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, by WALD Alan
ELLEN SPENCE POTEET, a former editor of Against the Current (ATC) and member of Solidarity, died at age 64 of an unknown illness in early April 2024 in the town of Batouri in the East Region of Cameroon. At the time, Ellen was on leave from her position as Lecturer in the History Department of (…)
, by TALLY Robert T. Jr.
Fredric Jameson, arguably the leading cultural critic in the world and certainly the most influential Marxist critic of our time, died at the age of ninety on September 22, 2024. The news came as a shock to many of us, for Jameson was as active as ever in his final years. In 2024 alone, he (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
This is the latest in a series of articles on Black candidates for President or Vice-President of the United States. Links to all of the articles in the series can be found at thi end of this one. – DL
Dr. Cornel West, one of America’s most distinguished Black intellectuals, announced in June (…)
, by Dignity Memorial
IN THE CARE OF Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary
Norma Barzman lived an amazing 103 years across the twentieth century and beyond. Her parents Samuel and Goldie Levor welcomed her into life on September 15, 1920 in New York City, ten years after her sister Muriel. (…)
, par BARZMAN John
Text of give-away at Memorial Service in Los Angeles, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2023
Her parents Samuel and Goldie Levor welcomed her into life on September 15, 1920 in New York City, ten years after her sister Muriel. She sometimes regretted that she was expected to replace Linda, another (…)
, par BUHLE Paul
A LARGE STORY in American culture has now drawn to a chronological end with the death of sometime screenwriter Norma Barzman, age 103.
Her actual screen credits were few, in part because she left Hollywood for Paris with her better-known husband, Ben Barzman, as McCarthyism made further film (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. This series of articles explores the experience of Black political candidates for the nation’s highest (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
This article is written in collaboration with Roland Sheppard, who was an eyewitness in the auditorium, the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, and has closely followed the case and written and spoken about it since.
After breaking with the Nation of Islam (…)
, by FUENTES Federico
Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, whose contributions to reviving Karl Marx’s vision of socialism are essential reading for activists.
Lebowitz built on his (…)
, by ELLSBERG Daniel
Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg. (Free Getty embed, Paul J. RIchards)
Dear friends and supporters,
I have (…)
, 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 (…)
, by KENNEDY Hank
The Left was on the rise—and under threat—in the mid-1960s. Hank Kennedy tells the story of a hometown comrade who was a target of anti-communist violence.
It was dangerous to be a dissenter in 1966. In April, the headquarters of the San Francisco-based, anti-Vietnam War, Vietnam Day (…)
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