No Child Ahead
November 1, 2006
(Translated from the Spanish by Margot Pepper*) � We’re tangled in a month of state testing�like insects trapped in the president’s spider web.�As we take it, we feel like bad… READ MORE
Articles
Cuban Doctors in Pakistan: Why Cuba Still Inspires
November 1, 2006
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (amajid [at] comsats.net.pk) is a political activist associated with the People’s Rights Movement (PRM), a confederation of working-class struggles. He also teaches colonial history and political economy… READ MORE
Who Is Threatening Our Dinner Table? The Power of Transnational Agribusiness
November 1, 2006
Byeong-Seon Yoon teaches economics at Konkuk University in South Korea. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. His research areas are agricultural crisis… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2006
October 1, 2006
Fidel Castro’s illness in August has nurtured the hopes of Miami-based Cuban émigrés and the U.S. ruling class that a “transition in Cuba” will soon be possible. It is often… READ MORE
A Son’s Reflections
October 1, 2006
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington and a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. He is coauthor with Harry Magdoff… READ MORE
The Optimism of the Heart
October 1, 2006
The following intellectual biography of Harry Magdoff is a slightly revised and expanded version of a piece that was posted on MRzine a few days after Harry’s death on January… READ MORE
The Necessity of Planning: In Honor of Harry Magdoff
October 1, 2006
István Mészárosis 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, 1995)…. READ MORE
‘Let the Dialectic Continue!’
October 1, 2006
William K. Tabb (william.tabb [at] gmail.com) taught economics at Queens College for many years, and economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New… READ MORE
Lessons for Leftists Old and New
October 1, 2006
Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic, and child advocate, is director of the Children and Family Justice Center, a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago,… READ MORE
The Meaning of Work: A Marxist Perspective
October 1, 2006
This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk given at the Third North American Christian–Marxist Dialogue held in May 1982 at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. At the… READ MORE