The Plight of the U.S. Working Class
January 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
Article Sections: Review of the Month
Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature
December 1, 2013
This article is an expanded and slightly altered version of a keynote address under the same title presented to the Marxism 2013 Conference in Stockholm on October 20, 2013. That… READ MORE
Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs: Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession
November 1, 2013
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of The Great Financial Crisis (2009) and What… READ MORE
The Epochal Crisis
October 1, 2013
Parts of the argument on epochal crisis here were presented in three overlapping keynote addresses in: (1) Esslingen, Germany on May 30, 2013 at a conference on Marxist thought organized… READ MORE
The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement
June 1, 2013
Eric (Rico) Gutstein is a professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois-Chicago and is active in the movement against education privatization. He is the author of Reading… READ MORE
Who Will Lead the U.S. Working Class?
May 1, 2013
Michael D. Yates(mikedjyates [at] msn.com) is associate editor of Monthly Review and editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Why Unions Matter and Cheap Motels and… READ MORE
Marx, Kalecki, and Socialist Strategy
April 1, 2013
A historical perspective on the economic stagnation afflicting the United States and the other advanced capitalist economies requires that we go back to the severe downturn of 1974–1975, which marked… READ MORE
Class War and Labor’s Declining Share
March 1, 2013
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
February 1, 2013
Humanity is not a bunch of lemmings marching unstoppably toward a cliff. There is such a thing as free will…. People please wake up! For the sake of young people,… READ MORE