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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
The Financialization of Capitalism
April 1, 2007
This article was prepared for a panel organized by the Union for Radical Political Economics at the Left Forum in New York, March 11, 2007. Changes in capitalism over the… READ MORE
The Only Viable Economy
April 1, 2007
István Mészáros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
New Wings for Socialism
April 1, 2007
Michael A. Lebowitz is the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Imperative of an International Guaranteed Income
April 1, 2007
Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. is an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Howard Law… READ MORE
What It Means to Teach
April 1, 2007
Amy Demarest is a former classroom teacher currently writing a doctoral dissertation on how teachers use the local community to engage students more meaningfully in a democratic education. She also… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2007
March 1, 2007
Our friends Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors of the Socialist Register, have recently published Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register, 2007 (Monthly Review Press, 2006), which includes contributions… READ MORE
Israel in the U.S. Empire
March 1, 2007
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. This essay is adapted from “After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies,” eds. Priyamvada Gopal & Neil Lazarus, special issue New Formations, 59 (Fall 2006)…. READ MORE
Imperialism: In Tribute to Harry Magdoff
March 1, 2007
William K. Tabb taught economics at Queens College for many years, and economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books… READ MORE