The Stagnation of Employment
April 1, 2004
Except in times of war, capitalist economies almost never reach full employment. The mere absence of jobs for those desiring paid employment, however, is not necessarily a problem for the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
Geography
Disposable Workers: Today’s Reserve Army of Labor
April 1, 2004
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is author of numerous scientific articles; coauthor, with Harold van Es, of Building… READ MORE
New Economy R.I.P.
April 1, 2004
Sasha Lilley is a producer of the program “Against the Grain” on Pacifica Radio’s KPFA and research coordinator at CorpWatch. Doug Henwood, After the New Economy (New York: The New… READ MORE
From Racial to Class Apartheid: South Africa’s Frustrating Decade of Freedom
March 1, 2004
Patrick Bond teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, is visiting professor at York University Department of Political Science, Toronto, and is an associate of the Center for… READ MORE
NAFTA’s Knife: Class Warfare Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
March 1, 2004
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based organizing and education center formed to raise awareness in the United States of issues facing the nations and peoples… READ MORE
U.S. Imperial Strategy in the Middle East
February 1, 2004
Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon before moving to France where he teaches politics and international relations at the University of Paris-VIII. He is the author of The Clash of Barbarisms:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2004
January 1, 2004
Historical materialists are not prophets; they do not predict the future course of history. They are concerned rather with the present as history. This fundamental principle of Marxist thought is… READ MORE
Cuba: The Next Forty-Five Years?
January 1, 2004
István Mészaros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE