The Great Struggle to Escape Capitalism
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
Article Subjects and Geography: Europe
As the World Turned Upside Down: Left Intellectuals in Yugoslavia, 1988Ð90
July 1, 2017
Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University and the author of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left (Monthly Review Press, 2017). � For decades,… READ MORE
The Western Left and the Russian Revolution
July 1, 2017
Diana Johnstone is the author of Fool’s Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions (Monthly Review Press, 2002) and Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton (CounterPunch, 2015). V. I…. READ MORE
Bertrand Russell and the Socialism That Wasn’t
July 1, 2017
Jean Bricmont is a professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain, and the author of Humanitarian Imperialism (Monthly Review Press, 2006). Normand Baillargeon is a professor of education… READ MORE
Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies: The New York Times, 1917Ð2017
July 1, 2017
Edward S. Herman has written widely on economics, foreign policy, and the media. It has been amusing to watch the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets express their… READ MORE
An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point? Global Warming, the Two Climate Denials, and the Environmental Proletariat
May 1, 2017
Paul Burkett is a professor of economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, and coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket, 2017). In the summer of… READ MORE
Trump’s America: Rethinking 1984 and Brave New World
May 1, 2017
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University, Ontario. He is the author of many books, including America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review… READ MORE
Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
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
‘Mourning and Militancy’
March 1, 2017
Michael D. Yates is the associate editor of MR. Richard Seymour is a writer, scholar, journalist, broadcaster, and political activist. Born in Northern Ireland and now living in London, he… READ MORE
The Battle for the National Health Service: England, Wales, and the Socialist Vision
March 1, 2017
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo in North Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. Society becomes… READ MORE