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May 11, 2024 | 
mronline.org | Michael Yates |Ian Mohr
As Israel began its genocide in Gaza, those who manage U.S. colleges and universities also commenced to issue statements of outrage at what Hamas had done. And as campus protests erupted in condemnation of the slaughter of Gazans, and especially children, and the destruction of homes and every major institution, including hospitals, these same institutions of highher learning began to disrupt these protests and bring them to an end.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
mronline.org | Farooque Chowdhury |Michael Yates
Begin by Asking Questions about One’s Own Life CircumstancesFarooque Chowdhury: What advice in terms of studying can you give to someone committed to the cause of the exploited? Michael Yates: The first thing is to begin to ask questions about your own life circumstances. Let’s consider some examples. Suppose you are unemployed, marginally employed, or what is called an “own account” worker, a person trying to make a living by being a street vendor or something similar.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
mronline.org | Farooque Chowdhury |Michael Yates
The emancipation of labor is one of the foremost questions in all exploitative societies and societies in transition. Labor itself demands looking at this issue deeply, not simply in an abstract way but concretely in all of its aspects, from the nature of work to the efforts by workers to end their exploitation alongside those who seek to prevent labor’s emancipation. Michael D.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
monthlyreview.org | Chaman Lal |Michael Yates
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
portside.org | Michael Yates
‘Ballad of an American’: The Illustrious Life of Paul Robeson, Newly Illustrated Published November 30, 2023 One of my favorite Paul Robeson songs is “Jacob’s Ladder.” It originated as a slave spiritual, based upon the Biblical story of a dream that Jacob, the patriarch and leader of the Israelites, once had. A ladder went from Earth to heaven, with angels traversing up and down it. For enslaved people, it signified the hope that they could climb out of slavery and into freedom.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
mronline.org | Michael Yates
The list of negative things one can say about Joe Biden gets longer by the day. He refused to countenance negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. He, his son, and his advisors, both when he was Vice President and now as President, have been knee-deep in Ukrainian corruption and in fomenting unrest and a coup against the legitimate government of former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
monthlyreview.org | Michael Yates
is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and write for and with the working class, and not just about it. He has helped organize labor unions and written extensively about them. His latest book is Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, published by Monthly Review Press.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Aaron Leonard |Anton Woronczuk |Michael Yates |Lois Weiner
The current focus of the U.S.’s never-ending culture war comes in the form of the song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” by Oliver Anthony, aka Christopher Anthony Lunsford, a former factory worker, who has been open about his battles with alcoholism and depression. Riding a wave of viral attention, “Rich Men” has now spent two weeks at the number 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.
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May 22, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Yates
Minerals and raw materials are the building blocks of industrial capitalism. No industrial revolutions would have been possible without iron, coal, copper, rubber, and similar substances. The extraction of such materials from the earth has been, without exception, a human enterprise mired in misery, in which one small class of persons viciously exploited other more numerous classes of workers and peasants, with the sole aim of making as much money as possible.
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Feb 22, 2023 | 
monthlyreview.org | Michael Yates
Work Work WorkBy Michael Yates216 pages / $19 / 978-1-58367-965-4Reviewed by Farooque Chowdhury….Michael Yates makes a clear statement: Work today is “a profoundly alienating endeavor, and it must be abolished if human beings are to thrive, and the world is not to succumb to environmental disaster.
