September 1, 2018
Lekgantshi Console Tleane is a research associate in the Change Management Unit of the Office of the Principal and Vice Chancellor at the University of South Africa. Nearly a quarter-century… READ MORE
April 1, 2018
Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston and the author of more than three dozen books. This article is… READ MORE
December 1, 2017
In June 2017, István Mészáros sent me a copy of the present article for publication in Monthly Review. At the time, he asked if I would write an introduction, as… READ MORE
July 1, 2017
Bernard D’Mello is deputy editor of Economic and Political Weekly. The crisis of the ruling order that unfolded in Russia in 1917 brought on an enormous social upheaval, culminating in… READ MORE
May 1, 2017
Martin Empson is the author of Land and Labour (Bookmarks, 2014). Capitalism has, to put it mildly, a peculiar relationship with the natural world.1 Karl Marx perhaps summarized it best… READ MORE
September 1, 2016
This article is adapted from the foreword to Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016). For it is because… READ MORE
March 1, 2016
In the United States today, the age of monopoly-finance capital and neoliberal politics, all aspects of social life are being financialized at breakneck speed, while the economy as a whole… READ MORE
December 1, 2015
Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) was a contributor to Monthly Review for over forty years. With her late husband James Boggs, she co-authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (Monthly… READ MORE
June 1, 2015
In two Monthly Review special issues, “Education Under Fire: The U.S. Corporate Attack on Students, Teachers, and Schools” (July-August 2011) and “Public School Teachers Fighting Back” (June 2013), we sounded… READ MORE
May 1, 2015
The article that appears below is reprinted from the February 1965 issue of Monthly Review. Despite her small body of work and short life, Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) is considered one… READ MORE