Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this…
The First Thing I have two favorite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack…
Interview on the opposition to neoliberalism and the prospects for a socialist alternative in Latin America today
To respond to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor requires much more than concentration upon global warming and climate change
The lesson of Syriza should be to never forget the concept of revolutionary practice – the simultaneous changing of circumstances and human activity or self-change
The following interview with Michael Lebowitz was recently published in Novosti, a left-wing newspaper in Zagreb, Croatia. Michael A. Lebowitz is professor emeritus of…
Presentation by Michael Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University. [Parts 2,3, and 4 below] "Workers Control, Workers Councils…
At the Centro Internacional Miranda, I had a chance to converse with Lebowitz, a professor from the Simon Fraser University in British…
Caracas, October 30, 2007: Produced as part of Centro Internacional Miranda’s Transformative Practice and Human Development, directed by Michael Lebowitz. Posted on:…
Michael Lebowitz addresses the World at a Crossroads conference. Photo by Alex Bainbridge. Michael Lebowitz has recently been in Australia…
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