‘The Guardian’: William Costa, on the anarchist journalist Rafael Barrett
December 27, 2025
Anarchist chronicler of ‘Paraguayan sorrow’ – once known only in radical Latin American circles – is finally being recognized in his adopted country....Category: Monthly Review Press /
C.G. Beck’s “The Labor of Architecture”
December 26, 2025
Many congratulations to author C.G. Beck for getting the word out to new audiences about the efforts of architects to be recognized as workers...
In ‘New York Magazine:’ Mohammad Mhawish, contributer to “A Land With A People”
December 25, 2025
Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime BY MOHAMMED R. MHAWISH THE INTELLIGENCER In the days before we reached the Netzarim checkpoint in Gaza in early April 2024, my... READ MORE
William Costa’s translation of “Paraguayan Sorrow”
December 23, 2025
Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there. However, there has been a resurgence of interest in his life and work. We hope that with the publication of this first English translation of his major work, which includes his powerful set of essays The Truth of the Yerba Mate Forests, the life and works of Rafael Barrett will inspire readers in the English-speaking world. His words speak to today’s workers and peasants as they did to their Paraguayan counterparts more than 100 years ago....
In the public eye: Helena Sheehan
December 22, 2025
Socialist History: Issue 67, by Dianne Kirby “The cover of part two of Helena Sheehan’s autobiography, Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left, is inspired by Geliy Korzhev’s... READ MORE
George McCarthy’s “Shadows of the Enlightenment”
December 1, 2025
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2025 (Volume 63, no. 4): “Examines the hidden metaphysics and politics of the modern natural and social sciences, focusing on their implications for diagnosing and... READ MORE
WATCH: The Korean Policy Institute on Izzy Stone’s classic, MRP’s first-ever book
February 25, 2024
At first no one would touch Stone’s findings – they were too hot. But Stone got in touch with Monthly Review -- and this was the first book we published. Courageously written at the height of the McCarthy era, officials never refuted nor denied the book’s claims, but Stone’s book still got a real audience due to the durable reputation of the journalist himself. Christine Hong, MR author Marty Hart-Landsberg, and Gregory Elich (each of the Korea Policy Institute) and Time Beal discuss...
Venezuelan migrants “destroying New York”? (David Wilson featured on NYU Press blog)
February 24, 2024
So why not just end the U.S. embargo on Venezuela? If Venezuelans are coming here just to escape economic problems at home, reducing the embargo should bring about a major decline in Venezuelan asylum seekers.
Send MR books to a library in Texas: On the ‘Counterpunch’ “Best of” List
February 23, 2024
Here are the books published last year that taught me the most about the world we’re now living in, how it came to be this way and how we might, against all odds, go about changing it. So buy copies to help feed some starving writers, read them and then send them to a library in Texas....
Steve Batterson’s “The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis”
February 22, 2024
'The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis' provides the historical insight that I associate with the best accounts of this kind: motives are complex, power a critical variable, timing an unpredictable factor, and rational argument not necessarily a winning strategy...