September 1, 2019
Margaret Benston’s publication fifty years ago of “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” commemorated in the present issue of Monthly Review, sparked a revolution in Marxian thought, generating a new… READ MORE
July 1, 2019
Cover image: “Trump” by Stefan Gua. Gua is a Mauritian artist and political activist who believes that art should be a crucial element in building movements for change. He works… READ MORE
June 1, 2019
As we write this in mid–April 2019, the situation in Venezuela has become extremely dire due to Washington’s heightened economic warfare, its continuing attempts to engineer a political coup, and… READ MORE
May 1, 2019
Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine is now seventy years old. Its first issue appeared in May 1949. In all, 778 issues of the magazine have been published, including the… READ MORE
April 1, 2019
In the midst of the U.S.-directed coup attempt against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in January–February, Donald Trump delivered a number of verbal attacks on socialism in Venezuela, Cuba, and… READ MORE
April 1, 2019
We agree with Michael Roberts that Marxists do not “own the expression” financialization. We disagree, however, with respect to the importance of the actual historical phenomenon represented by financialization and… READ MORE
March 1, 2019
As we write these notes in the first week of February 2019, the United States is openly directing a political-economic coup in Venezuela. At the same time, it has announced… READ MORE
February 1, 2019
Cover image adapted from the mural by Banksy in Brooklyn, NY. See Benjamin Sutton, “Banksy Blitz Continues in NYC with New Murals in Brooklyn,” hyperallergic, March 19, 2018. Climatologist James… READ MORE
January 1, 2019
In this issue of Monthly Review, we are reprinting the celebrated Combahee River Collective Statement, which first appeared as a movement document in April 1977, with the final, definitive version… READ MORE
December 1, 2018
With the dramatic rise of eco-Marxism in recent years, a corresponding revolution has been taking place in studies of the human-nonhuman animal relationship. Previous critical analyses with respect to the… READ MORE