December 1, 2023
In this interview with Zhao Dingqi of World Socialism Studies, Gabriel Rockhill dives deep into the CIA’s campaign to propagate thinly veiled imperialist and capitalist ideology through the institutions of the Western left intelligentsia—and how this state of affairs continues among intellectuals to this day.
December 1, 2023
Over the past decades, the left in Poland has found its political ambitions frustrated by an inability to connect with the general electorate, pushing the movement collectively toward dissolution. In this timely article, Damian Winczewski explores the shifting constellations attempting to revive Polish left.
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
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.
March 1, 2023
March's "Notes from the Editors" revisits the Non-Aligned Movement and its growing role in the New Cold War. The rise of Russia, China, BRICS, and other nonaligned countries hearlds the emergence of a new, multipolar world, counteracting the global hegemony of the United States.
February 1, 2023
As C. Wright Mills wrote in 1958, "the immediate causes of World War III are the preparations for it." This month's "Notes from the Editors" situates Mills's words in a contemporary context, with a New Cold War in full swing and imperial powers pushing us ever closer to a Third World War.
October 1, 2021
In India, today, we are witness to the quiet rise of the figure of Mahar Sidnak, iconized and lionized as a warrior of the oppressed from the early nineteenth century. This is electrifying the anticaste struggle and energizing the militant youth, a source of inspiration as historical as it is mythical. Are material issues, or "real struggle," really so opposed to the question of the "mythical past"?
