Editorial
- Zimmerman Verdict Upholds License to Kill Black and Latino Men
- Boston and West, Texas: Two Disasters, Both Unnatural
- Worst Ever “Natural” Disaster Hits New York
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Debate on Economic Crisis Erupts in the CWI: start of much-needed rethinking on the left?
November 4, 2013A major dispute over the causes of the latest capitalist economic crisis, and how to respond to it, has erupted in the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), an orthodox Trotskyist organization. Its largest section, the Socialist Party of England and Wales (SP(E&W)), is one of the remnants of the Militant Tendency that was expelled from the British Labour Party in the early 1980s.
A growing group of dissidents in the CWI contends that the organization pays lip service to the crisis theory of Karl Marx, but actually bases itself on the underconsumptionist theory of Monthly Review and on Keynesianism. The leadership acknowledges that it rejects what it calls the “dogmatic theory that the tendency of the rate of profit to decline explains the present crisis.”
Video: “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?”
October 17, 2013Discussion of New MHI Pamphlet, “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?: On Monthly Review's Factual and Theoretical Myths” by Andrew Kliman Marxist-Humanist Initiative hosted a public discussion in New York City on Sept. 16 on Andrew Kliman’s just-published pamphlet, “Can...
Read MoreManning Sentenced for Leaking U.S. War-Crimes Documents
August 25, 2013Private First Class Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Aug. 21 for leaking more than 700,000 classified government files to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization that arranged their publication. Manning, a 25-year old former army intelligence analyst, performed a brave and...
Read MoreVideo: MHI-sponsored panels at Left Forum 2013
June 23, 2013Marxist-Humanist Initiative sponsored four events at Left Forum this year. The annual conference, the largest American conference of left academics and activists, was held June 7-9 in New York City. Below are videos of two MHI-sponsored panel discussions...
Read MoreFilm: “Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”
November 3, 2012An info-review of a film about the founder of Marxist-Humanism This new documentary illustrates many major ideas of the philosopher, activist, and feminist Raya Dunayevskaya, who developed Marxist-Humanism over much of the last century. Click to view trailer: (Pictures of her follow...
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Economic Crisis
- Video: “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?”
- The Unmaking of Marx’s “Capital”: Heinrich’s Attempt to Eliminate Marx’s Crisis Theory
- Monthly Failure to Review: Even Worse than I Thought
- Bruce Wallace’s “Creative Accounting” (further critique of Monthly Review statistics)
- Video: Inequality and the Great Recession
- More Misused Wage Data from “Monthly Review”: The Overaccumulation of a Surplus of Errors
- Complete Listing
Forces of Revolution
- Garment Workers in Bangladesh Revolt over Pay Increase
- Show your support for the struggles of Brazilian youth and workers!
- South African Poor Support Turkish Struggle for Dignity and Equality
- May Day 2013 in Athens–and Around the World
- West Papua Struggles for Self-Determination, Challenging Indonesia’s Brutal Repression
- South Africa: Documentary Films and a Play
- Complete Listing
Alternatives to Capital
- Post-Work: Zombie Social Democracy with a Human Face?
- Video: The Incoherence of “Transitional Society”
- Two Peas in a Pod: Lapavitsas & Husson on the Eurozone Crisis
- Marx’s Critique of Socialist Labor-Money Schemes and the Myth of Council Communism’s Proudhonism
- A Reply to Critics of “The Make-Believe World of David Graeber”
- Audio: On MHI’s “FAQs” on Occupy Movement & Marxist-Humanism
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Philosophy/Organization
- Sept. 16 Discussion: New MHI Pamphlet on Monthly Review School
- Video: Why Do Popular Movements Vanish? And Do They Have To?
- Misology, “cultism,” and economic crisis: reply to Paul Demarty
- Video: MHI-sponsored panels at Left Forum 2013
- Marx’s Human Nature: Distinguishing Essence from Essentialism
- Audio: The Impasse in Movements for Social Change and the Need for “Organization of Thought”
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U.S. News
- Fast-Food Workers Hold 1-Day Strike Across the U.S.
- Court Orders N.Y.P.D.’s Racist “Stop-and-Frisk” Practice Curbed
- Manning Sentenced for Leaking U.S. War-Crimes Documents
- MHI-Sponsored Events at Left Forum 2013, June 8 & 9
- International Women’s Day 2013
- Con Ed and Union Reach Contract after 26 Days of Lockout
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International News
- The End of Golden Dawn in Greece
- Kenya Reels from Mass Shootings at Shopping Mall
- South African Police Kill Girl for Supporting Shack Dwellers Movement
- Greece: Austerity and Repression Worsen, Syriza Fails to Fight Back
- Toronto Hotel Workers Win Strike
- International Call for Withdrawal of U.N. troops from Haiti
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Featured Audio & Video
Audio: Is it True that “People Are Not Ready for Socialism”?- Audio: On MHI’s “FAQs” on Occupy Movement & Marxist-Humanism
Video: MHI Panels at Left Forum 2012 on Harvey’s and Kliman’s Books- Video: “The Failure of Capitalist Production” at Bluestockings
- Video: The Incoherence of “Transitional Society”
- Video: “Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis”
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