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Trumpist Fascism: The Worm TurnsTrumpist Fascism: The Worm TurnsFor those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.) Nixon soon launched a brutal “Christmas” bombing of Vietnam and prepared further revenge against his “enemies list” at home. […]
In His Case, It Was True: On the Death of Victor Grossman (1928–2025)In His Case, It Was True: On the Death of Victor Grossman (1928–2025)Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. Victor was a good friend of Monthly Review for over thirty years, who […]
The Martin Luther King Center in Cuba: Immersed in the World and the RevolutionThe Martin Luther King Center in Cuba: Immersed in the World and the RevolutionOver the years, the Center has trained thousands of popular educators. Marilín explains how the educators often find themselves in complex situations. “The Christians see us as communists, and the communists see us as Christians—though some of the latter recognize we are more communist than they are.”
Radical Finance for America’s Schools w/ David I. BackerRadical Finance for America’s Schools w/ David I. BackerWe are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025). The right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. Backer’s incisive book asks whether choosing between our embattled status quo and the stingy privatized vision of the right is the only path forward.
John Bellamy Foster, “Breaking the Bonds of Fate” (Book Launch)John Bellamy Foster, “Breaking the Bonds of Fate” (Book Launch)The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
