The Point Is to Change It
June 1, 2021
Michael E. Tigar is a lawyer, law teacher, activist, and author. His recent Monthly Review Press books are Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change (2021) and… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
Geography
Notes from the Editors, May 2021
May 1, 2021
In December 1884, such important figures in England’s budding socialist movement as William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, E. Belfort Bax, and John L. Mahon, among others, broke with the… READ MORE
The Council on Foreign Relations, the Biden Team, and Key Policy Outcomes: Climate and China
May 1, 2021
Laurence H. Shoup is a California author and activist. He is the author of five books, including Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of… READ MORE
Five Characteristics of Neoimperialism: Building on Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
May 1, 2021
Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy… READ MORE
The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow
May 1, 2021
� Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of philosophy at the École normale supérieure and founder of the faculty of philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII. He… READ MORE
Nostalgia for what never was
May 1, 2021
My mother hated Stalin�but loved Trotsky. She had�no party affiliation, no friends�with whom to talk politics. � There was only me to listen.�Maybe it was because Trotsky�was Jewish. I don’t… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2021
April 1, 2021
Paul Blackledge’s “Engels’s Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature” in this issue was written in commemoration of the bicentennial of Frederick Engels’s birth (see also the articles by John… READ MORE
Repairing the Soil Carbon Rift: Enhancing Agriculture and Environment
April 1, 2021
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Creating an Ecological Society (coauthored… READ MORE
Building Communities of Solidarity
April 1, 2021
Fernando E. Gapasin is a former professor of industrial relations and Chicanx studies. He was the principal researcher for the AFL-CIO Union Cities program. He has fifty-seven years of activism… READ MORE
History comes in bad cycles
April 1, 2021
I watched the insurrectionists assault�the capital with Trump flags, anti-Semitic�signs, gas masks, guns and enough�angry hatred to kill those they see � as enemies. War in the streets the man�in… READ MORE