A Portrait of Gil Green
January 1, 2021
Michael Myerson is an author and lifelong activist for civil rights, peace, and labor rights. He lives in the Hudson Valley. � For nearly thirty-five years, Gil Green was my… READ MORE
Article Author: John J. Simon
Pete Seeger, Socialist Songster: Introduction
January 1, 2015
Amy Schrager Lang taught U.S. literature and culture for thirty-five years; she is the author of scholarly books and articles and the co-editor, most recently, of Dreaming in Public: Building… READ MORE
Aimé Fernand Césaire (1913-2008): The Clarity of Struggle
June 1, 2008
And you lied to me so much, about the world, about myself, that you ended up by imposing on me an image of myself:underdeveloped, in your words, undercompetentthat’s how you… READ MORE
The Death and Life of Che
November 1, 2007
When he was an editor at Random House, John J. Simon published the first English-language paperback edition of Guevara’s Guerrilla Warfare (originally published in cloth by Monthly Review Press). �… READ MORE
Rebel in the House: The Life and Times of Vito Marcantonio
March 1, 2006
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. You only live once and it is… READ MORE
Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile
May 1, 2005
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the… READ MORE
The Achievement of Malcolm X
February 1, 2005
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. It is tempting to speculate how the… READ MORE
Leo Huberman: Radical Agitator, Socialist Teacher
October 1, 2003
John J. Simon, a writer, editor, and broadcaster, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. This month marks the centennial of the birth of Leo Huberman, who, with Paul… READ MORE
‘Unacknowledged Legislators’: Poets Protest the War (Introduction)
April 1, 2003
All of the poems published here have appeared on the poetsagainstthewar.org web site. They are copyrighted by their respective authors and cannot be reprinted without permission. The poems were selected… READ MORE
Remembering Nora Sayre
October 1, 2001
John J. Simon, has been a book editor and a broadcaster. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. � What follows is a chapter from Nora Sayre’s Running… READ MORE