focusing on issues of economics and social policy. Yesterday’s session was about the “forgotten middle”, a term that refers to the lower…

FEBRUARY 15, 2024 Erik Bulatov (USSR), Horizon, 1971–72. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May. Over 90,000 troops from NATO countries (and one partner country,…

Israel is going ahead with its all out assault on Rafah despite strong condemnation by world leaders and aid organizationsFebruary 12, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch Photo: WAFA News Agency Despite repeated warnings from scores of world leaders, international institutions, and aid agencies, Israel has significantly intensified its bombardment in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, where currently…