Monthly Review Press

Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti reviewed in Race & Class

February 20, 2024

This comprehensive study on paramilitarism throughout Haiti's history focuses particularly on the most recent wave of paramilitaries in the twenty-first century, concerning which it provides a fascinatingly detailed case study. Such groups of armed individuals, serving as irregular forces, in league with brutal militaries or as security militias have had no legitimate or legal status in Haiti – but have had, from the outset, enormous influence in shaping its history. As Sprague shows, throughout Latin America, both local elites and foreign governments have used such groups against the people to advance their own interests. But in Haiti, dictatorial regimes such as the Duvalierist dynasty took this to a new extreme. It is a legacy the country has suffered from ever since.

Ricardo Alarcón on Gerald Horne and Race to Revolution

February 20, 2024

...an important intellectual event is taking place this year in the United States. Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African American studies at the University of Houston, has just added two new texts to his long and brilliant bibliography on these subjects. Last April, New York University published The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. And now, in late June, Monthly Review Press began distributing Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow.

July 27, Race to Revolution Book Talk in Baltimore, MD

February 20, 2024

Join MR Press author Gerald Horne for a discussion of his new book, Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow on Sunday, July 27, 7:30PM, at Red Emma's, 30 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201

Marta Harnecker, author of A World to Build, wins the 2013 Liberator’s Prize for Critical Thought

February 20, 2024

We're pleased to share the news that MR Press author and Monthly Review contributor Marta Harnecker has won the 2013 Liberator's Prize for Critical Thought. MR Press will publish the English edition of her prize-winning book, A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism, in November 2014. This announcement was published by the Venezuelan news agency Agencia Venezolana de Noticias and was translated by Fred Fuentes.

Henry Giroux interviewed in CounterPunch

February 20, 2024

Henry Giroux is the author of America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth, published by Monthly Review Press. He is interviewed by C. J. Polychroniou, who writes for Eleftherotypia in Greece. "What we have seen in the United States and a number of other countries since the 1970s is the emergence of a savage form of free market fundamentalism, often called neoliberalism, in which there is not only a deep distrust of public values, public goods and public institutions but the embrace of a market ideology that accelerates the power of the financial elite and big business while gutting those formative cultures and institutions necessary for a democracy to survive."

Steve Early interviewed in Working In These Times

February 20, 2024

Steve Early is the author of Save our Unions, published by Monthly Review Press. He is interviewed by Mike Elk for Working In These Times, who writes: "At time when the labor beat was disappearing from mainstream publications, Early's writing formed a valuable body of work that inspired many young writers—myself included—to stick with the profession through its highs and lows."