Cotton: The Fabric of Death
November 1, 2015
J. Lichtenstein is an Ivy League graduate and former cotton merchant who is now a food service worker in Tennessee struggling to build unity and someday socialism in the lower… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
Method in Ecological Marxism: Science and the Struggle for Change
October 1, 2015
Hannah Holleman is assistant professor of sociology at Amherst College in Massachusetts and a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Along with her other work, she is also coauthor, with John… READ MORE
Interview with Bill Gallegos
October 1, 2015
Elly Leary is a former autoworker, office worker, and labor educator who has held many union offices, including bargaining chair. She is a longtime contributor to Monthly Review. Anne Lewis… READ MORE
When Did the Anthropocene BeginÉand Why Does It Matter?
September 1, 2015
Ian Angus is editor of the online journal Climate & Capitalism. He is co-author of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket, 2011), and editor of The… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2015
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
Late Soviet Ecology and the Planetary Crisis
June 1, 2015
Soviet ecology presents us with an extraordinary set of historical ironies. On the one hand, the USSR in the 1930s and ’40s violently purged many of its leading ecological thinkers… READ MORE
Trying to love Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
April 1, 2015
First I will honor your name. Just as�those colonists first used, then abused�then tried to exterminate those whose�land they coveted, so you squat leering�at our homes, our bodies, our air… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2015
March 1, 2015
From its earliest years, Monthly Review has been distinguished among socialist publications by the degree to which it has incorporated environmental views into its fundamental perspective. Paul Sweezy’s 1950 article,… READ MORE
A Rational Agriculture Is Incompatible with Capitalism
March 1, 2015
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and a long-time commentator on political-economic topics. He is coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of… READ MORE
GMOs: Capitalism’s Distortion of Biological Processes
March 1, 2015
Michael Friedman earned his PhD in biology at the Genomics Laboratory at the American Museum of Natural History and currently works as an adjunct at CUNY (City University of New… READ MORE