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Marat / Sade Medley

Judy Collins
In honor of Bastille Day, a medley of tunes from Peter Brooks' production of Peter Weiss's play, Marat / Sade. Sung by Judy Collins.

The Impossibility of Actual Politics

Nihal El Aasar Africa is a Country
Reflections on the Arab Spring After Twelve Years: A ‘failed’ revolution may not be entirely failed if we consider significant transformations that may transpire at the level of the ‘social"

books

The Untold Story of Capitalism

Joel Wendland-Liu Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
This book, writes reviewer Wendland-Liu, shifts the geographic focus of "origins of capitalism" debates from Europe "to the motion, spaces, circuits and conflicts in multiple global sites and stages of economic production relations."

books

Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism

Rida Vaquas Prometheus
Karl Kautsky was once the world's leading Marxist theoretician, but his reputation dimmed after World War I. On the occasion of the publication of a newly translated volume of his writings, reviewer Vaquas offers a reassessment.

labor

Today, We Celebrate the Carnation Revolution

Raquel Varela and David Broder Jacobin
On April 25, 1974, a mutiny in the Portuguese army put an end to five decades of dictatorship. The revolution that followed showed how working people can take a modern economy into their own hands.
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