Notes from the Editors, June 2014
June 1, 2014
Samir Amin’s Review of the Month in this issue, “Popular Movements Toward Socialism,” offers a masterful analysis of struggles all over the world in the era of what he calls… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Stagnation
Stagnation and Financialization: The Nature of the Contradiction
May 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and a long-time commentator on political-economic topics. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2014
March 1, 2014
This issue of Monthly Review is mainly devoted to two commemorations: for Paul Alexander Baran, who died fifty years ago this month; and for Hugo Rafael Chávez Friás, who died… READ MORE
The BaranÐSweezy Letters Project
March 1, 2014
Nicholas Baran is the son of Paul A. Baran. He is an attorney and former computer technology journalist and writer. His article “Privatization of Telecommunications” appeared in the July–August 1996… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2014
February 1, 2014
A comparison of the present state of the natural sciences with that of the social (or human) sciences cannot but give rise to a disquieting sense of the relative poverty… READ MORE
Sharp Left Turn for the Media Reform Movement: Toward a Post-Capitalist Democracy
February 1, 2014
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the… READ MORE
Saving Our Unions: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win?
February 1, 2014
Steve Early was a national union representative and organizer for twenty-seven years. He is the author of three books about labor. This article is excerpted from his new book Save… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2014
January 1, 2014
On November 16, 2013, Paul Krugman published a piece on his New York Times blog entitled “Secular Stagnation, Coalmines, Bubbles, and Larry Summers,” consisting of an extended commentary on former… READ MORE
The Plight of the U.S. Working Class
January 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
It’s the System Stupid: Structural Crises and the Need for Alternatives to Capitalism
November 1, 2013
Hans G. Despain teaches political economy at Nichols College, where he is the Chair of the Department of Economics. On Thursday, December 13, 2012, The Guardian announced Queen Elizabeth finally… READ MORE