Monthly Review Press

Laurence Shoup debunks the CFR on Redeye Radio, 100.5 FM

February 20, 2024

News stories and academic studies generally focus on the decisions made by presidents, prime ministers, and other world leaders. But where do those options decided upon come from in the first place? Why are some options never even considered? Behind the scenes, think tanks play a large part in what policies are considered by central governments. In the U.S., the most influential think tank of them all is the Council on Foreign Relations. From the 1920s right up until today, the CFR has been shaping policies, advising presidents, and helping ensure the U.S. remains the dominant superpower in the world.

The Socialist Imperative Wins OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

February 20, 2024

These outstanding works have been selected for excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important—often the first—treatment of their subject.

Grace Lee Boggs, 1915 – 2015

February 20, 2024

Wall Street’s Think Tank reviewed in Counterpunch (again!)

February 20, 2024

Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to shape the outlines of much of recent history.

October 30 NYC Book Party for Confronting Black Jacobins

February 20, 2024

Peter Custers, 1949 – 2015

February 20, 2024

Your Time is Done Now reviewed in Repeating Islands

February 20, 2024

Polly Pattullo’s very important piece entitled Your Time is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814), is an edited collection of original primary source documents with contextual commentary detailing the account of what has been known as Dominica’s Second Maroon War in 1813 and 1814. Pattullo, a British writer and creator of her own publishing company entitled Papillote Press, uses the actual court documents of the Maroon (runaway slave) trials as well as correspondences between the British colonial government officials to disclose to public the eventful conflict between the Maroons and the colonial government of Dominica in the second decade of the nineteenth century.

Rosalyn Baxandall Remembered by Ruth Milkman in Jacobin magazine

February 20, 2024

Hear Gerald Horne speak about his new book, Confronting Black Jacobins, at Tamiment Library, New York University, October 30

February 20, 2024