A Question of Place
December 1, 2015
Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) was a contributor to Monthly Review for over forty years. With her late husband James Boggs, she co-authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (Monthly… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Notes from the Editors, November 2015
November 1, 2015
To understand why the Middle East is now in shambles, with the United States currently involved simultaneously in wars against both the Assad government in Syria and the Islamic State… READ MORE
The Great Capitalist Climacteric: Marxism and “System Change Not Climate Change”
November 1, 2015
This article is from a keynote address presented at Manifesta in Ostend, Belgium on September 19, 2015. This year’s Manifesta was organized around the theme of climate change in preparation… READ MORE
Wars Past and Wars to Come
November 1, 2015
John Newsinger is Professor of Modern History at Bath Spa University. His books include The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire, Fighting Back: The American Working… READ MORE
Baran and Sweezy’s ‘Monopoly Capital’, Then and Now
November 1, 2015
Benjamin Feldman is a graduate student in history at Georgetown University researching Baran and Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital as part of a larger project engaging with the politics of economic thought… READ MORE
From Incarceration to Decarceration: The Need to Abolish Prisons
November 1, 2015
Aviva Stahl is a Brooklyn-based independent journalist who focuses on prison issues. She primarily writes about solitary confinement and the communities that experience the greatest marginalization on the inside, including… READ MORE
Cotton: The Fabric of Death
November 1, 2015
J. Lichtenstein is an Ivy League graduate and former cotton merchant who is now a food service worker in Tennessee struggling to build unity and someday socialism in the lower… READ MORE
A Torture Machine: The Violent Story of Slavery and the Beginning of American Capitalism
November 1, 2015
T.W. Walker is a Southern activist, mostly as a rank-and-file public-sector clerical worker helping organize a non-majority union. � Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and… READ MORE
Puerto Rico: The Crisis Is About Colonialism, Not Debt
October 1, 2015
Linda Backiel is a criminal defense attorney practicing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tourists are fascinated by the heavy blue cobblestones that pave the streets of Old San Juan. Why… READ MORE
Interview with Bill Gallegos
October 1, 2015
Elly Leary is a former autoworker, office worker, and labor educator who has held many union offices, including bargaining chair. She is a longtime contributor to Monthly Review. Anne Lewis… READ MORE