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THE ECONOMIST MAY 6, 2001 US Imperialism The American flag is habitually burnt publically around the world by anti-imperialists while the Un...

“The Grass – A Young Man’s Journey to the Korean War” – Paul Zerby, 2009 Minneapolis’ own Paul Zerby has written a fictional account of a f...

As I've been arguing for quite some time, the problem in the USA is not the right; it's the left. More specifically, what masquerade...

“The Coming Insurrection” by the Invisible Committee, 2007 French edition, 2009 English Ed. This slim philosophical book was written by fr...

The following is a lucidly written essay by Nitzan and Bichler on the evolution of the terms "imperialism" and "financialism...

“The Great Crash, 1929,” by John Kenneth Galbraith, with 1988 forward, 1954 – 1988 This classic, recently cited by Rolling Stone’s Matt Tia...

If you were a Mayday volunteer, this would be your view of the store!

Stacked Chairs Making sure Mayday's chairs are stored correctly is an important task in book store management. Here, for the record, are...

Dahr Jamail Great book. Great author. Come to our next event: Dahr Jamail in Minneapolis

“Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary” – by Nelson Peery, 2007 Minnesota’s own Nelson Peery tells his story of his rev...

BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD. The U.S. health care is very good for many people including me---but it is not very good for the 40 million p...

“American Assassination – The Strange Death of Paul Wellstone” – by Four Arrows and Jim Fetzer, 2004 Are you a ‘conspiracy nut?’ This is the...

I was at a meeting at Mayday Books about ten days back. This was one where anyone who was so inclined was allowed to speak for two minutes, ...

Dedicated empire-watchers like myself have long been arguing that the days of the US imperium are numbered. But the argument for this positi...

Here is an interesting article in today's Guardian : The most recent walkouts have naturally focused on jobs, as insecurity grips the la...

Ecology & Marxism – Do They Connect? Most older Marxists – no matter what tradition – were brought up thinking that the ‘production’ of ...

NO SOCIAL SECURITY FOR YOU, DUDE! The Wizards of Wall Street have convinced millions of younger Americans that there will be no money for th...

In the last few days there have been three articles devoted to the imminent demise of US financial hegemony -- a corollary of which will be ...

Let Us Now Praise the Dead! The Grateful Dead got their start in 1965 in the Bay area. They are on tour this summer again, 45 years after th...

California Upholds Ban on Gay Marriage: Build a National Movement for Equal Rights Now! ...