Monthly Review Press

The Persecution of Paul Robeson (Horne, on ‘The Chris Hedges Report’)

The Persecution of Paul Robeson (Horne, on ‘The Chris Hedges Report’)

When you defy the imperial, capitalist American state, when you denounce the crimes done to its own people, especially the poor, immigrants, and African Americans, as well as the crimes it commits abroad, when you have a global audience in the tens of millions that admires and respects you for your courage and integrity, when you cannot be intimidated or bought off, then you are targeted for destruction....

Beyond the “two-state” v. “One State” debate (‘A Land With A People’ reviewed in MLT)

Beyond the “two-state” v. “One State” debate (‘A Land With A People’ reviewed in MLT)

How do we get there? The text notes the role of U.S. imperialism and the imperialism of other capitalist powers in promoting Israel’s domination of Palestinians. The leadership role of Palestinians, first, and secondarily, of Jews, in the anti-Zionist struggle is evident in this volume. However, it will take a broad anti-imperialist movement supported by the working class of the capitalist countries if Zionism is to be defeated...

Antifascism on the “home front” (Horne and the Criterion Collection)

Antifascism on the “home front” (Horne and the Criterion Collection)

During the Red Scare, a telling phrase came to describe some who had been clamoring for more demonstrative anti-Hitler manifestations before the U.S. entered the war in late 1941: “premature antifascists.” Outside a narrow wartime period, antifascist convictions were now seen from a postwar vantage as suspect, evidence of Communist loyalty. Now forgotten is that there was an offshoot of this tendency: one whose adherents we might call “premature antiracists”....

Mészáros reading groups

Mészáros reading groups

March is the month to dig in to Mészáros. Join "Essential Discussions" with Irv Kurki, or The Marxist Education Project's "Capital Studies Group" respectively focusing on 'Beyond Leviathan' and 'The Necessity of Social Control.'

“In Seattle, for a time, they did things differently…” (HISR reviews Cal Winslow)

“In Seattle, for a time, they did things differently…” (HISR reviews Cal Winslow)

Winslow studied at Warwick University under E. P. Thompson, the undisputed pioneer in this approach, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In his Introduction he cites another founder of the new labor history, Herbert Gutman, to the effect that ‘Studying a single event cannot answer the basic questions, not even the general strike ... We need the background, of the discontent of working people in the Pacific Northwest as well as of the Seattle social and economic structure.’ This Winslow provides in considerable detail...