Editorial
- The Extraordinary Dangers of Trump and Trumpism
- Orlando nightclub massacre and the depth of homophobia
- MHI launches activity in UK; two meetings in March
- Complete Listing
Gigantic Resistance Emerging Against Trumpism begins to make America GREAT again
January 26, 2017
Millions march to stop Trump;
women lead in self-mobilization
See also “Views from London Women’s March: Internationalism Trumps Trump”
On January 21, less than one day after Donald Trump–self-proclaimed sexual assailant and virulent authoritarian, xenophobe, and racist—was inaugurated as U.S. president, an unprecedented and unexpectedly huge outpouring of humanity, for humanity, rose up in demonstrations against him. Throughout the country and around the world, between three-and-a-half and five million people served notice to him and his government that we will not sit idly by as he tries to take away our rights, freedoms, and well-being.
Although the Women’s March on Washington refrained from officially declaring that it was a march against Trump and Trumpism—and although Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, had the audacity to claim that it was not—no one was fooled, least of all Trump himself. The Washington Post reported that he “grew increasingly and visibly enraged” as he watched “massive demonstrations around the globe protesting his day-old presidency.” He lamely tried to divert attention from this gigantic rejection of his rule by forcing Spicer to publicize the lie that the crowd Trump drew the day before was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.”
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Video: MHI-sponsored Panel on Confronting “Anti-Neoliberal Left” Collaboration with Trumpism and the Far Right
June 10, 2017Marxist-Humanist Initiative is unflinchingly opposed to Trumpism and the far right in all their manifestations. We have dedicated ourselves to protesting the heel coming down on our necks, and also to calling out those segments of the so-called left that continue to seek accommodation...
Read MoreTrump, Le Pen, Neoliberalism: Mea Culpa from a Far-Left Sanders Supporter
May 4, 2017by Prestyr John Mea Culpa: I have been following Andrew Kliman’s frequent warnings that Trumpism—and...
Read MoreDown with Le Pen, Trump, and Anti-Neoliberal “Left” Collaborationism
April 24, 2017by Andrew Kliman Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a supposed far-left anti-neoliberal politician, came in fourth in yesterday’s first-round voting for the French presidency. He then announced that he won’t call on supporters to...
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Economic Crisis
- Brexit, Trumpism, Sanders, and the Decrepit State of Capitalism: Against Political Determinism
- Dunayevskaya’s review of Mattick’s Marx and Keynes
- Video: Madrid Debate on Economic Crisis — Steve Keen vs. Steve Keen (and Andrew Kliman)
- Harvey vs. Marx on Crisis: Kliman’s Rejoinder
- Audio: Harvey versus Marx on Capitalism’s Crises
- Underestimating Evidence, Capitalists, and Workers: A rejoinder to Sam Gindin
- Complete Listing
Forces of Revolution
- Haitian Workers Brutally Attacked. ACT NOW.
- H&H Workers in Haiti Go Back to Work on Their Terms
- South African Movement Battles ANC for Housing, Land, Freedom to Protest
- Haitian Workers Fired For Union Activity, Some Win Jobs Back
- The French Stand Up
- 150,000 Protest in London against Austerity and Corruption
- Complete Listing
Alternatives to Capital
- Audio: Libertarian and Marxist-Humanist Debate Freedom
- A View from Slovenia: Employee-owned companies and left-wing organization
- Audio: MHI discusses state-capitalism & the nature of Soviet Union
- Livestream Course on Marx’s Capital
- On the Relevance of Marx’s Capital for Today
- Post-Work: Zombie Social Democracy with a Human Face?
- Complete Listing
Philosophy/Organization
- Lain Rejects, then Accepts, then Reneges on Terms of MHI’s Podcast Invitation
- MHI Invites Doug Lain to Discuss Disagreements
- Response to Swedish Podcaster’s False and Harmful Accusations Against MHI
- The Eternal Sunshine of the Vanguardist Mind: How Socialist Alternative Substitutes Opportunism for Theory
- Dunayevskaya’s Critique of News and Letters Committees’ Attitude to Theory
- Video: MHI Tackles “The Vanguardist/Spontaneist Binary” & “Overcoming Capitalism” at Left Forum
- Complete Listing
Resistance to Trumpism
- Trump, Le Pen, Neoliberalism: Mea Culpa from a Far-Left Sanders Supporter
- No Normalization of or Collaboration with Trumpism: An Open Letter to Platypus
- Marches for Science turn Earth Day into Truth Day
- Holocaust Survivor Confronts Trump’s Immigration Enforcer
- The Resistance Sends Trump-Ryan Obamacare Replacement to Humiliating Defeat
- Trump Rolls Out New ‘Muslim Ban’ and Court Blocks It
- Complete Listing
U.S. News
- Video: MHI-sponsored Panel on Confronting “Anti-Neoliberal Left” Collaboration with Trumpism and the Far Right
- Come to MHI’s panel at Left Forum on Sun. June 4 in NYC
- Cops Surveil Black Lives Matter; U.S. Justice Dept. Abandons All Police Oversight
- Why I Voted for the Imperialist Hillary Clinton
- Can a McMullin Vote in Utah Help Stop Trump?
- May 21-22: Left Forum Panels on Alternative to Vanguardist/ Spontaneist Binary + others
- Complete Listing
U.K. News
- UK’s 2017 General Election: A Crisis for the Political Class
- Deadly Fire in London Apartment Building: Underlying Causes
- Ghosts of the Innocent Victims–what more is there to come?
- The UK Left after Brexit: Free Movement and the Unions
- 250,000 rally in London to Save National Health Service
- Protest Outside Parliament Against Trump’s State Visit to Britain
- Complete Listing
Reviews & Culture
- Monsters vs. Zombies: Review of Phil Mullan’s Creative Destruction
- Bull Fight on Wall Street
- Londoners Protest to Shut Down LD50 Gallery, Sponsor of “Alt-Right” Exhibits and Talks
- Some US Media Criticize Term ‘Alt Right’ and Discover Fake News
- Review of Is Marx’s Theory of Profit Right? The Simultaneist-Temporalist Debate
- Q&A with artist Yevgeniy Fiks about “The Lenin Museum”
- Complete Listing
Miscellaneous
- Moseley’s Method of Debate: a comment from a Belgian Marxist youth
- All Value-Form, No Value-Substance: Comments on Moseley’s New Book, Part 13
- All Value-Form, No Value-Substance: Comments on Moseley’s New Book, Part 12
- All Value-Form, No Value-Substance: Comments on Moseley’s New Book, Part 11
- All Value-Form, No Value-Substance: Comments on Moseley’s New Book, Part 10
- All Value-Form, No Value-Substance: Comments on Moseley’s New Book, Part 9
- Complete Listing
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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