What matters now
February 1, 2024
A tender rain wanders down�on a day when fires burn�elsewhere, elsewhere—�for now. � Ashes float on smoky wind�over houses that no longer�exist, over crisp bodies�and their pets. � Fires rage,… READ MORE
Articles
The Senegal Delta and Global Capitalism
February 1, 2024
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development in Venice…. READ MORE
To Struggle!: A Review of Marcello Musto’s ‘The Last Years of Karl Marx’
February 1, 2024
Mauricio Betancourt is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. � Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, translated by… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2024
January 1, 2024
buy this issue The genocide being inflicted by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people has now (as we write this in late November 2023) reached a particularly lethal stage,… READ MORE
The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction
January 1, 2024
This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.…… READ MORE
Judge Irving Kaufman, the Liberal Establishment, and the Rosenberg Case
January 1, 2024
Michael Meeropol is professor emeritus of economics at Western New England University in Massachusetts. He is the author of Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution (2nd ed.,… READ MORE
Hegemonic Femininity in Popular Culture: Heteronormative Appropriation of Lesbian Sexualities in Contemporary India through Neeraj Ghaywan’s ‘Geeli Pucchi’
January 1, 2024
Aratrika Bose is a PhD scholar in Gender Studies from CHRIST University, Bangalore, and is currently pursuing her thesis on the intersections of homosexuality and compulsory heterosexuality in modern India…. READ MORE
Critical Race Theory
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
Palestine, Oh, Palestine!
January 1, 2024
Paul Buhle has been a contributor to Monthly Review since 1970. His latest graphic novel is The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance. � Linda Dittmar, Tracing Homelands:… READ MORE
Social Medicine and Collective Health
January 1, 2024
Oscar Feo Istúriz is a professor at the University of Carabobo and the Bolívar-Marx Institute of Advanced Studies, both in Venezuela. He was also coordinator of the health commission in… READ MORE