The Impact of the Korean War

Hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Gregory Elich to discuss the anniversary of the beginning of the Korean war and how the US divided the peninsula, how the war has had lasting effects on both sides of the Korean Peninsula and led to intense repression of progressive political elements in the south, and why the Korean Peninsula is so important to US imperialism.

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The Dynamics of Rural Capitalist Accumulation in Post-Land Reform Zimbabwe

George T. Mudimu interviewed by Gregory Elich

Since the advent of British colonial occupation in the late nineteenth century, control of the land has been a contested issue in Zimbabwe. In what the British named Southern Rhodesia, they systematically stripped Indigenous peasants of land, cattle, and resources, crushing resistance with brutal violence.

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Book Launch of the New Edition of I. F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’

People’s Forum presentation co-sponsored by Monthly Review and the Korea Policy Institute.

The Korea Policy Institute’s Christine Hong and Martin Hart-Landsberg talk with the writers of the book’s new introduction, Tim Beal and Gregory Elich.

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