Monthly Review Press

New! “Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations”

February 20, 2024

While vaunting itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, has become a superpower by infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries all over the world. Washington Bullets is about U.S. imperialism—the bullets sent by various Washington, DC administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders—to destroy hope....

Green Social Thought reviews “Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution” by Don Fitz

February 20, 2024

Don Fitz’s new book Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution was going to press at Monthly Review in early spring, as the pandemic was ramping up, so he had just barely enough time to slip in a postscript teasingly titled, “How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19.” The postscript puts an exclamation mark on the medical history of Cuba that Fitz takes us through in the 240 compelling pages that come before. Based on that history, one would have expected Cuba to take early, decisive actions to stem the pandemic, and Fitz says that’s exactly what happened....

“Trump’s ‘Patriot Education’ whitewashes racist, imperial US history”: Gerald Horne on PUSHBACK with Aaron Maté

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, radical historial and prolific author—most recently of The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century—talks to... READ MORE

Stephanie Urdang speaks at SACP’s panel “Gender Equality and Women’s Emancipation: Lessons learned…”

February 20, 2024

Stephanie J. Urdang, South African anti-apartheid activist, gender specialist, journalist, and author--most recently of Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa--spoke recently on a panel sponsored by the Jack Simons Party School of the South African Communist Party, on "Gender Equality and Women's Emancipation: Lessons learned from the struggle against Portuguese Colonialism." Watch, below, or on Facebook

Trump’s ‘Patriotic Education’ a Call for White Supremacy and Fascism: Gerald Horne talks to Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news

February 20, 2024

1619 vs. 1776? Trump’s recent speech attacking the New York Times 1619 Project and vaunting his own "1776 Project" is an attempt to rally his base, writes journalist Paul Jay, to create a McCarthyite campaign against the left, and devise conditions for hanging on, even if Trump loses the election. Hear historian and author Gerald Horne's on take on all this, as he joins Paul Jay on theanalysis.news podcast...

CubaSi reviews Don Fitz’s “Cuban Health Care: the Ongoing Revolution”

February 20, 2024

After the triumph of the Revolution, Cuba set phenomenal goals, the biggest of all being the remaking of its medical system as a free service for all: health as a human right. Don Fitz comprehensively charts the 61 years that transformed Cuba’s health service into one of the best in the world, where people are placed at the very heart of the system...

Gerald Horne on The Katie Halper Show

February 20, 2024

Historian Gerald Horne appeared recently on The Katie Halper Show and talked to Katie Halper and her cohost Jack Allison about Dr. Horne's latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. They discuss racism, class-consciousness, Trumpism, 2020, the Supreme Court and the creation of White Supremacy...

New! “Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19”

February 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some bravely descended into the caves where bat species hosted coronaviruses, including the strains that evolved into the COVID-19 virus. Yet, despite their own warnings, many of the researchers appear unable to understand the true nature of the disease—as if they are dead to what they’ve seen...

UK’s Socialist Review considers Fosters and Clark’s “The Robbery of Nature”

February 20, 2024

The Robbery of Nature draws on and develops the theories of Marx and Engels to understand why capitalism has such a destructive influence on the natural world. Central to Fosters and Clark’s argument is that, under capitalism, human beings and the natural environment are the original sources of wealth, but it is only the labour of workers that generates value....

What We Can Learn from Cuban Health Care: The Progressive reviews Don Fitz’s new book

February 20, 2024

Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution affirms a view of the Cuban Revolution offered to me by C.L.R. James in 1970: While there is much to criticize, it broke the stranglehold of the Monroe Doctrine, even if just a little, and gave the region a chance to shape its own destiny—including its remarkable health care system....