Marat / Sade Medley
In honor of Bastille Day, a medley of tunes from Peter Brooks' production of Peter Weiss's play, Marat / Sade. Sung by Judy Collins.
Global Left Midweek – May 22, 2024
Portside
Burning questions
Portugal: Fifty Years Since the Carnation Revolution
Monthly Review
From today’s perspective, fifty years after the revolution, how can we assess its legacy?
Would Frantz Fanon Have Supported the Oct. 7 Massacre? His Biographer Isn’t So Sure
Haaretz
How did a single chapter from a book written over six decades ago by a Black psychiatrist, who never discussed the Israel-Palestine issue, become widely cited in relation to October 7? A new biography explores the life of Frantz Fanon.
The Impossibility of Actual Politics
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
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."
The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune.
The Nation
The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune.
books
Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism
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
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.
Global Left Midweek - Facing 2022
Portside
A year set for major upheavals all over
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