Notes from the Editors, June 2014
June 1, 2014
Samir Amin’s Review of the Month in this issue, “Popular Movements Toward Socialism,” offers a masterful analysis of struggles all over the world in the era of what he calls… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Popular Movements Toward Socialism: Their Unity and Diversity
June 1, 2014
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books published by Monthly Review Press include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, The… READ MORE
Labor and “Ed Deform”: The Degradation of Teachers’ Work through Standardized Testing and the New York City Evaluation System
June 1, 2014
John C. Antush is a public high school teacher in New York City, a delegate in the United Federation of Teachers, and a member of MORE (Movement of Rank and… READ MORE
Rupert Murdoch: Not Silent, But Deadly
June 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
Notes from the Editors, May 2014
May 1, 2014
Monthly Review celebrates its sixty-fifth anniversary with this issue. Today the causes for which the magazine has stood throughout its history—the struggle against capitalism and imperialism and the battle for… READ MORE
Stagnation and Financialization: The Nature of the Contradiction
May 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and a long-time commentator on political-economic topics. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review… READ MORE
Crisis, Recovery, and the Transitional Economy: The Struggle for Cooperative Ownership in Greensboro, North Carolina
May 1, 2014
Michael Joseph Roberto (mjroberto48 [at] gmail.com) is associate professor of history at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro. He is a longtime activist in local politics and… READ MORE
A Practical Solution to an Urgent Need
April 1, 2014
Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press, 2012). This old… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2014
March 1, 2014
This issue of Monthly Review is mainly devoted to two commemorations: for Paul Alexander Baran, who died fifty years ago this month; and for Hugo Rafael Chávez Friás, who died… READ MORE