Notes from the Editors, February 2005
February 1, 2005
The battle over the future of Social Security, the site of continual skirmishes since the Reagan era, is now being waged in earnest (for a history of this struggle see… READ MORE
Articles
India, a Great Power?
February 1, 2005
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder (Zed Books, 2004) and The Liberal Virus:… READ MORE
The Achievement of Malcolm X
February 1, 2005
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. It is tempting to speculate how the… READ MORE
Interview with Malcolm X
February 1, 2005
The following interview with Malcolm X, formerly the minister of the New York City and Washington, D.C. mosques of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, headed by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad,… READ MORE
The Murder of Malcolm X
February 1, 2005
Jigs Gardner is a college English teacher who has written many essays on current events and socialism.�This essay first appeared in the April 1965 issue of Monthly Review following Malcolm’s… READ MORE
A Cup of Tea, Summer of ’72
February 1, 2005
his short memoir was originally written in Farsi (Persian) and will shortly appear in a collection to be published in Tehran in honor of Paul Sweezy. Borzoo Nabet translated Sweezy’s… READ MORE
Inspiration from Behind the Walls
February 1, 2005
Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. For many years he taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of Naming the System:… READ MORE
A Man for All Seasons
February 1, 2005
Percy Brazil lives in Connecticut and is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. Carl Marzani, The Education of a Reluctant Radical, Book 5, Reconstruction (New York: Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2005
January 1, 2005
An essential aspect of any modern democratic society is a communications system that enables rather than disables public debate. Yet the mass media in the advanced capitalist societies are highly… READ MORE
The Failure of Empire
January 1, 2005
The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the American empire…. READ MORE