Remembering John Kenneth Galbraith
July 1, 2006
When my father, Paul Sweezy, died at the end of February 2004, John Kenneth Galbraith, or Ken, as he preferred to be called, invited my mother to gather her children… READ MORE
Articles
Notes from the Editors, June 2006
June 1, 2006
In April 2000 Robert W. (Bob) McChesney and John Bellamy Foster joined Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy as coeditors of MR. In December 2002, while still coeditor of MR, Bob,… READ MORE
A Warning to Africa: The New U.S. Imperial Grand Strategy
June 1, 2006
John Bellamy Foster’s most recent book is Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006). This is an updated and revised version of a… READ MORE
Three Moments of the French Revolt
June 1, 2006
Rémy Herrera (herrera1 [at] univ-paris1.fr) is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and teaches at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. In quick succession in May… READ MORE
Conditions of the Working Classes in China
June 1, 2006
Robert Weil is the author of Red Cat, White Cat: China and the Contradictions of “Market Socialism” (Monthly Review Press, 1996), and other articles and papers on Chinese economic, political,… READ MORE
The Unanswered Questions
June 1, 2006
When Anne Braden, who died last March 6, aged 81, began covering criminal justice for her hometown paper, the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal, in 1947, it did not take her long… READ MORE
The New History of the Weather Underground
June 1, 2006
Ron Jacobs is an anti-imperialist activist and a writer. He is the author of The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Verso, 1997). � Dan Berger,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2006
May 1, 2006
When MRzine was launched on Bastille Day, July 14, 2005, Eduardo Galeano greeted it with the words: “Monthly Review in conquest of the air? Wasn’t it a private kingdom of… READ MORE
The Household Debt Bubble
May 1, 2006
This article returns to an issue addressed here six years ago—in The Editors, “Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt,” Monthly Review, May 2000. It represents an attempt to update… READ MORE
The End of Retirement
May 1, 2006
Teresa Ghilarducci teaches economics at Notre Dame University and is a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research this spring. She was a member of the Advisory Board… READ MORE