The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
June 1, 2009
Hannah Holleman is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Saying No to Soy: The Campesino Struggle for Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay
June 1, 2009
April Howard (april.m.howard [at] gmail.com) is a journalist and teacher of Latin American history at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and of high school social studies in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2009
March 1, 2009
As we write these notes in late January 2009 the economic depression is worsening with each passing day, creating previously unthinkable conditions. Even as production sinks and unemployment soars in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2009
February 1, 2009
In 1987, in the introduction to their Stagnation and Financial Explosion, Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy wrote: We both reached adulthood during the 1930s, and it was… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2009
January 1, 2009
This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in the history of capitalism. However, while… READ MORE
Why Cuba Still Matters
January 1, 2009
Diana Raby is senior fellow at the Research Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool (UK) and is also professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto. She… READ MORE
The Long March of the Cuban Revolution
January 1, 2009
Ricardo Alarcón De Quesada is president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s parliament. He was ambassador to the United Nations (1966–78 and 1990–92) and Cuba’s foreign minister (1992–93)…. READ MORE
The Cuban Revolutionary Doctor: The Ultimate Weapon of Solidarity
January 1, 2009
Steve Brouwer is the author of Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang (Common Courage Press, 2003); Sharing the Pie: A Citizen’s Guide to Wealth and Power in… READ MORE
The Urban Agriculture of Havana
January 1, 2009
Sinan Koont teaches economics and is coordinator of Latin American Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and recently spent a sabbatical semester in Cuba studying urban agriculture. Urban Agriculture… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2008
December 1, 2008
The historic testimony by former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan before the House Committee of Government Oversight and Reform on October 23, 2008, represented such a startling turnaround for… READ MORE