About the new MR website.

Monthly Review Press

Listen: Why the right attacks Critical Race Theory, without even knowing what it is (“The Analysis” brings Gerald Horne back for an interview)

Listen: Why the right attacks Critical Race Theory, without even knowing what it is (“The Analysis” brings Gerald Horne back for an interview)

February 20, 2024

It’s a set of loose propositions that fundamentally come down to this. If you look at the overrepresentation of black Americans in prisons or the overrepresentation in terms of being suspended from schools K through 12, you can come to one or two conclusions. You can come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with black people, or you can come to the conclusion that there’s something wrong with society....

Beyond enthusiasm for an imagined anti-capitalism (Los Angeles Review of Books reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World?”)

Beyond enthusiasm for an imagined anti-capitalism (Los Angeles Review of Books reviews “Can the Working Class Change the World?”)

February 20, 2024

It is with this attentiveness to the historic shortcomings and duplicity of left organizations that Yates rejects so-called democratic socialism, which even in its heyday failed to fundamentally challenge capitalism. Setting our sights on the mere (and, as history shows, inevitably temporary) reform of a fundamentally exploitative system instead reflects a colossal failure of imagination akin to the prisoner who spends all his energy advocating for a larger window in his cell...

FORTHCOMING! “Extraordinary Threat: Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela” (Three reviews in one from the Orinoco Tribune)

FORTHCOMING! “Extraordinary Threat: Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela” (Three reviews in one from the Orinoco Tribune)

February 20, 2024

The book "Extraordinary Threat" will be here any minute! "Although the publication is not entirely a praise of the Bolivarian Revolution—the authors offer detailed critiques where criticism is deserved—overall the book stresses the importance for people of good conscience to defend the example of Venezuela. Through grassroots democracy and popular participation, Venezuela is trying to chart an independent course and overcome centuries of imperialist domination, a heroic resistance against the 'extraordinary threat' of the most powerful empire of modern times...."

The American “regime change” manual (Countercurrents reviews “Washington Bullets”)

The American “regime change” manual (Countercurrents reviews “Washington Bullets”)

February 20, 2024

A common line of argument from the contemporary American left is that “socialism has never been tried.” It’s understandable that Western socialists would make this argument to members of the US proletariat, who have been deeply affected by years of red scare propaganda. This argument however, ignores the millions who have struggled and died in an effort to move beyond the contradictions of capitalism...

Watch: Vijay Prashad on crisis in the Caribbean (Shelter and Solidarity )

Watch: Vijay Prashad on crisis in the Caribbean (Shelter and Solidarity )

February 20, 2024

Shelter and Solidarity brings together Vijay Prashad, Ezili Dantò and Moise St Louis to try to come to terms with the Haitian and Cuban peoples' complex responses to forced reverse-reparations, sanctions, invasions, and constant threats of “regime change”.... while keeping a focus on what we have to do, as activists in the heart of the Empire....

A “punchy manifesto” (Eisenstein reviewed by Socialism and Democracy)

A “punchy manifesto” (Eisenstein reviewed by Socialism and Democracy)

February 20, 2024

Read as a short, punchy manifesto it serves as a timely call- to-action for a generalist audience that seeks to organise against what bell hooks (2004) calls “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. I agree with Eisenstein that thinking with black radical conceptu- alisations of intersectionality is central to such a project....

Newsletter sign-up

Keep up to date with all the latest socialist news from MR