Notes from the Editors, April 2004
April 1, 2004
This is the fourth in a continuing series of special issues on the economy to which we have devoted the magazine each April since 2001. In the first of these,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
The Stagnation of Employment
April 1, 2004
Except in times of war, capitalist economies almost never reach full employment. The mere absence of jobs for those desiring paid employment, however, is not necessarily a problem for the… READ MORE
New Economy R.I.P.
April 1, 2004
Sasha Lilley is a producer of the program “Against the Grain” on Pacifica Radio’s KPFA and research coordinator at CorpWatch. Doug Henwood, After the New Economy (New York: The New… READ MORE
NAFTA’s Knife: Class Warfare Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
March 1, 2004
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based organizing and education center formed to raise awareness in the United States of issues facing the nations and peoples… READ MORE
Cuba: The Next Forty-Five Years?
January 1, 2004
István Mészaros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
Food Security in Cuba
January 1, 2004
Sinan Koont teaches economics and is coordinator of Latin American Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He thanks numerous friends and colleagues in the United States and Cuba for… READ MORE
Latin America and Underdevelopment
October 1, 2003
This is a slightly abridged version of a speech delivered by Leo Huberman to the Methodist Student Christian Citizenship Seminar on Latin America,on February 4,1964. It is being published here… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2003
July 1, 2003
John Bellamy Foster and Bob McChesney write: � The articles on imperialism in this special issue were all written in honor of Harry Magdoff’s ninetieth birthday. Most of them grew… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2003
June 1, 2003
The chief, indeed the only, justification that Washington offered for its invasion of Iraq during its build-up for war between September 2002 and March 2003, was the need to “disarm”… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2003
April 1, 2003
Truth and conscience, and with them art, are the first casualties of any war. The impending U.S. invasion of Iraq has already provided us with two major examples of this…. READ MORE