Notes from the Editors, February 2015
February 1, 2015
John Cassidy, who writes on economics for the New Yorker, is in our view one of the most interesting and creative commentators on economic analysis and trends writing in the… READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, January 2015
January 1, 2015
The publication of socialist books in the United States has always encountered serious institutional obstacles. This can be seen in the enormous hurdles that stood in the way of the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2014
December 1, 2014
In 1832, when the global cholera pandemic was approaching Manchester—as a young Frederick Engels was later to recount in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)—“a universal terror… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2014
November 1, 2014
On September 20, 2014, while corporate and government officials arrived in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, organizers and activists from around the world participated in a peoples’… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2014
October 1, 2014
Secular stagnation (or the trend towards long-term slow growth and continuing high unemployment/underemployment) has become a big issue in the mature economies since 2013, when former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2014
July 1, 2014
Allusions to Marx seem to be emanating from all points of the political compass these days in the context of the current political-economic crisis of capitalism, reflecting the remarkable resurgence… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2014
June 1, 2014
Samir Amin’s Review of the Month in this issue, “Popular Movements Toward Socialism,” offers a masterful analysis of struggles all over the world in the era of what he calls… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2014
May 1, 2014
Monthly Review celebrates its sixty-fifth anniversary with this issue. Today the causes for which the magazine has stood throughout its history—the struggle against capitalism and imperialism and the battle for… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2014
April 1, 2014
The insidious nature of the economy, state, and cultural apparatus of global monopoly-finance capital is difficult to perceive—if only because it is to be found everywhere we look. Focusing on… READ MORE