Another superb #marxism23 mtg. This time Judith Orr, author of Abortion Wars, on the fight to defend Abortion Rights. Here talking about how the loss of Roe V Wade has hit 26 million women in US who no longer have access to Abortion and the right to decide about their own bodies.

My latest book review looks at Alex Callinicos' indispensable guide to navigating the terrain of reaction and revolution in the 21st century: "The New Age of Catastrophe". Highly recommended. http://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2023/05/alex-callinicos-new-age-of-catastrophe.html #marxism #marx #socialist

This is a pretty good review of Kohei Saito's Marx in the Anthropocene by Tim Christiaens which echoes some of my own thoughts. Though I am sceptical that the phrase "libidinal economies of the oppressed" is helpful in any context. https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20858_marx-in-the-anthropocene-towards-the-idea-of-degrowth-communism-by-kohei-saito-reviewed-by-tim-christiaens/

The #Manchester vigil for Brianna Ghey was huge & deeply moving. It reminded me of the big gap between the media portrayal of trans people as having no support and reality: 1000s of people are shocked angry at what has happened & stand with our trans friends. #TransRightsNow

"It is deeply researched, sensibly structured, and possessed of a fundamentally impoverished view of environmental history... Indeed, this has been Brinkley’s formula for decades: Take a revered, powerful figure, claim that this figure has been cruelly maligned by the left and right, and then, with post-partisan aplomb, reassure the reader that, yes, the figure really was as great as you thought." https://newrepublic.com/article/169903/problem-silent-spring-environmentalism-douglas-brinkley-book-review

Terrifying.
"In Poland, it was so warm that the January national high-temperature record was broken before sunrise. The town of Glucholazy was 65.7 degrees at 4 a.m., which is warmer than its average low temperature in midsummer." https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/02/record-warm-new-year-europe/

"Capitalism remains a global system of competitive accumulation. It imposes its imperative demands on all state managers, however corrupt or deluded they may be." https://socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callinicos/the-role-of-the-state-in-profit-making-today/