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Notes from the Editors, September 2017
September 1, 2017
The publication last month of The Age of Monopoly Capital: The Selected Correspondence of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, 1949–1964, edited by Nicholas Baran and John Bellamy Foster,… READ MORE
The Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Society
September 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. His latest book is Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. This article is a… READ MORE
The Russians Are Coming, Again
September 1, 2017
Jeremy Kuzmarov is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tulsa and the author, most recently, of Modernizing Repression (University of Massachusetts, 2012). John Marciano is professor emeritus… READ MORE
Africa Rising’ in Retreat: New Signs of Resistance
September 1, 2017
Patrick Bond is a professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His most recent book, coedited with Ana Garcia, is BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (Haymarket,… READ MORE
The Struggle for Shelter: Class Conflict and Public Housing in Britain
September 1, 2017
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo in Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. In his 1872… READ MORE
Theorists and Thieves
September 1, 2017
Dhruv Jain holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University, and has written widely on politics, philosophy, and social movements. Gabriel Kuhn, ed., Turning Money into Rebellion:… READ MORE
The Need for Ecological Restoration
September 1, 2017
Rebecca Clausen is a professor of sociology at Fort Lewis College, and coauthor, with Stefano B. Longo and Brett Clark, of The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2017
July 1, 2017
Monthly Review, we never tire of pointing out, is subtitled An Independent Socialist Magazine. From the beginning, this meant that MR was associated with no particular socialist political party, grouping,… READ MORE
Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1917Ð2017
July 1, 2017
The Russian Revolution of 1917 erupted on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. From the start, the October Revolution seemed both to confirm and contradict Marx’s… READ MORE