Notes from the Editors, January 2008
January 1, 2008
The victory of the No vote in the Venezuelan constitutional reform referendum in December is being treated by Washington as a major defeat for Chávez’s efforts to promote a socialism… READ MORE
Articles
The Injuries of Class
January 1, 2008
Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was for many years professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is most recently the editor… READ MORE
Against the Market Economy: Advice to Venezuelan Friends
January 1, 2008
Robin Hahnel is professor of economics at American University in Washington DC and currently visiting professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. This article is adapted from a… READ MORE
Living the 11th Thesis
January 1, 2008
Richard Levins is the head of the human ecology program at the Harvard School of Public Health and most recently coauthor, with Richard Lewontin, of Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical… READ MORE
Labor Market ‘Reform’ in Australia: The New Industrial Relations Law and the Elections
January 1, 2008
Peter Harkness teaches economics at the Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. For the first time in decades, the role of the state in industrial relations became a… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2007
December 1, 2007
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thorstein Veblen, the greatest critic of U.S. capitalism in the early twentieth century and one of the foremost social theorists… READ MORE
Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism
December 1, 2007
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include The Liberal Virus (Monthly Review Press, 2004), A Life Looking Forward (Zed Books, 2007),… READ MORE
Abu Ghraib and Insaniyat
December 1, 2007
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy (Routledge, 2006) and Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (Hurst,… READ MORE
Self-Sourcing: How Corporations Get Us to Work Without Pay!
December 1, 2007
Martha E. Gimenez teaches sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. � The expansion of the capitalist world economy, which accelerated after the fall of the socialist bloc, has… READ MORE
On the History of Imperialism Theory
December 1, 2007
Research Unit for Political Economy (RUPE) is based in Mumbai, India. The unit publishes the journal Aspects of India’s Economy and a range of research publications in English and Hindi…. READ MORE