Monthly Review Press

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

February 20, 2024

David G. Legge is a teacher and international health policy researcher, based at La Trobe School of Public Health in Melbourne, Australia, who is also active in the global People’s Health Movement. Recently, he wrote a review of four books for the journal Critical Public Health. Three of these books, Health Care Under the Knife; A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism; and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, were published by Monthly Review Press.

June 5: Howard Waitzkin comes to Bluestockings on NYC’s Lower East Side

February 20, 2024

If you’re in New York City June 5, please come to Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center and share your post-Left Forum letdown with Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health.

Why Ours Is a Key Moment in Time: Socialism & Democracy on Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

February 20, 2024

Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
144 pp, $23 pbk, ISBN 9781583676011
By Samir Amin
Reviewed by Mat Callahan in Socialism and Democracy, vol. 32, no. 1, pp 174-77

“A Terrific Book”: Socialism & Democracy reviews Union Power by James Young

February 20, 2024

This is a terrific book. It deserves to be read carefully by both scholars and activists. In seven well-written chapters, James Young explores the emergence, struggles, victories and setbacks of a radical, democratic union, one that confronted powerful adversaries in the business, labor, and faith-based communities throughout the mid and late twentieth century.

An Important Message from John Bellamy Foster

February 20, 2024

In the 1990s, high tech firms and their mainstream media boosters proclaimed that the Internet and digital technology would unleash a new era that would destroy monopolies, liberate democratic impulses, and usher in what Bill Gates called “frictionless capitalism.” From the first, Monthly Review’s assessment was different. We foresaw instead the ways that the communications revolution would generate monopoly power on a scale never seen before.

“The Delusion of Deporting the Country’s Troubles Away by Banishing ‘Criminal Aliens’”: David L. Wilson via Truthout

February 20, 2024

David L. Wilson, with Jane Guskin, is the author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (2nd Edition). In his latest article for Truthout, Wilson asks, “Is there really any reason for the US government to deport non-citizens with criminal records?”

H-Net reviews James Young’s Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania

February 20, 2024

The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America—the unwieldy name is usually shortened to United Electrical Workers, or UE—occupies a significant niche in the history of the American labor movement....

Warehouse Clearance Sale!

February 20, 2024

Unfortunately the warehouse clearance sale has ended.

The Progressive Populist reviews The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

Colonies and the political economy are two sides of the same coin. In The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, historian Gerald Horne reveals the actors and factors behind the origin of a racial capitalism that haunts us now. ¶ It is no easy task, but Horne is up to it….

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks about the New Cold War via Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear

February 20, 2024

Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. The first Cold War was a tragedy. The new Cold War is playing out as a dangerous farce. That’s the thesis of Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano in The Russians are Coming, Again. Brian Becker and John Kiriakou speak with Kuzmarov, author and assistant professor of American history at the University of Tulsa.