Notes from the Editors, January 2002
January 1, 2002
The U.S. news media coverage of the current war has again drawn attention to the severe limitations of our journalism, and our media system, for a viable democratic and humane… READ MORE
Articles
Monopoly Capital and the New Globalization
January 1, 2002
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness… READ MORE
The Unemployed Workers Movement in Argentina
January 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 co-author,… READ MORE
Taking Exams, Taking on Capitalism
January 1, 2002
Margaret Mikesell Tabb teaches English at John Jay College, City University of New York. Kathryn Cressida Tabb is a freshman at the University of Chicago. William K. Tabb teaches economics… READ MORE
Wealth Gap Woes
January 1, 2002
Jerry Kloby is the Coordinator of the Institute for Community Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, and the author of Inequality, Power and Development: The Task of Political… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2001
December 1, 2001
For a long time radicals have characterized the electoral systems in capitalist societies as “bourgeois democracies.” At times, this term has been used in a strictly pejorative sense, to dismiss… READ MORE
Imperialism and ‘Empire’
December 1, 2001
This article is based on a talk on István Mészáros’ Socialism or Barbarism delivered to the Brecht Forum in New York on October 14, 2001. Only a little more than… READ MORE
The Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality
December 1, 2001
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
Sixties Lessons and Lore
December 1, 2001
Bernadine Dohrn activist, academic and child advocate, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, Bluhm Legal… READ MORE
A Collective Past Within Us
December 1, 2001
Paul Buhle teaches history at Brown University. He is the author of A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left (University of California Press, 2001); and co-author,… READ MORE