The New Geopolitics of Empire
January 1, 2006
This article is a much expanded version of a plenary address delivered to the Fifth Colloquium of Latin American Political Economists in Mexico City on October 27. Parts of this… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Imperialism
Kathy Kelly’s Chispa
December 1, 2005
Vijay Prashad teaches international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His next book is Darker Nations: The Rise and Fall of the Third World (The New Press, 2006).�I am… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2005
November 1, 2005
Speaking in New York to the United Nations in September Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delivered a fiery speech sharply critical of U.S. imperialism and what he called a “frightening neoliberal… READ MORE
Empire and Multitude
October 1, 2005
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World (Monthly Review, 2004)… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2005
September 1, 2005
More than a year after the supposed “transfer of sovereignty” the war of aggression that the United States is waging in Iraq shows no sign of abating. Washington’s plan is… READ MORE
Naked Imperialism
September 1, 2005
This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster’s Naked Imperialism: America’s Pursuit of Global Dominance, to be published by Monthly Review Press in February 2006. A different version of this… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2005
May 1, 2005
With the failure of its three previous attempts since 2002 to topple the Bolivarian Revolution of President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Washington has recently announced a new “containment” strategy for… READ MORE
Guantánamo and the New Legal Order
May 1, 2005
Jean-Claude Paye is a Belgian sociologist specializing in transformations of the juridical forms of the state. He published many articles on this topic, as well as two books: Vers un… READ MORE
The Failure of Empire
January 1, 2005
The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the American empire…. READ MORE
Martinique
January 1, 2005
This essay is reprinted from The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson (Monthly Review Press, 2004). This article, written shortly after a massive volcanic eruption… READ MORE