Via the Workers Party of Ireland The great scholar, writer, and educator Michael Parenti, who has passed away aged 92, had the rare ability to clearly and entertainingly explain complex ideas and his work cast an unflinching gaze on class power at home in his native USA and elsewhere in contexts as varied as the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Yugoslavia in its dying days, and the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Throughout his work he exposed ruling class power and the lengths

Michael Parenti, the iconic Marxist and anti-imperialist scholar has died at age 92. According to multiple sources, he passed away peacefully this morning (January 24), surrounded by his family. A renowned American political scientist, academic historian, cultural critic, and activist, widely recognized for his penetrating analyses of politics, history, and society, Parenti was born on September 30, 1933, in New York City. He grew up in a working-class family and has recounte

Excerpts from an essay by the great Michael Parenti -- Monopoly and Culture -- in Political Affairs Magazine (a journal of the Communist...

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism! -- Daily LIFT #573 In honour of the 104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...

If we want to celebrate 1917 we must also look more deeply at what came after. There is much to celebrate there as well. This piece was originally written to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. By Michael Laxer The counter-revolution in the Soviet Union was a catastrophe for the forces of socialism and anti-imperialism both within the USSR and its republics, and internationally, including here in the allegedly advanced capitalist west. Despit