April 1, 2013
Ronnie Kasrils’s recently published The Unlikely Secret Agent (Monthly Review Press) won the Johannesburg Sunday Times Alan Paton Literary Award. An activist in the African National Congress and the South… READ MORE
April 1, 2013
Paul Buhle is the author of C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary and Tim Hector, Caribbean Radical. Clairmont Chung, editor, Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution (New York: Monthly… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
The history of capitalism is replete with cases of successful captains of industry who, suddenly concerned with their place in history, decide to write a book celebrating their achievements, while… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and The Law of Worldwide Value… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
Albert Ruben is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantánamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012). He… READ MORE
January 1, 2013
Jan Toporowski is professor of economics and finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is writing an intellectual biography of Michał Kalecki and worked… READ MORE
January 1, 2013
Joe R. Feagin, McFadden Professor at Texas A & M University, has written sixty scholarly books and over 200 articles on racism, sexism, and urban studies. His recent books include… READ MORE
December 1, 2012
As we write these notes at the beginning of November climate change is once again in the headlines in the United States and around the world. This is because of… READ MORE
December 1, 2012
� Eric Hobsbawm, who died last October 1, aged ninety-five, has been much celebrated as one of the twentieth century’s greatest English-language historians despite his steadfast advocacy of socialism and… READ MORE
December 1, 2012
Issa G. Shivji is the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Chair at the University of Dar Es Salaam, and hosts the annual Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Intellectual Festival. This essay is adapted from… READ MORE