The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis
April 1, 2008
With the benefit of hindsight, few now doubt that the housing bubble that induced most of the recent growth of the U.S. economy was bound to burst or that a… READ MORE
Articles
An Age of Transition: The United States, China, Peak Oil, and the Demise of Neoliberalism
April 1, 2008
Minqi Li teaches economics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Until recently, the global capitalist economy has enjoyed a period of comparative tranquility and grown at a… READ MORE
Finance, Imperialism, and the Hegemony of the Dollar
April 1, 2008
Ramaa Vasudevan teaches economics at Colorado State University. She is a member of the Union for Radical Political Economics and the Dollars and Sense Collective. The July–August 2007 crisis in… READ MORE
Market Economy or Oligopoly-Finance Capitalism?
April 1, 2008
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World (2004) and The… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2008
March 1, 2008
This month marks the fifth year of the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq, which commenced on March 19, 2003. Despite setbacks for the U.S. empire, including unexpected losses in… READ MORE
The Iron Heel at 100: Jack LondonÑThe Artist as “Antenna of the Race”
March 1, 2008
Jonah Raskin teaches First Amendment law and journalism at Sonoma State University in Northern California. He is the author of The Mythology of Imperialism, and Out of the Whale, as… READ MORE
Forget Guantánamo
March 1, 2008
Stephen J. Gallagher is a philosopher and writer who lives in North Carolina. A frequent contributor to Free Inquiry, his work has also appeared in The Journal of Contemporary Thought,… READ MORE
The Guerrilla in Colombia An Interview with Rodrigo Granda, Member of the FARC-EP International Commission
March 1, 2008
Jean Batou directs the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and teaches international history there. He has published numerous books and articles on… READ MORE
The Communal System and the Principle of Self-Critique
March 1, 2008
Itsván Mészáros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the ‘American Century’ to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001), Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press, 1995),… READ MORE
Peace Now! Or Anytime in This Lifetime
March 1, 2008
Peace is always somewhere else— in Utopia, Shangri-La, the New Jerusalem. Peace is the walled garden we never saw where erosion has made a desert. � Peace is always sometime… READ MORE