In this new Organizing for Power series, we look at successful organizing drives and, in conversation with the workers and organizers who led them, get to the heart of what made these campaigns work. In this pilot episode, we meet with workers from the Charité and Vivantes hospital systems in Berlin, Germany, who recently won … Keep reading »

The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of antagonistic national, racial, generational, and other identities in the context of growing economic inequality, … Keep reading »

The Northern Peoples’ Coalition will be hosting three skills-based webinars sessions. A webinar series focused on reclaiming power through labour organizing. Each session will start at 6pm Eastern time and last for 90 minutes. Feb 7: Keep it Public: Why privatization and opening up Ontario for business failed the North? March 7: Northern Ontario: Clean … Keep reading »

Speakers include Greg Albo, Colin Leys, Vishwas Satgar, James Schneider and Bill Fletcher and discussants are Samantha Hargreaves and Awande Buthelezi.

Opening session of the Winter/Spring panels of authors who have presented essays in the current Socialist Register, No. 58.

Join Monthly Review Press and the Socialist Register together with Walden Bello, Jayati Ghosh, and Vishwas Satgar, as they discuss their contributions to New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism — the final volume of the Socialist Register to have been shaped by the late Leo Panitch. Walden Bello’s crucial perspective on the subject … Keep reading »

Politicians, the media, central bankers and the average worker have all been talking up the recent acceleration in the cost of living. Just a short time ago price rises of just 2% might have been considered ‘inflationary’. In the current phase of the Covid pandemic, inflation in core capitalist states, including Canada, is now running … Keep reading »

Second in the Socialist Register 58 Series: “Old Polarizations, New Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism.” BILL FLETCHER: will address the "Danger of Right-Wing Populism in the US" assessing of the forces marshalled on the right over the course of the Trump presidency, leading to the insurrection of January 2021, and the continuing dangers of a … Keep reading »

Internationally respected linguist and analyst Noam Chomsky and well-known socialist Bill Fletcher, Jr. will be discussing the roots of Russian aggression in Ukraine, the background to the conflict, the US role, and how the Left can respond. This will be live-streamed on YouTube. Organized by Liberation Road, and endorsed by 15 other organizations. PDF poster.

David Harvey: The Double Consciousness of Capital Ilya Matveev, and Oleg Zhuravlev: Social Sources of Political Polariztion in Russia Virgina Fontes, Ana Garcia, and Rejane Hoeveler: The Far Right, Corporate Power, Social Struggle in Brazil DAVID HARVEY is Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York. ILYA MATVEEV teaches politics … Keep reading »