Geography
June 1, 2005
Jonah Gindin is a Canadian journalist living and working in Venezuela. He writes regularly for Venezuelanalysis.com. Last month, the National Union of Venezuelan Workers (UNT) turned two. Since its inception… READ MORE
May 1, 2005
With the failure of its three previous attempts since 2002 to topple the Bolivarian Revolution of President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Washington has recently announced a new “containment” strategy for… READ MORE
May 1, 2005
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the… READ MORE
May 1, 2005
Marta Harnecker is director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She… READ MORE
April 1, 2005
Annette Rubinstein’s ninety-fifth birthday will be celebrated on Saturday April 9 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the new home of the Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School, at Westbeth, 451… READ MORE
April 1, 2005
Makoto Itoh teaches economics at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, and is professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo. For a more detailed analysis of the Japanese economy by the author, see… READ MORE
March 1, 2005
In the face of continuing right-wing attacks on Social Security since the Reagan era in the 1980s, MR has responded repeatedly by pointing to the phony nature of the Social… READ MORE
February 1, 2005
The battle over the future of Social Security, the site of continual skirmishes since the Reagan era, is now being waged in earnest (for a history of this struggle see… READ MORE
February 1, 2005
his short memoir was originally written in Farsi (Persian) and will shortly appear in a collection to be published in Tehran in honor of Paul Sweezy. Borzoo Nabet translated Sweezy’s… READ MORE
