Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster, co-founder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, Against the Grain. She is the author of Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a TIme of Tumult, and the series editor of PM Press’ political economy imprint, Spectre.
Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth is a collection of essays published by PM Press that explores the politics of…
The end of history arrives today. While the Maya never actually predicted that the world would end on 12.21.12, apocalypse tourists have…
Howard Zinn, in one of his last interviews, talks to Sasha Lilley about a synthesis of anarchism and Marxism, the Paris Commune, and…
Sasha Lilley: This past Wednesday, before the start of the G20 Summit in London, France and Germany asked for more regulation as…
The Tyson Fresh Meats beef slaughter and processing facility in Pasco, Washington is an industrial tower of Babel. Fifteen hundred workers from…
The sprawling state of Mato Grosso, in central west Brazil, could be thought a paradise of sorts, at least from a distance.…
British Member of Parliament George Galloway says that a plan for the division of the Middle East is circulating in the corridors…
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