Notes from the Editors, June 2006
June 1, 2006
In April 2000 Robert W. (Bob) McChesney and John Bellamy Foster joined Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy as coeditors of MR. In December 2002, while still coeditor of MR, Bob,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Notes from the Editors, May 2006
May 1, 2006
When MRzine was launched on Bastille Day, July 14, 2005, Eduardo Galeano greeted it with the words: “Monthly Review in conquest of the air? Wasn’t it a private kingdom of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2006
February 1, 2006
The victory of Evo Morales, presidential candidate of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), in Bolivia’s December elections was a world-historical event of the first order. Its extent was unexpected, certainly… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2006
January 1, 2006
The United States is currently engaged in what the media—with no trace of irony—is calling “the national debate on torture.” With the White House adamantly rejecting Senator John McCain’s amendment… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2005
December 1, 2005
At the end of October John Bellamy Foster and Martin Hart-Landsberg (coauthor with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism and author of Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S. Foreign Policy—both published… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2005
November 1, 2005
Speaking in New York to the United Nations in September Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delivered a fiery speech sharply critical of U.S. imperialism and what he called a “frightening neoliberal… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2005
October 1, 2005
The much-anticipated split in the AFL-CIO, the labor federation in the United States, took place in Chicago, at the federation’s annual convention. Three unions—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the… READ MORE
Hugo Chávez on the Failed Coup
September 1, 2005
Marta Harnecker is director of Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She is… READ MORE
The FARC-EP in Colombia: A Revolutionary Exception in an Age of Imperialist Expansion
September 1, 2005
James J. Brittain studies and teaches sociology at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. His research interests center on revolutionary and social movements throughout Latin America, the relevance of classical… READ MORE
Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia: Searching for Revolutionary Democracy
September 1, 2005
Jeffery R. Webber studies and teaches political science at the University of Toronto. He currently lives in Bolivia and is a member of the Canadian New Socialist Group.The author thanks… READ MORE