Letter to Leonard Peltier
January 1, 2000
Subcomandante Marcos is a member of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) In 1975, Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murder of two government agents after a violent confrontation… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Movements
The Road Not Taken
November 1, 1999
Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999), $18, 315 pp.; Mike Parker &… READ MORE
The Public Sector Strikes in South Africa: A Trial of Strength
October 1, 1999
Franco Barchiesi is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and a researcher at the Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, johannesburg, South Africa. � The strikes that… READ MORE
Powerful Compassion: The Strike at Syracuse
September 1, 1999
Ali Shehad Zaidi lives in Valley Stream. NY. This is his first piece for Monthly Review. � It is worth the trip to Syracuse University just to see Ben Shahn’s… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 1999
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 1999
February 1, 1999
Back in December, while the January issue was going to press, the U.S. and Britain were bombing Iraq, and Congress was impeaching Bill Clinton. Our publication schedule spares us the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 1999
January 1, 1999
Ideology comes, as we all know, in many guises, some more subtle and insidious than others. Children in the United States learn very early to think that capitalism means good… READ MORE
Braverman and the Class Struggle
January 1, 1999
Michael Yates is a labor educator and professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs and Why Unions Matter… READ MORE
On Twenty-Five Years With Braverman’s ‘Labor and Monopoly Capital’ (or, How Did Control and Coordination of Labor Get Into the Software So Quickly?)
January 1, 1999
Joan Greenbaum is a professor of computer information systems at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York,and visiting professor at the University of Oslo,Norway. She is the author of… READ MORE