Notes from the Editors, April 2007
April 1, 2007
The U.S. economy in early March 2007 appears to be rapidly decelerating. Orders for durable goods in manufacturing dropped 8 percent in January and the manufacturing sector as a whole… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
Notes from the Editors, February 2007
February 12, 2007
Monthly Review Press is publishing an exceptionally strong collection of new books in 2007. However, like most small presses the modest budgets we can devote to the promotion of these… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2006
July 12, 2006
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s famous remark, cited by Karl Marx, among others, was surely a part of the sensibility that motivated Harry Magdoff’s life and work. Harry’s writing and scholarship… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2006
June 1, 2006
In April 2000 Robert W. (Bob) McChesney and John Bellamy Foster joined Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy as coeditors of MR. In December 2002, while still coeditor of MR, Bob,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2006
May 1, 2006
When MRzine was launched on Bastille Day, July 14, 2005, Eduardo Galeano greeted it with the words: “Monthly Review in conquest of the air? Wasn’t it a private kingdom of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2006
January 1, 2006
The United States is currently engaged in what the media—with no trace of irony—is calling “the national debate on torture.” With the White House adamantly rejecting Senator John McCain’s amendment… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2005
October 1, 2005
The much-anticipated split in the AFL-CIO, the labor federation in the United States, took place in Chicago, at the federation’s annual convention. Three unions—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2005
June 1, 2005
Andre Gunder Frank, one of the leading radical social scientists of the late twentieth century and a long-time friend and contributor to Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press, died on… READ MORE
Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile
May 1, 2005
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2005
April 1, 2005
Annette Rubinstein’s ninety-fifth birthday will be celebrated on Saturday April 9 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the new home of the Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School, at Westbeth, 451… READ MORE