The Robbery of Nature

Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland), Bill Hopwood is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, 2020, Monthly Review Capitalist production…only develops … by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the worker. Marx, Capital The Robbery of Nature […]

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Review: Marx in the Anthropocene

Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). A new book by Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito has been an unlikely bestseller in Japan, selling more than half a million copies since its 2020 release. Saito’s unambiguous message that capitalism is to blame for the environmental crisis and that we must overthrow […]

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Film Review: Women Talking

Rob Rooke is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Written & Directed by Sarah Polley Sarah Polley’s movie is ultimately a parable on abuse and resistance. It is set in a Mennonite Colony in an unidentified country. The movie is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Canadian author Miriam […]

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The Communist Manifesto: 175 Years

by Karl Marx & Fredrich Engels 175 years ago, on February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published, opening the eyes of the world to ideas that would threaten the political basis of bourgeois society. A bombshell when it came out, it contains the germ of many key Marxist ideas and for the first time, […]

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A Road Map for the US-China Cold War

Adam N. Lee is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Book review: Danger Zone — The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley offers a very scary road map for US victory in the new imperialist Cold War. Brands and Beckley, specialists in geopolitical history, present their book Danger Zone as “a contrarian take” […]

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Movie Review -Triangle of Sadness

The new movie from Danish director Ruben Östlund has the enigmatic title “Triangle of Sadness.” It derives from the suggestion made to Carl, in the role of a male model, that he gets Botox to rid himself of his “triangle of sadness” (the wrinkles that form in the area between one’s eyebrows) in order to […]

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