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: History
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
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
These Brothers Chose Well
April 1, 2021
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review Press, 2018), among many other books…. READ MORE
Was Folk Music a Commie Plot?
April 1, 2021
Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. Recent projects include the republication of Songs of Freedom by Irish revolutionary James Connolly, the recording and publication of… READ MORE
A Commodius Vicus of Recirculation: Encountering Marx and Joyce
March 1, 2021
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, New Left… READ MORE
What We Recovered in the Revolution: Álvaro Cunhal’s Five Days, Five Nights
March 1, 2021
Camila Valle is an editor, translator, and writer. She is assistant editor of Monthly Review. Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal), Five Days, Five Nights, trans. Eric A. Gordon (New York: International… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2021
February 1, 2021
This month’s Review of the Month on “Colonialism Before the First World War” is from chapter 9 of political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik’s pathbreaking new Monthly Review Press… READ MORE