What they call acts of god
May 1, 2013
� How gorgeous is the snow and deadly.�The roads are gone under its drifts.�Hundreds of thousands without power�in a frozen world where the wind�howls like a pack of coywolves. �… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Memories of the Afro-Caribbean Left
April 1, 2013
Paul Buhle is the author of C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary and Tim Hector, Caribbean Radical. Clairmont Chung, editor, Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution (New York: Monthly… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2013
March 1, 2013
The history of capitalism is replete with cases of successful captains of industry who, suddenly concerned with their place in history, decide to write a book celebrating their achievements, while… READ MORE
Class War and Labor’s Declining Share
March 1, 2013
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
The Man Who Was Over the Rainbow
March 1, 2013
Albert Ruben is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantánamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012). He… READ MORE
Cuban Urban Agriculture as a Strategy for Food Sovereignty
March 1, 2013
Christina Ergas is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon. Sinan Koont, Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011), 208 pages, $74.95,… READ MORE
Examining the Bases of Power, Inequality, and Human Variation
March 1, 2013
Stefano B. Longo is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. His research examines the relations between social and natural systems and… READ MORE
Notes on a Life in Struggle
March 1, 2013
Sara Falconer is a Toronto journalist and social media manager who helps produce Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. As part of the Toronto Anarchist Black Cross, she also… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2013
February 1, 2013
For a long time now orthodox economics has been hindered by its extreme irrealism—a refusal even to attempt a realistic theoretical understanding of how modern capitalism functions. The shift to… READ MORE