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
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
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
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
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
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
December 1, 2008
John Newsinger is professor of modern history at Bath Spa University and most recently author of The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire (Bookmarks, 2006). His… READ MORE
November 1, 2008
In the Notes from the Editors for the September issue of Monthly Review (written in late July) we asked why, with the United States bailing out the financial sector of… READ MORE
October 1, 2008
The United States in the opening decade of the twenty-first century is dominated by a new imperial project that is affecting all aspects of its society. The most obvious manifestation… READ MORE
October 1, 2008
Michael A. Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE