Culling the Herd
June 1, 2020
A rightwing official announced�two or three percent deaths�is acceptable—to him. What�of the Black mother of three�drowning of phlegm in her lungs? � Tell the fireman who lacked�a mask how expendable… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
Geography
Notes from the Editors, May 2020
May 1, 2020
More than a century ago, the British zoologist E. Ray Lankester, Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s protégé and Karl Marx’s close friend, warned in The Kingdom of Man that the… READ MORE
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital: New York to China and Back
May 1, 2020
This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry the same date at the end of the article the day it… READ MORE
Science and Politics
May 1, 2020
Katherine L. Bryant is the secretary of Science for the People and a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford. During her PhD,… READ MORE
Engels vs. Marx?: Two Hundred Years of Frederick Engels
May 1, 2020
Paul Blackledge is a professor of Marxist theory at Shanxi University. He is the author of Marxism and Ethics (SUNY Press, 2012), Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (Manchester… READ MORE
It’s Still Slavery by Another Name
May 1, 2020
Michael D. Yates is the editorial director of Monthly Review Press, a labor educator, and the author of numerous books, including Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review… READ MORE
Postcolonial Reconstruction in Ghana, 1952Ð66
May 1, 2020
Background Izaak Hecht is an independent researcher and activist in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In 1952, the West African nation of Ghana, recently having freed itself from British imperialism, set out on… READ MORE
And then, I think about war
May 1, 2020
Trees no longer holding their arms up to heaven�block the road, intersecting the wrong planes.�The rain does not wash, but slices wind-driven knives�into everything permeable. The dark, a heavy cloak,… READ MORE
The Rift of Éire
April 1, 2020
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of… READ MORE