Editors' Blog
"Leaning Left" Duncan McFarland on Political Trends in China Today Forwarded by Norman Markowitz
Below I present belatedly Duncan McFaland's excellent presentation at the left Forum last June.
The Marxist IQ for August by Norman Markowitz
Unfortunately, I'm a week late with this month's Marxist IQ, do to a very busy schedule. Since Marxism is both a guide to analysis and action, this month's IQ will be dedicated to looking at contemporary events in ways different from mass media.
Rocking for the Bernie Sanders Campaign by Norman Markowitz
I am working on an analysis of the Bernie Sanders campaign and what it means for all of us which I hope to complete and put on the Blog in a week or so. But before I do that, here is the link to a You Tube Rock and Roll...
Harold Meyerson on the "Back to the Future" Southern Economy Today by Norman Markowitz
Below I am reposting an excellent article on the The U.S. economy today and the role of the cheap labor Southern states in driving U.S. wage rates down.
Michael Berkowitz's Insightful Review of "Jimmy Hall," an Important New Film by Norman Markowitz
As someone who has long written about films which deal with historical, class, political, and social issues, both positively and negatively, a have been troubled by the lack of such analysis in mainstream media and even in some orrgans of the left in our media saturated.
Bernie Sanders Speaks for All Working Class Americans by Norman Markowitz
Yesterday over thirty five hundred meetings took place through the United States to kick off Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Everyone should get a hold of the video of this event. I participated in a meeting in Manaquan New Jersey with a small number of people who ranged in age from teenagers to people like myself in the 70s but nationally over 100 thousand people attended the meetings, which were a first step to developing the national campaign.
In Celebration of the Beginning of the Cuban Revolution by Norman Markowitz
Today is July 26, the sixty second anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks by revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba. The attack failed but it was a beginning. At his tria, Fidel Castro, leader of the attack, acted with such courage and strength that...
The New York Times Gives A Voice to Socialism in America? by Norman Markowitz
I am by Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna, which appeared as a OP-Ed in the New York Times. Gar Alperovitz wrote a truly courageous and classic study, Atomic Diplomacy, Hiroshima and Potsdam, which I was still a student at City College in the 1960s, a work that not only disputed what everyone was taught--that is, that the Atom Bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war, but also connected those attacks directly to the Truman administration's desire to intimidate the Soviets and get them to accept U.S. foreign policy plans even before the war was over. Alperovitz has spent the last half centuy as a teacher and a writer and an activist, educating and organizing around the question of a new economy as an alternative to capitalism as it exists today.
