I am wrestling with despair
November 1, 2017
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 me,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Inequality
Notes from the Editors, October 2017
October 1, 2017
Since the events in Charlottesville in August, seven months into the Trump administration, it has become common in left and even liberal circles to point to the presence of neofascism… READ MORE
Africa Rising’ in Retreat: New Signs of Resistance
September 1, 2017
Patrick Bond is a professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His most recent book, coedited with Ana Garcia, is BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (Haymarket,… READ MORE
The Struggle for Shelter: Class Conflict and Public Housing in Britain
September 1, 2017
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo in Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. In his 1872… READ MORE
Consider these but you won’t
June 1, 2017
Consider the child with curly brownhair sleeping with her dog in the backof an old SUV while her parents dozein scruffy front seats tilted back. Consider the child with brown… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2017
May 1, 2017
The Review of the Month in the April 2017 issue of MR, “Neofascism in the White House,” by John Bellamy Foster, pointed out that the Trump administration has been exceedingly… READ MORE
Singing for Women’s Lives in Chile
May 1, 2017
Maxine Lowy is a Santiago-based journalist and translator, and the author of Memoria latente (LOM Ediciones, 2016). Elizabeth Vilma Uribe and her husband, Alan Velasquez, were known to their neighbors… 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
Marx on Immigration: Workers, Wages, and Legal Status
February 1, 2017
David L. Wilson is coauthor, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, to be reissued in a new edition by Monthly Review Press later this year…. READ MORE
A People’s Theater on Skid Row
February 1, 2017
Walda Katz-Fishman is a professor of sociology at Howard University. She has worked for many years with the nonprofit organization Project South, the Institute for Elimination of Poverty and Genocide,… READ MORE