Monthly Review in Historical Perspective
October 1, 2022
Paul M. Sweezy was a founding editor of Monthly Review (along with Leo Huberman) and coedited the magazine from 1949 until 2004. This article was a talk given at Harry… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: History
A New Environmental History of Socialist States
September 1, 2022
Andy Bruno is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Northern Illinois University and the author of The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History and Tunguska:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2022
July 1, 2022
buy this issue Monthly Review, which has its origin in the early Cold War years (the first issue of the magazine appeared in May 1949), focused to a considerable extent… READ MORE
Ecology and the Future of History
July 1, 2022
This article is adapted from the conclusion to John Bellamy Foster’s Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 2022). The subject of historical knowledge is… READ MORE
Panopticon
June 1, 2022
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and… READ MORE
Mészáros and Chávez: The Philosopher and the Llanero
June 1, 2022
Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. It is… READ MORE
Mészáros and Chávez: “The Point from Which to Move the World Today”
June 1, 2022
This essay has been adapted from the section on “Mészáros and Chávez” in the introduction to István Mészáros’s Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State (Monthly Review Press, 2022). István Mészáros… READ MORE
The Jakarta Method, Then and Now: U.S. Counterinsurgency and the Third World
June 1, 2022
Sarah Raymundo is assistant professor at the Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines. She is the international liaison officer of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) and chairperson… READ MORE
‘Notes on Exterminism’ for the Twenty-First-Century Ecology and Peace Movements
May 1, 2022
In 1980, the great English historian and Marxist theorist E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class and leader of the European Nuclear Disarmament movement, wrote… READ MORE
Marxism, Science, and Science Studies: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26
May 1, 2022
Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the… READ MORE