Notes from the Editors, February 2020
February 1, 2020
Economists generally expect wages to rise significantly at the peak of the business cycle. The fact that this is not happening today is seen as something of a paradox. According… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Inequality
Sex and Socialism
February 1, 2020
Ann Snitow died on August 10, 2019. In her memory, we are reprinting here an excerpt from the introduction to Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Case for Labor-Led Development
February 1, 2020
`Intan Suwandi is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Her book, Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism (Monthly Review Press, 2019), won the 2018 Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial… READ MORE
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Coercion
December 1, 2019
Mark Jay is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author, with Philip Conklin, of the forthcoming book A… READ MORE
Endgame Marxism (and Urbanism)
November 1, 2019
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books, including Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review Press, 2002), Magical Marxism (Pluto Press, 2011), and, most recently, The Amateur (Verso… READ MORE
Race and Mystery in Cape Cod
November 1, 2019
� Nicholas Powers is a professor, poet, and journalist. He is the author of The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall… READ MORE
Green Card
October 1, 2019
It turns out you might be�part of a mass migration (or�an invasion, depending on�the perspective of the speaker)�without even knowing that�your own imperative to go�grows out of the same need�that… READ MORE
Mapping Gender in African-American Political Strategies
September 1, 2019
� Leith Mullings is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and served as president of the American Anthropological Association from… READ MORE
Straggling onward
September 1, 2019
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth. The meanness of it gets… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2019
July 1, 2019
Cover image: “Trump” by Stefan Gua. Gua is a Mauritian artist and political activist who believes that art should be a crucial element in building movements for change. He works… READ MORE