Monthly Review Press

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

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

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...

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)

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....

On Biden’s staged riots in Cuba (Prensa Latina interviews Salim Lamrani)

On Biden’s staged riots in Cuba (Prensa Latina interviews Salim Lamrani)

Lamrani abundó que en este contexto de doble castigo bloqueo-pandemia resulta lógico el malestar de las personas, escenario que Estados Unidos busca aprovechar para conseguir su objetivo trazado desde el triunfo de la Revolución en 1959: 'romper el orden establecido y conseguir un cambio de régimen'....

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

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

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)

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....