Notes from the Editors, January 2020
January 1, 2020
In December 1973, MR editor Paul M. Sweezy, who had made a number of trips to Chile and was a friend of Salvador Allende (a guest at Allende’s inauguration), wrote… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Democracy
Germany’s Hidden Social Crisis
April 1, 2019
Victor Grossman is an American journalist and author who has lived in Berlin for many years. His most recent book is A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee (Monthly Review… READ MORE
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
January 1, 2019
Patrick Bond is a professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His most recent book, coedited with Ana Garcia, is BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (Haymarket… READ MORE
The Working-Class Struggle for Welfare in Britain
February 1, 2018
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo in Wales and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. Although there exists… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2017
May 1, 2017
The Review of the Month in the April 2017 issue of MR, “Neofascism in the White House,” by John Bellamy Foster, pointed out that the Trump administration has been exceedingly… READ MORE
Dirge for my country
February 1, 2017
My country, you are hurtling us into a darkmorass. In that old war, I understoodthe Viet Cong better than I understoodthe Pentagon. Alienated, at daily warin the streets and movement… READ MORE
The Brazilian Crisis: Corruption, Neoliberalism, and the Primary Sector
February 1, 2017
Anthony Pahnke is a visiting assistant professor of political science at St. Olaf College. His research focuses on social movements, agrarian reform, and development policy in Brazil, where he lived… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2016
September 1, 2016
On July 14, 2016, Cornel West, a Monthly Review contributor and Monthly Review Press author (his 1991 book The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought remains in print) issued a historic statement… READ MORE
A Question of Place
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
‘Dangerous Circumstances’: The Council on Foreign Relations Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards China
September 1, 2015
Laurence H. Shoup (http://laurenceshoup.com) is an activist and the author of five books, including Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics 1976-2014… READ MORE