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
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Labor and the Imperialism of Finance
October 1, 1999
William K. Tabb is professor of Economics at Queens College and of PoIitical Science at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. � Organized labor has always… READ MORE
Prison Sentences
October 1, 1999
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a prisoner on death row in Waynesburg, PA. Before his incarceration, he was a journalist and activist in Philadelphia. For more info, or to get involved in… READ MORE
The Politics of Capitalism
September 1, 1999
Ellen Meiksins Wood‘s most recent book is The Origin of Capitalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999). Note: The following is based on a talk given in South Africa in… READ MORE
Remarks on Paul Sweezy on the Occasion of his Receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award
September 1, 1999
John Bellamy Foster teaches sociology at the University of Oregon and is a member of the board of the Monthly Review Foundation. This paper was presented at the Veblen-Commons Award… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 1999
July 1, 1999
In his article on the U.S. economy in this issue, Doug Henwood quotes from a piece by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times Magazine on March 28, and points… READ MORE
Sub-Saharan Africa in Global Capitalism
July 1, 1999
John S. Saul is a member of the editorial working group of Southern Africa Report and Colin Leys is co-editor of the Socialist Register; both live in Toronto. The authors… READ MORE
Capitalism in Asia at the End of the Millennium
July 1, 1999
Prabhat Patnaik teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Two propositions dominated the Marxist perspective in most Asian countries during the period immediately following the Second World War. First, capitalism… READ MORE
Booming, Borrowing, and Consuming: The U.S. Economy in 1999
July 1, 1999
Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer, is the author of WallStreet:How It Works And For Whom (Verso,1997),and A New Economy?, forthcoming from Verso in the spring of 2000. As… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 1999
June 1, 1999
We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary with a dinner on May 7. It was a really marvellous occasion, and we were delighted to see so many of you there. The space… READ MORE