Locations—countries, regions or territories.
May 1, 2023
The success of the telecommunications industry in India has been heralded as a "miracle." But a miracle for whom? The answer, Rahul Varman writes, has clearly been the capitalist class, who, over three decades, have amassed tremendous wealth and power through the machinations of large firms, in collusion with the Indian government.
May 1, 2023
First published in 1952, I. F. Stone's Hidden History of the Korean War was a stunning indictment of the U.S. war machine and the mass media's unquestioning acceptance of the government's deception. In their new introduction, Tim Beal and Gregory Elich explore Hidden History's continuing relevance to current events, including the rapidly escalating New Cold War.
May 1, 2023
In this prescient article from 1995, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy show that, through their own profligacy, the ruling classes have lost their capacity for political rule. The way forward, Magdoff and Sweezy write, is an "organized, militant struggle," and with victory necessarily leading to the overthrow of capitalist rule.
April 1, 2023
"There is no longer any question that the United States is waging a New Cold War," MR editors write in this month's "Notes from the Editors." This war, waged not only against Russia, but increasingly against China, whose approach to global governance is seen as a threat to U.S. imperialism.
April 1, 2023
In this interview, originally published in the Czech journal Contradictions, John Bellamy Foster discusses the history of environmental thought among socialists from Marx to the present day, with a view to the need to mobilize in order to protect humanity's only home.
April 1, 2023
Monthly Review editors remember the life of MR editorial board member John J. Simon (1934–2022), a dedicated socialist, towering figure in radical publishing and broadcasting.
April 1, 2023
Andy Higginbottom analyzes the influence of Ruy Mauro Marini on dependency theory and the concept of superexploitation. Marini, he explains, carried Marx's legacy forward—but there is still work to be done in the twenty-first century.
April 1, 2023
What did Marx mean in his discussion of "so-called primitive accumulation" in Capital? Here, Ian Angus argues that the term is widely misunderstood—but its illumination reveals great insight to the conditions of exploitation and expropriation.
April 1, 2023
Toby Terrar reviews I Was a Red Priest, the memoir of Marxist clergy member and activist Father Jean Boulier, finding lessons for today's antiwar Christians.
