China 2020: An Introduction
October 1, 2020
The history of capitalism has been punctuated by periodic struggles for hegemony over the world economy, leading to a centuries-long series of world wars.1 In the twenty-first century, all signs… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
U.S.-China Trade War: Has the Real “Thief” Finally Been Unmasked?
October 1, 2020
Zhiming Long is an associate professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Zhixuan Feng is an assistant professor at Nankai University in Tianjin. Bangxi Li is an associate professor at Tsinghua… READ MORE
COVID-19, Economic Depression, and the Black Lives Matter Protests: Will the Triple Crisis Bring a Working-Class Revolt in the United States?
September 1, 2020
Michael D. Yates is Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review Press, 2018). He wishes to thank… READ MORE
India, COVID-19, the United States, and China
September 1, 2020
The Research Unit for political Economy, based in Mumbai, India, publishes the journal Aspects of India’s Economy and a range of research publications in English, Hindi, and other Indian languages…. READ MORE
A Violent Guatemala
September 1, 2020
Jane Duran teaches in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. � Among ethnic disasters of the past few decades, few can match in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2020
July 1, 2020
As this special issue of Monthly Review on racial capitalism goes to the printer, the entire United States has been upended by more than a week of protests and riots,… READ MORE
Examining the Wreckage
July 1, 2020
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and the author of Our History Is… READ MORE
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
July 1, 2020
Charisse Burden-Stelly is an assistant professor of Africana Studies and political science at Carleton College. In 2020–21, she will serve as the Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Race and Capitalism… READ MORE
Race Is About More Than Discrimination: Racial Capitalism, the Settler State, and the Challenges Facing Organized Labor in the United States
July 1, 2020
Bill Fletcher Jr. is the executive editor of globalafricanworker.com, a former president of TransAfrica Forum, and a longtime leftist trade unionist and writer. Though almost a cliché, it is worth… READ MORE
Poultry and Prisons: Toward a General Strike for Abolition
July 1, 2020
Carrie Freshour is a Southerner and assistant professor of geography at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on low-wage food and agricultural labor in the U.S. South, race and… READ MORE