Red State Irony
April 1, 2012
Neill Herring has been a lobbyist at the Georgia General Assembly since 1980, working in support of public interest issues, primarily conservation and environmental protection. � The last four or… READ MORE
Articles
Fredric Jameson on the Reserve Army
April 1, 2012
Matt McGregor (mcgma709 [at] gmail.com) lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he works as a teacher. Fredric Jameson, Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One (New York: Verso Books, 2011),… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2012
March 1, 2012
As we write this, in late January 2012, international representatives of the ruling class and its power elite—wealthy investors, corporate executives, politicians, state bureaucrats, economists, pundits, and sundry celebrities—are gathered… READ MORE
The Great Inequality
March 1, 2012
Michael D. Yates (mikedjyates [at] msn.com) is associate editor of Monthly Review and editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Why Unions Matter and Cheap Motels… READ MORE
Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change
March 1, 2012
István Mészáros is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. His book, Marx’s Theory of Alienation, was awarded the Isaac… READ MORE
Recessions and Human Misery: Dating the Cycle
March 1, 2012
Howard Sherman (sherman [at] polisci.ucla.edu) is professor emeritus of Economics at U.C. Riverside, visiting scholar in Political Science at U.C.L.A., and a founding member of the Union for Radical Political… READ MORE
Welcome to the Desert of Transition!: Post-Socialism, the European Union, and a New Left in the Balkans
March 1, 2012
Srećko Horvat (srecko.horvat [at] gmail.com), a philosopher, is founder of the Subversive Forum in Zagreb, Croatia. Igor Štiks (i.stiks [at] ed.ac.uk) is an essayist and novelist who lives in Edinburgh…. READ MORE
Reviving the Strike in the Shadow of PATCO
March 1, 2012
Steve Early (lsupport [at] aol.com) is a longtime union activist and the author of Embedded With Organized Labor (Monthly Review Press, 2009) and The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor (Haymarket… READ MORE
A Most Reliable Ally: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Unions
March 1, 2012
Elly Leary (ellyleary [at] earthlink.net), a retired autoworker and clerical worker, was vice president and bargaining chair for her United Auto Workers local union. She has also worked with the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2012
February 1, 2012
This issue of Monthly Review focuses particularly on China. Aside from the Review of the Month by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, which addresses the Chinese economy and… READ MORE