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Review of the book ‘Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management’. It traces Cuba’s preparedness from the threat of a US invasion following its revolution through its resistance to hurricanes and diseases, which all laid the foundation for current adaptions to climate change.
Did Karl Marx have a theory of race and capitalism? Not exactly, but he theorized on these issues for over four decades and much of what he wrote still speaks to us today. At a time of global and U.S. struggles for liberation in the face of a deeply racialized fascist threat, these writings are worth revisiting.
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article dissects various aspects of this campaign.
We need a socialist planned economy that can implement a long term plan to make the transformations that are needed for our very survival: a rapid transition off fossil fuels and a restoration of ecosystems to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, restore the water cycle and cool the climate.
The Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others that sprung up in response to Hugo Chávez’s call to build communes as “the basic cells of socialism.”
A key spokesperson of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force, an urban commune in Venezuela, talks about the challenges of building an urban communal project and the organization’s vision of the future.
A decade ago, a group of 20-year-old girls entered a Cathedral in Moscow to deliver a punk concert, imploring the Mother of God to rid the world of Putin. The group’s leaders were arrested and sent to a remote penal colony. An online interview with one of the leaders, Maria Alyokhina.
Brazil’s MST have achieved something even Gandhi never could: the combination of constructive alternatives with broad-based resistance.
Chávez’s agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.
This exchange appeared in the September 1961 issue of Monthly Review. The questions were submitted, in writing, to Comandante Guevara by Leo Huberman during the week of the Bay of Pigs invasion; the answers were received at the end of June.
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