Articles
Unearthing Woody Guthrie’s Lost Novel
March 1, 2014
Scott Borchert (scott [at] monthlyreview.org) works at Monthly Review Press and is studying cultural reporting and criticism at New York University. Woody Guthrie (author), Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp (editors),… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2014
February 1, 2014
A comparison of the present state of the natural sciences with that of the social (or human) sciences cannot but give rise to a disquieting sense of the relative poverty… READ MORE
Sharp Left Turn for the Media Reform Movement: Toward a Post-Capitalist Democracy
February 1, 2014
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the… READ MORE
Saving Our Unions: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win?
February 1, 2014
Steve Early was a national union representative and organizer for twenty-seven years. He is the author of three books about labor. This article is excerpted from his new book Save… READ MORE
Social Inequities and Exclusions in Kerala’s ‘Egalitarian’ Development
February 1, 2014
C.U. Thresia was trained in anthropology, social medicine, and community health; her research interests span politics and history of public health, and women’s health. She is currently pursuing research on… READ MORE
Reflections on the New International: Dedicated to the Memory and Legacy of President Hugo Chávez
February 1, 2014
István Mészáros is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. His books include Beyond Capital, Socialism or Barbarism, The Structural… READ MORE
Three Cheers (Almost) for Gus Speth
February 1, 2014
Daniel Berman, activist and author, has worked for years in the occupational health movement and the push to democratize energy. His major books are Death on the Job (which he… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2014
January 1, 2014
On November 16, 2013, Paul Krugman published a piece on his New York Times blog entitled “Secular Stagnation, Coalmines, Bubbles, and Larry Summers,” consisting of an extended commentary on former… READ MORE
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