Notes from the Editors, December 2006
December 1, 2006
In a survey of the Iraqi population, the results of which were released last June, 76 percent of those surveyed gave as their first choice “to control Iraqi oil” when… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
Geography
Monopoly-Finance Capital
December 1, 2006
The year now ending marks the fortieth anniversary of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s classic work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
December 1, 2006
Gerald Sussman teaches urban studies and communications at Portland State University and has published widely on the international political economy of information technology, mass media, and development. His most recent… READ MORE
Socialism and the Knowledge Economy: Cuban Biotechnology
December 1, 2006
Dr. Agustín Lage Dávila is director of the Center for Molecular Immunology in Havana, Cuba.�This essay was adapted from Dr. Agustín Lage Dávila, “La economía del conocimiento y el socialismo,”… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2006
November 1, 2006
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations in September drew worldwide media attention not simply because he referred to the current occupant of… READ MORE
Cuban Doctors in Pakistan: Why Cuba Still Inspires
November 1, 2006
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (amajid [at] comsats.net.pk) is a political activist associated with the People’s Rights Movement (PRM), a confederation of working-class struggles. He also teaches colonial history and political economy… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2006
October 1, 2006
Fidel Castro’s illness in August has nurtured the hopes of Miami-based Cuban émigrés and the U.S. ruling class that a “transition in Cuba” will soon be possible. It is often… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2006
September 1, 2006
After eighteen years on West 27th St., the MR offices will move this month to a new address: 146 West 29th St., Suite 6W, New York, NY 10001. Fortunately, our… READ MORE
Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa
September 1, 2006
Michael Watts (mwatts [at] calmail.berkeley.edu) directs the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker than both. Perry Anderson, Scurrying… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2006
July 12, 2006
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s famous remark, cited by Karl Marx, among others, was surely a part of the sensibility that motivated Harry Magdoff’s life and work. Harry’s writing and scholarship… READ MORE