Notes from the Editors, November 2015
November 1, 2015
To understand why the Middle East is now in shambles, with the United States currently involved simultaneously in wars against both the Assad government in Syria and the Islamic State… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Imperialism
Whither Japan? Seven Decades After Defeat
November 1, 2015
Herbert P. Bix is Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY. His book, Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan, received a Pulitzer award for general nonfiction… READ MORE
Wars Past and Wars to Come
November 1, 2015
John Newsinger is Professor of Modern History at Bath Spa University. His books include The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire, Fighting Back: The American Working… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2015
October 1, 2015
Fifty years ago this month, beginning in early October 1965 and extending for months afterwards, the United States helped engineer a violent end to the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)…. READ MORE
Puerto Rico: The Crisis Is About Colonialism, Not Debt
October 1, 2015
Linda Backiel is a criminal defense attorney practicing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tourists are fascinated by the heavy blue cobblestones that pave the streets of Old San Juan. Why… READ MORE
The Part of “Illegal” They Don’t Understand
October 1, 2015
David L. Wilson and co-author Jane Guskin are working on a revised edition of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (Monthly Review Press, July 2007). Wilson co-edited Weekly News… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2015
September 1, 2015
In this number of Monthly Review we are publishing Larry Shoup’s “‘Dangerous Circumstances’: The Council on Foreign Relations Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards China”— an article published concurrently with… READ MORE
An Anti-Imperialist Feminist’s Tale
September 1, 2015
Rosalyn Baxandall, who has taught at the State University of New York, Old Westbury, and the City University of New York’s Labor School, is the author of Words on Fire:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2015
July 1, 2015
May’s Review of the Month, “Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them” by MR Associate Editor Michael D. Yates, has elicited many responses. One writer said that Yates had… READ MORE
The New Imperialism of Globalized Monopoly-Finance Capital: An Introduction
July 1, 2015
It is now a universal belief on the left that the world has entered a new imperialist phase.1 That imperialism should evolve and take on novel forms is of course… READ MORE