Michael Yates in Counterpunch, on Bhaghat Singh
November 21, 2025
Gaza, India, Bhagat Singh, and the Right to Violently Rebel Against Imperial RepressionMonthly Review Press
Forthcoming! Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx (Excerpt)
November 21, 2025
Praise for Breaking the Bonds of Fate “Offering a new perspective on Epicurus, this book provides an impressive presentation of Marx’s materialism from an Epicurean point of view. Absolutely fascinating!”... READ MOREFinancial Times’ best books of 2025? A new release from MRP about architects as workers
November 21, 2025
The Financial Times just listed the newly released book The Labor of Architecture as one of its chosen titles among the Best Books of 2025 in the category of Art,... READ MOREVenezuelan migrants “destroying New York”? (David Wilson featured on NYU Press blog)
February 20, 2024
So why not just end the U.S. embargo on Venezuela? If Venezuelans are coming here just to escape economic problems at home, reducing the embargo should bring about a major decline in Venezuelan asylum seekers.
Towards postcapitalist tech (Beyond Digital Capitalism reviewed in ‘Science and Society’)
February 20, 2024
The book ends with a broad literature review on our possible postcapitalist future by Greg Albo. This concluding chapter and the rest of the book offer the reader hope to overcome the contemporary crisis and meet a healthier and happier future
A professor’s fight against McCarthyism resonates today (The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis reviewed by historian Joan Scott)
February 20, 2024
'The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis' provides the historical insight that I associate with the best accounts of this kind: motives are complex, power a critical variable, timing an unpredictable factor, and rational argument not necessarily a winning strategy...
Listen: Chris Gilbert’s Commune or Nothing! featured on ‘Cosmonaut’
February 20, 2024
Recently the podcast Cosmonaut hosted Chris Gilbert for a discussion of his new book 'Commune or Nothing!' They covered topics such as: The history of communes, the Venezuelan cooperative movement and the drive to build state-run industry; István Mészáros' perspective on how the commune centers the communal control of the labor process; the problem of attracting the youth to communes today; the mystical side of communes in relation to human development, and more...
To re-create Marxism, but not repeat Marx (The Dialectics of Dependency reviewed in Journal of European Economic History)
February 20, 2024
At the end of the postscript, Marini again emphasises the central concept of his work, namely that “dependent economy – and therefore the super-exploitation of labour – appears as a necessary condition of world capitalism” and that therefore “capitalist production, by developing labour’s productive powers, does not eliminate but rather accentuates the greater exploitation of the worker”...
An indomitable anti-Zionist Jewish feminist talks about the steadfastness (sumud) of Palestinians (A Land With A People coeditor interviewed for ‘The Famous Feminist’)
February 20, 2024
"...a woman in Gaza, her family had been bombed out of their home. But she was determined to make bread and she had found a hot plate. She was making these breads. She said you could get killed going to the bakery, you can’t go to the bakery. They're bombing the bakeries. So I'm doing this. Her kids are in the street, sitting under a tarpaulin. And she's making bread. That's a form of heroism, you know?
...I asked them, “Do you ever feel like you should leave?” They replied, 'We stay here. We're not leaving. This is our home.' That's a form of resistance."
“A lasting tribute to meticulous journalism” (The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition reviewed in ‘Asian Affairs’)
February 20, 2024
Stone, as always working from open-source materials, condemned the continuation of the bombing of the north even though there were no viable military targets left...These days, the Stone’s 'Hidden History,' while still viewed with hostility in certain quarters, is regarded as one of his best works. But given that it appeared long before the archives were open and while the conflict in Korea continued, is there merit in republishing it? The answer is yes. Stone may not have got everything right, and occasionally lapses into conspiracy theories, but his broad picture was accurate enough at the time and remains so. It is a lasting tribute to meticulous journalism.