December 1, 2024
As the atrocities visited by Israel upon the Palestinian people continue to multiply, this month’s “Notes from the Editors is a forceful condemnation of not only the Zionist entity, but the entire U.S.-led neoliberal world order. Israel’s relentless pursuit of genocide in Palestine “has destroyed any pretense of a commitment to universal human rights on the part of the West,” undeniably revealing “imperialism and settler colonialism in their most brutal forms” as the entire world watches.
December 1, 2024
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
November 1, 2024
Say Burgin reviews Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey, an account of the fight for Black Power as told through the Simmons family, and particularly, Michael and Zoharah Simmons, from their first meeting during SNCC’s Atlanta Project to their later painful struggles as a family. The story that shines through, Burgin writes, is a story of Black Power that is deeply personal, often messy, and, above all, a refreshing challenge to popular narratives that serve to demonize the history of Black Power and the radicals who devoted their lives to the struggle.
June 1, 2024
What is “Red Africa”? Through an extended treatment of Kevin Ochieng Okoth’s Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023), Vijay Prashad and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog illuminate the potential for a reinvigorated socialist politics in Africa. In turning away from Afropessimism and Decolonial Studies, the authors catalog the on-the-ground realities at play in pan-African and Marxist social movements today.
June 1, 2024
The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson reflects on the relevance of his work more than fifty years after its initial publication. Even despite the promotion of wealthy Black individuals as model capitalists and COVID recovery schemes purported to help Black entrepreneurs, “Little had changed except the desperation of countless numbers of near penniless, distressed Black small business owners.”
March 1, 2024
Christian Noakes is a worker and freelance writer. He received a Masters in Sociology from Georgia State University. Born out of oppressive conditions of the Black experience under white supremacy,… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
For my fifth-grade teacher, who handed me a book � But what could I have known–dumb�and white and 10-years-old in�that springtime of Bull Connor�and Bombingham? � That year, Mr. Shimazu… READ MORE
November 1, 2023
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
October 1, 2023
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, activist, and frequent contributor to Monthly Review. She is the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015), Loaded: A… READ MORE
January 1, 2023
Paweł Wargan is an organizer and researcher based in Berlin and the coordinator of the secretariat of the Progressive International. They say to me: Eat and drink. Be glad you… READ MORE
