John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review. will be speaking in New York City on Saturday, October 20 at 2:30 PM at New York University's Silver Center. John will be discussing his new book, The Endless Crisis:How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China. This book has received a good deal of pre-publication publicity, including in the UK Guardian and the Toronto Star. For details, see http://monthlyreview.org/press/news/john-bellamy-foster-in-nyc-oct-20/.
Ronnie Kasrils, South African revolutionary, politician, and writer, will be speaking in New York City on Monday, October 22 at 6:30 PM at the Riverside Church. Ronnie is the author of The Unlikely Secret Agent (published in the US by MR Press book, a remarkable and exciting story about his wife Eleanor's life as a secret agent for the anti-apartheid forces. This book won the Alan Paton award for nonfiction. For details, see http://monthlyreview.org/press/news/ronnie-kasrils-in-nyc-oct-22/. Louis Proyect reviewed this book on his blog The Unrepentant Marxist.