What Happened to the Women’s Movement?
May 1, 2001
Barbara Epstein is a close friend and supporter of Monthly Review, and teaches in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Along with Marcy… READ MORE
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The New Economy: Myth and Reality
April 1, 2001
In the last few years the idea of a “New Economy” has gained wide currency, almost rivaling “globalization” as a neologism that characterizes our era. Thus The Economic Report of… READ MORE
Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism
March 1, 2001
Robert W. McChesney teaches at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is an Acting Editor of Monthly Review. A version of this essay was originally presented in November 2000 at… READ MORE
The Nader Campaign and the Future of U.S. Left Electoral Politics
February 1, 2001
The unlikely postelection contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, which ultimately led to the anointing of Bush as president by the Republican majority on the US Supreme Court… READ MORE
Capitalism’s Environmental CrisisÑIs Technology the Answer?
December 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is an acting editor, of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit:… READ MORE
Journalism, Democracy, É and Class Struggle
November 1, 2000
Robert W. McChesney teaches at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is an Acting Editor of Monthly Review. Portions of this essay appear in the preface to the paperback edition… READ MORE
Social Security, the Stock Market, and the Elections
October 1, 2000
Social Security was the crowning achievement of Roosevelt’s New Deal. It has been the most successful and still remains the most popular of all U.S. government programs. More than a… READ MORE
Socialism: A Time to Retreat?
September 1, 2000
Some wags claim that it is the conservatives who fear socialism, while the radicals believe that capitalism will last forever. Conservatives, they say, fear widespread popular discontent, while radicals abandon… READ MORE
Toward a New Internationalism
July 1, 2000
History, as if to warn us continuously against any tendency toward complacency, is full of ironies. As recently as a few months ago, the close of the twentieth century had… READ MORE
The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century
June 1, 2000
Samir Amin is director of Forum du Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal and the author of numerous books including Spectres of Capitalism (1998), Re-Reading the Postwar Period (1994), Empire of… READ MORE