Organizing for Better Lives
May 1, 2016
Daniel M. Berman is a longtime activist for occupational safety and workers’ rights. His books include Death on the Job and Who Owns the Sun? Todd Jailer, Miriam Lara-Meloy, and… READ MORE
Articles
Notes from the Editors, April 2016
April 1, 2016
The March/April 2016 issue of Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, is devoted in large part to the topic of economic stagnation. The editorial by Jonathan Tepperman,… READ MORE
Marx’s Theory of Working-Class Precariousness: Its Relevance Today
April 1, 2016
R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for production at Monthly Review. His previous article for the magazine, “Braverman and the Structure of the U.S. Working Class,” also written with John… READ MORE
The Broken BBC: From Public Service to Corporate Power
April 1, 2016
Gavin Lewis is a British freelance writer and academic who has taught critical theory, film, and cultural studies at several UK universities. In the face of austerity cuts to state… READ MORE
A New Economy of Knowledge
April 1, 2016
Longtime Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press author Richard Levins died on January 19, 2016, at the age of eighty-five. A polymath, he studied agriculture, mathematics, genetics, evolution, ecology, and… READ MORE
Living the Eleventh Thesis
April 1, 2016
Philosophers have sought to understand the world. The point, however, is to change it. � —Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, No. 11 � When I was a boy I always… READ MORE
Realists of a Larger Reality: On New Science Fiction
April 1, 2016
Amy Schrager Lang is an emeritus professor of English at Syracuse University. Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky is an activist, artist, and writer based in Brooklyn. Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last… READ MORE
The Opt Out Revolt: Democracy and Education
March 1, 2016
In the United States today, the age of monopoly-finance capital and neoliberal politics, all aspects of social life are being financialized at breakneck speed, while the economy as a whole… READ MORE
The Testing Resistance and Reform Movement
March 1, 2016
Monty Neill, Ed.D., is Executive Director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. A longtime testing activist, he is the author and editor of many books, reports,… READ MORE