“Over half a century ago, as Latin American households were celebrating the start of a new year, some good news arrived from Cuba: a guerrilla army with a social base among the peasantry triumphed on the Caribbean island, liberating the country from the tyrannical Batista regime. A political process began that not only aimed to overthrow a dictator, but sought to follow a consistently revolutionary line: genuinely transform society for the benefit of the great majority….”… | more…

We are never going to get a better truth-telling antidote than the one John Marciano provides. Longtime activist and scholar, author of Civil Illiteracy and Education, the battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth and co-author of Teaching the Vietnam War, Marciano knows his stuff.… | more…

Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, talked to David P. Ball of Metro Vancouver just before his September 15 presentation at Simon Fraser University… | more…

Burnaby, British Columbia: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.
Come to Simon Fraser University and hear Ian Angus talk about his new book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
7:00–9:00PM, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward’s, 149 W. Hastings St.… | more…

“István Mészáros, a well-known Marxist theorist, has material which can be interesting to anarchists. He has an insightful analysis of the current stage of capitalism and the state. He makes Marx’s ‘withering away of the state’ central to his program, and he rejects electoral party politics. But paradoxically, he also supports the late Hugo Chavez’s attempted use of the Venezuelan state to move to socialism. How can we understand this and respond to it?…”… | more…

MRP author Alan Wieder talks about his book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation with Rick Kogan, host of “After Hours” on Chicago radio station WGN.
And if you’re in Chicago, come hear Alan at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Tuesday Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00PM for his book release!… | more…

John Smith, author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis, talks to Daphna Whitmore of the online publication, Redline: Contemporary Marxist Analysis… | more…

DN: This week the International Geological Congress in Cape Town received word of a coming recommendation that a new geological epoch needs to be official declared. The new epoch, called the Anthropocene, indicates the unprecedented level of human impact on the Earth… What’s an epoch and why are they and you calling to name a new one?… | more…

Brought to you by the A-Infos Radio Project: Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow, talked, on September 4, to Community Public Radio’s Don DeBar about the G-20, the Alt-Right, Brexit, the US Presidential election, globalization, and just about everything else.… | more…