September 1, 2009
Marc Becker, Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 356 pages, $22.95, paperback. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (www.reddirtsite.com), a longtime activist, historian, writer,… READ MORE
July 1, 2009
Christina Schiavoni is co-director of an NGO based in New York City, where she specializes in food and agriculture issues. William Camacaro, originally from Venezuela, is co-founder of the Alberto… READ MORE
June 1, 2009
Hannah Holleman is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the… READ MORE
June 1, 2009
April Howard (april.m.howard [at] gmail.com) is a journalist and teacher of Latin American history at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and of high school social studies in… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
As we write these notes in late January 2009 the economic depression is worsening with each passing day, creating previously unthinkable conditions. Even as production sinks and unemployment soars in… READ MORE
February 1, 2009
In 1987, in the introduction to their Stagnation and Financial Explosion, Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy wrote: We both reached adulthood during the 1930s, and it was… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in the history of capitalism. However, while… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Diana Raby is senior fellow at the Research Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool (UK) and is also professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto. She… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Ricardo Alarcón De Quesada is president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s parliament. He was ambassador to the United Nations (1966–78 and 1990–92) and Cuba’s foreign minister (1992–93)…. READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Steve Brouwer is the author of Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang (Common Courage Press, 2003); Sharing the Pie: A Citizen’s Guide to Wealth and Power in… READ MORE