A Progressive City Fights Back
June 1, 2017
Daniel M. Berman is a longtime activist for occupational safety and workers’ rights. His books include Death on the Job (Monthly Review Press, 1979). Steve Early, Refinery Town: Big Oil,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Notes from the Editors, May 2017
May 1, 2017
The Review of the Month in the April 2017 issue of MR, “Neofascism in the White House,” by John Bellamy Foster, pointed out that the Trump administration has been exceedingly… READ MORE
Trump’s America: Rethinking 1984 and Brave New World
May 1, 2017
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University, Ontario. He is the author of many books, including America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review… READ MORE
Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
May 1, 2017
Martin Empson is the author of Land and Labour (Bookmarks, 2014). Capitalism has, to put it mildly, a peculiar relationship with the natural world.1 Karl Marx perhaps summarized it best… READ MORE
A Radical Invitation for Latin America: The Legacy of Andre Gunder Frank’s ‘Development of Underdevelopment’
May 1, 2017
Felipe Antunes de Oliveira is a PhD candidate in international relations and an associate tutor at the University of Sussex. � In September 1966, Monthly Review published an article that… READ MORE
Singing for Women’s Lives in Chile
May 1, 2017
Maxine Lowy is a Santiago-based journalist and translator, and the author of Memoria latente (LOM Ediciones, 2016). Elizabeth Vilma Uribe and her husband, Alan Velasquez, were known to their neighbors… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2017
April 1, 2017
Much has been made of the support of white workers, including union members, for Donald Trump. But while Kim Moody (“Who Put Trump in the White House?“) and others have… READ MORE
Neofascism in the White House
April 1, 2017
There is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is beginning to fall across the land. Call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will; it… READ MORE
Who Is Behind the Assault on Public Schools?
April 1, 2017
Howard Ryan is an education activist and a former college English instructor. His book Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut was published by Monthly Review Press in… READ MORE
A Teachers Union Against Itself: Organized Labor and the Crisis at City College of San Francisco
April 1, 2017
Rick Baum has taught political science at City College of San Francisco since 1997. A member of American Federation of Teachers Local 2121, he has been active in efforts to… READ MORE