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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Earth on fire. Graphic: Wikimedia/Cristian Ibarra Santillan

    Climate change: Too hot for our rulers to handle–weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 29, 2026 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.

  • Alexandra Kollontai, The Social Basis of the Woman Question, trans. Elise Kendrick (Chicago: Haymarket 2026), 364pp.

    Falling in love again: The extraordinary politics of Alexandra Kollontai – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on March 5, 2026 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been, finds Lindsey German.

  • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

    ‘Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World’ – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on March 28, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Naomi Klein’s exploration of the spread of conspiracy theory and the ‘other Naomi’ is baggy but contains useful insights, argues Lindsey German.

  • Queen Elizabeth II in Cornwall, 2021. Photo: Flickr/Andrew Parsons

    The throne behind the power – weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 11, 2022 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German on the loss and replacement of a UK monarch.

  • Wildfire, Europe 2017. Photo: PxHere

    The Tories fiddle while the planet burns, but protest is growing – weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counter Fire on July 17, 2022 (more by Counter Fire)  |

    Lindsey German on unfolding economic and environmental crises, and how we should respond.

  • Nato on green, Russia in orange. Graphic: Wikimedia/Patrickneil

    This is the real face of the Ukraine war – weekly briefing

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 2, 2022 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German on imperialism, democracy and porn in parliament.

  • Marxist classics for Xmas

    Ten Marxist classics for Xmas

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 8, 2021 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German’s Marxist holiday reading list

  • Marxism and Women's Liberation

    Marxism and feminism – Marxism and Women’s Liberation extract

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 8, 2021 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Lindsey German discusses Marxism’s contribution to analyzing women’s oppression in this extract from Marxism and Women’s Liberation

  • British Royal Navy's frigate, HMS Iron Duke. Photo- Wikimedia Commons

    Britain is following Trump and escalating the threat of war with Iran

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 12, 2019 (more by Counterfire)  |

    The British Navy’s seizing of an Iranian oil tanker shows Britain following Trump, trading in diplomacy for the threat of military confrontation, argues Lindsey German

  • Paul le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy 1917-1924 (Haymarket Books 2017), 504pp.

    October Song

    Originally published: Counter Fire on September 20, 2018 (more by Counter Fire)  |

    Paul le Blanc’s history of the Russian Revolution shows that the tragic outcome was not inevitable, and there is much to learn from it, argues Lindsey German.

  • The Seduction of Feminism

    Lindsey German

      Hester Eisenstein.  Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (Paradigm 2009).  xv, 293pp. The 20th century is often called the American century because of the US’s advance during that time to become the single greatest power in the world — economically, industrially and militarily.  The century’s story […]

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Lindsey German

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Lindsey German

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Lindsey German

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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