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Notes from the Editors, May 2002
May 1, 2002
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Monthly Review Press. The idea of starting a book publishing arm of MR had its origin in an accidental meeting in Central Park… READ MORE
Upton Sinclair and the Contradictions of Capitalist Journalism
May 1, 2002
ROBERT W. McCHESNEY is a coeditor of Monthly Review. BEN SCOTT is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This essay is adapted from the foreword to… READ MORE
U.S. Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization
May 1, 2002
James Petras has worked with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for the last eleven years in addition to his work with the unemployed workers’ movement in Argentina. He is coauthor,… READ MORE
Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Power Politics of Bourgeois Democracy
May 1, 2002
PATRICK BOND teaches political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is a research associate at the Alternative Information and Development Center www.aidc.org.za. He is… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2002
April 1, 2002
As this special issue on the economy goes to the printer, the business press is full of the news that a mild recovery from the recession that began in March… READ MORE
The New Face of Capitalism: Slow Growth, Excess Capital, and a Mountain of Debt
April 1, 2002
For a long time now, the U.S. economy and the economies of the advanced capitalist world as a whole have been experiencing a slowdown in economic growth relative to the… READ MORE
The Argentine Crisis
April 1, 2002
Joseph Halevi teaches in the Political Economy Discipline at the University of Sydney and is associated with the Institut de Recherches Economiques sur la Production et le Développement (IREPD) at… READ MORE
Argentina: An Alternative Proposal to Overcome the Crisis
April 1, 2002
� “There is no alternative” has always been wishful thinking at best, at worst a deliberate lie, on the part of the ruling powers. From out of the ruins to… READ MORE
Porto Alegre 2002: A Tale of Two Forums
April 1, 2002
James Petras has worked with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for the last eleven years in addition to his work with the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. He is coauthor,… READ MORE