Notes from the Editors, December 2011
December 1, 2011
buy this issue The last month (late September to late October 2011) was to all appearances a historical turning point. The Arab Spring gave way to the New York/World Fall… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
Geography
The Political Economy of the Egyptian Uprising
November 1, 2011
Stephen Maher (smaher85 [at] gmail.com) is a freelance writer from Washington, DC. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the International Socialist Review, Truthout, and elsewhere. His website is http://rationalmanifesto.blogspot.com. Not long after Egyptian… READ MORE
The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development
November 1, 2011
Michael Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan), Build… READ MORE
South AfricaÑThe Left Must Launch a Counteroffensive
November 1, 2011
Helena Sheehan (helena.sheehan [at] dcu.ie) is an author, activist, and professor emerita at Dublin City University. Her works include The Continuing Story of Irish Television Drama: Tracking the Tiger (Four… READ MORE
An Arab Springtime?
October 1, 2011
An earlier version of this article appeared online at monthlyreview.org. The articles by Samir Amin in this issue were translated from the French by Shane Mage. The year 2011 began… READ MORE
Quid Pro Quo? The Question of India’s Subordination to the ‘American Narrative’
October 1, 2011
Vijay Prashad (vijay.prashad [at] trincoll.edu) teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His most recent book, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World won the Muzaffar Ahmad… READ MORE
An Oil-Rich Cuba?
September 1, 2011
Robert Sandels (sandels [at] unm.edu) writes on Cuba for the online publication Cuba-L Direct (Albuquerque). His articles have also appeared in CounterPunch, Rebellion, Granma International, and other publications. He is… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2011
June 1, 2011
Manning Marable, who died last April 1, aged sixty, was the quintessential radical academic/activist. A friend of Monthly Review for many years, he wrote numerous articles for the magazine and… READ MORE
The Rise of the Working Class and the Future of the Chinese Revolution
June 1, 2011
Minqi Li (minqi.li [at] economics.utah.edu) has taught economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, since 2006. He was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. His… READ MORE
Three Poems by Marilyn Buck
June 1, 2011
1. Consumption � TV captures imagi-�nation, holds us willing hostage�to manufactured need no longer basic�basted together by corporate Frankensteins � mr. mrs. ms.tified consumptives�we cough up blood�carnelian balances land�on cuspidoric… READ MORE