November 1, 2023
buy this issue Last spring, China introduced its Global Civilization Initiative, meant to accompany its earlier Global Development Initiative and its Global Security Initiative (on the latter two initiatives, see… READ MORE
November 1, 2023
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and… READ MORE
October 1, 2023
Wei Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. This work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation… READ MORE
October 1, 2023
Mateo Crossa is a research professor at Instituto Mora, Mexico City. Utilizing a Marxist perspective and the concept of unequal exchange, I describe here the enormous drain of wealth that… READ MORE
October 1, 2023
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, activist, and frequent contributor to Monthly Review. She is the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015), Loaded: A… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the… READ MORE
July 1, 2023
Ying Chen is an assistant professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York. The discovery of oil in Namibia in 2022 quickly led to the… READ MORE
April 1, 2023
Government officials, police,�media rant against legalizing�pot. Opiates were handed out�by doctors like Halloween candy.�Now we live with those deaths. � Police say pot’ll cause accidents.�Yet alcohol is legal most places.�Hasn’t… READ MORE
March 1, 2023
We have been a nation of consumers.�Stores beckoned in every mall, stuffed�high with clothes produced by barely�paid labor in distant countries; � stuffed with gadgets that lost value�the minute you… READ MORE
February 1, 2023
Six of them, five weird men�sexist to the angry core�and one fundamentalist woman�are geared up to punish unto � death women who like sex,�women who’ve been raped,�women who can’t feed… READ MORE