Archive of Jim Plank
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Mike Davis: Social Distancing, Not Home Arrest
The combined effects of fear, confinement, income loss and the potential destruction of family savings augur a mental-health crisis on an even larger scale than the pandemic itself. Consider solidarity an essential vaccine.
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A Message of Solidarity from Haymarket Books
We at Haymarket Books want to express our solidarity with all of you in this difficult and tenuous time. Our staff is actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and our main priority is the safety and well-being of our staff and our authors.
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Mike Davis on COVID-19: The monster is at the door
Capitalist globalization now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure. But such an infrastructure will never exist until peoples’ movements break the power of Big Pharma and for-profit healthcare.
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John Sayles On Tour
Filmmaker and author John Sayles will hit the road in February for a national book tour to discuss Yellow Earth, “his densely textured, overtly political fifth novel”.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on MLK’s Radical Anticapitalism
Towards the end of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr. began to publicly articulate an anticapitalist analysis of the United States that put him in sync with rising critiques from the global revolutionary left of market-based economies.