Yet something else worth reading, striking in its clear-headedness in the connection between economics and politics as much as it is for being written in 1915. That timing is fateful because it represented a time of relative peace and "democratic development" which ended with an inevitable fruition ...

The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber August 25, 2011 Written by Dominic Alexander Published in Book Reviews The history of rubber is a history of sweated labour, environmental destruction, and repeated atrocities. Tully's account not only provides insight into these horrors but particular mo...

Interview with John Tully, author of The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber Why, of all possible commodities, did you choose to write a book on rubber? It started with direct experience of a rubber factory: namely working on a major overhaul of the Banbury internal mixer at the old Goodyear ti...

Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance” Glen Ford, BAR executive editor 07 Dec 2017 “The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.” Democratic Party “resistance” to Donald Trump is a sham that has succeeded only in increasing the likelihood of n...

Trump tax cut plan will devastate public education By Patrick Martin 6 December 2017 The tax cut legislation backed by the Trump White House is more than just a trillion-dollar windfall for the super-rich. The bills passed by the House and Senate in different forms will now be reconciled in a specia...

The Secret of Primitive Accumulation - Happy St. Patrick's Day Karl Marx. Capital Volume One -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Twe...

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." This is one of the most famous and oft-quoted statements in the history of political literature. The footnote reminds us that it is written history that we are talking about, i.e. since the "dawn of civilization". Afte...

"Hierarchy" is one of those squishy, meaningless, open-ended terms favored by liberal commentators. If it is to have any meaning at all, it is defined in terms of equally squishy concepts which are also open-ended. What is "hierarchy"? Well it is a tendency towards "despotism". What is "despotism"?...

THE TRUMP/GOP TAX PLAN – ROBIN HOOD IN REVERSE To hear Donald Trump and the GOP leadership talk, you would think the biggest corporations in the U.S. along with the wealthiest families, are cash strapped and in need of a massive shot in the arm – in the form of a multi-trillion dollar tax cut. Trump...

Trump’s tax plan provides massive windfall to the rich By Trévon Austin 28 September 2017 President Donald Trump revealed his tax cut plan Wednesday, calling it “a revolutionary change.” The plan consists of an array of cuts which would provide a historic windfall for large corporations and the rich...