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.”
Left Forum 2014 is May 30, 31 and June 1; Come to MHI’s panels!
April 23, 2014Marxist-Humanist Initiative will be sponsoring three panels at Left Forum this year. The largest left academic conference in the U.S., Left Forum will take place in New York City on May 30, 31 and June 1. Below are descriptions of our panels, which will be...
Read MoreUkraine’s “Left Opposition” Calls for Solidarity Against Intervention and Oligarchs
March 7, 2014UKRAINE WILL BE SAVED FROM INTERVENTION BY SOLIDARITY 3 March 2014 The...
Read MorePlease help Kenyan children to survive and go to school
January 23, 2014MHI received the following appeal from Kenya for donations to help poverty-stricken children and their families. Fortunately, we have had plenty of rain for the past year. Therefore, most of the families who were starving during the drought now have something to eat. Now we are...
Read MoreVideo: Roundtable on “Can Redistribution Solve Capitalism’s Crises?”
December 18, 2013A roundtable discussion co-sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI) and Internationalist Perspective (IP) was held at Bluestockings Bookstore in N.Y.C. on Dec. 2, 2013. The speakers critically examined proposals to redistribute income and wealth that are currently popular in “Marxist,”...
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Economic Crisis
- What Lies Ahead: Accelerating Growth or Secular Stagnation?
- Video: Roundtable on “Can Redistribution Solve Capitalism’s Crises?”
- 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)
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Forces of Revolution
- Batay Ouvriye (Haiti) on International Working Women’s Day
- 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
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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
- Phone-in Reading Group on Dunayevskaya’s “Marxism and Freedom”
- 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
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U.S. News
- Left Forum 2014 is May 30, 31 and June 1; Come to MHI’s panels!
- 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
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International News
- Ukraine “Left Opposition” Activist Reports on Maidan Movement
- Ukraine’s “Left Opposition” Calls for Solidarity Against Intervention and Oligarchs
- Royal Opera House Porters and Cleaners Win “London Living Wage”
- 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
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Reviews & Culture
- Reviews of MHI pamphlet: “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?”
- Book Review: Billy Moon by Douglas Lain
- Book Review: Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital” and The Failure of Capitalist Production by Andrew Kliman
- Film: “Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”
- South Africa: Documentary Films and a Play
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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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