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  • Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

    Degrowth – How anti-worker would it be?

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on October 10, 2023 (more by Green Social Thought)

    One accusation still seems to lack an adequate response: Is the U.S. working class inherently anti-degrowth because it would mean a massive loss of jobs?

  • Is Nuclear Fusion Energy Salvation?

    Is Nuclear Fusion Energy Salvation? Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on June 3, 2023 (more by Green Social Thought)

    Or is Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation?

  • Two barrels aim at African People's Socialist Party

    Two barrels aim at African People’s Socialist Party

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on December 26, 2022 (more by Green Social Thought)

    With new FBI and Department of “Justice” (DOJ) attacks expected in early January, a defense, mobilization and information session attracted hundreds of allies of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).

  • Life Expectancy (LE) in US and Cuba, 2017-2021

    Life expectancy: The U.S. and Cuba in the time of Covid

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on September 12, 2022 (more by Green Social Thought)

    Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years.

  • Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba

    Cuba prepares for disaster

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on March 22, 2022 (more by Green Social Thought)

    The book traces Cuba’s preparedness from the threat of a U.S. invasion following its revolution through its resistance to hurricanes and diseases, which all laid the foundation for current adaptions to climate change.

  • Demand SINGLE PAYER Expanded & Improved Medicare for All HR 676 Now Protest at the Baltimore Convention Center on Pratt at South Charles Street in Baltimore MD on Saturday morning, 11 February 2018 (Photo: Elvert Barnes Photography)

    Medicare-for-All is a beginning, not the end point

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on August 29, 2020 (more by Green Social Thought)

    As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All as a final goal.

  • Bust from the statue of Taino Chief Hatuey in Baracoa, Cuba

    A statue of Hatuey

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on July 2, 2020 (more by Green Social Thought)

    As monuments to Columbus and confederate heroes topple and Democrats ponder which militarist they wish to glorify in their replacements, it is critical to realize that statues which go up are at least as important as the ones that come down. Perhaps the best nominee for a new statue is Hatuey, who led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere.  

  • Fukushima Daiichi power plant, three minutes after an explosion on March 14, 2011

    Is nuclear power a solution to the climate crisis?

    Originally published: Green Social Thought on August 24, 2018 (more by Green Social Thought)

    Faith that environmental catastrophe can best be avoided by technological gadgetry rather than a change in social relationships received a big shot in the arm with the May 2018 publication of Energy: A Human History by prolific author Richard Rhodes. Rhodes profoundly misses the connection between technology and class relationships when he presents nuclear power as a socially neutral source of energy. Rather than pointing to a solution for climate change, his radiation denial mirrors Donald Trump’s climate denial in its derogation of scientific research and its personality attacks.

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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