Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MONTAG Warren
Freud tells a story of a man standing still before the entrance to Charing Cross station in central London. Irritated commuters must swerve to avoid him, never wondering why his head is bowed in mourning. He does not see them; his gaze is directed away from the station and toward the Cross after (…)
, by Against the Current
MIKE DAVIS (1946-2022) was a razor-sharp and combative writer, bogglingly knowledgeable, and with granite-hard socialist convictions. He died following a struggle with esophageal cancer at the age 76 in San Diego on October 25.
The young Mike Davis. Verso
In his many books, starting with (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
From the 1980s until his death in California on October 22, Mike Davis was among the most influential Marxist theorists writing in the English language, says Phil Hearse.
I met him in London in 1982, where he was living at the time. Mike was one of the people who set up the Reagan Reception (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Mike Davis, the revolutionary socialist social and culture critic, has died. The Los Angeles Times , has written a comprehensive obituary about his very productive and complicated life.
I think it must have been 1967 when I first met Mike Davis. One day, studying with my friends Eric and (…)
, by UETRICHT Micah
The Marxist writer and activist Mike Davis died yesterday at the age of 76. His astonishing body of work will be impossible for anyone to replicate — but all of us can emulate his example of how to live and fight as an “old-school socialist.”
Writing about Mike Davis is a daunting task. You (…)
, by O’ROURKE Ciarán
Ciarán O’Rourke remembers the work of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
“If there was ever a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now.” So declared Mike Davis (1946-2022), in the 2016 preface to City of Quartz. “In cities like Los Angeles”, he observed in that monumental work (…)
, by HATHERLEY Owen
Mike Davis, the American geographer and historian, has died. There was no better socialist writer in the last four decades.
n around 2017 or 2018 I finally picked up the copy of Mike Davis’ The Monster at Our Door from the shelves where it had been sitting for a few years, and read it. Davis (…)
, by AMOVE Anthony
A tribute to Mike Davis from Haymarket Books editor Anthony Arnove.
What can one say about Mike Davis that has not been said already by so many who appreciated his brilliance, wit, clarity, and uncanny foresight?
Perhaps less has been said about Mike’s pugnaciousness, which was not an (…)
, by BECKETT Lois, DAVIS Mike
His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated
For decades, the southern California writer Mike Davis has obsessively documented the dark side of the Golden state - its wildfires, earthquakes, megalomaniac real (…)
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