Cuba’s Medical Mission
February 1, 2016
Don Fitz is a member of the National Committee of the Green Party USA and newsletter editor for the Green Party of St. Louis, where he also produces the program… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: History
No Vacation from Politics
January 1, 2016
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964) was an influential Marxian political economist and professor of economics at Stanford from 1951 until his death. An early and prolific contributor to MR, he was… READ MORE
The United States and the 1965Ð1966 Mass Murders in Indonesia
December 1, 2015
This article was adapted from Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960–1968 by Bradley Simpson. © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University…. READ MORE
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
A Torture Machine: The Violent Story of Slavery and the Beginning of American Capitalism
November 1, 2015
T.W. Walker is a Southern activist, mostly as a rank-and-file public-sector clerical worker helping organize a non-majority union. � Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and… READ MORE
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa
July 1, 2015
Horace Campbell is professor of African American studies and political science at Syracuse University. He is the author of Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya (Monthly Review Press,… 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
South Africa: Exploding with Rage, Imploding with Self-DoubtÑbut Exuding Socialist Potential
June 1, 2015
Patrick Bond is director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society and is an advisory board member of Numsa’s Research and Policy Institute. The opinions expressed in this… READ MORE
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions at Ten Years: Reflections on a Movement on the Rise
June 1, 2015
Max Ajl is a doctoral student in development sociology at Cornell University and is active in the Palestine solidarity movement. He is also an editor at Jacobin and Jadaliyya. Rich… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2015
May 1, 2015
As we write these notes in March 2015, the Pentagon’s official Vietnam War Commemoration, conducted in cooperation with the U.S. media, is highlighting the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of… READ MORE