Article Subjects and Geography: Media

Sweezy v. New Hampshire: The Radicalism of Principle

Sweezy v. New Hampshire: The Radicalism of Principle

by John J. Simon

November 1, 2025

In this reprise from April 2000, John J. Simon explored the consequences of the landmark Supreme Court case Sweezy v. New Hampshire, which saw MR founding editor facing off against the state of New Hampshire after refusing to respond to questions concerning his political activities. While the case is often seen as marking the waning of McCarthyism, MR editors had a different view: the decline was due to the successful ascension of capitalist interests in U.S. society. "The extreme right had served its purpose, Simon noted, "and could now be reined in."
The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear

The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear

by Abdaljawad Omarand Pasquale Liguori

September 1, 2025

In this interview, published here for the first time in English, Abdaljawad Omar (aka Abboud Hamayel) and Pasquale Liguori discuss Western media attempts to force upon Palestinians narratives of either victimhood or savagery. These portrayals, however, only obscure the threat Palestinian resistance poses not just to Zionism, but to the colonial project globally.
Gogol’s Nose: On the Scent of Our Times

Gogol’s Nose: On the Scent of Our Times

by Andy Merrifield

September 1, 2025

Andy Merrifield explores Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Nose," a satirical tale featuring a puffed-up government official who finds himself suddenly nose-less. As the official pursues his formerly attached schnozz through the streets of St. Petersburg, Gogol bestows upon readers a twisted parable revealing the pettiness and indolence pervading the corridors of power.
The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today

The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today

by Prabhat Patnaikand Utsa Patnaik

July 1, 2025

Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik consider the historical views of the relationship between the proletariat and peasantry during the revolutionary transition to socialism and struggle against imperialism. While other thinkers have suggested that alliances between the two groups must be shed in order to complete the revolution, the Patnaiks propose a framework of voluntary cooperatization benefiting all.
Neoliberalism and Neofascism

Neoliberalism and Neofascism

by Robert W. McChesney

May 1, 2025

As we mourn the loss of prolific MR author and media advocate Robert W. McChesney, we are grateful to be able to publish an excerpt from his introduction to John Bellamy Foster's Trump in the White House (Monthly Review Press, 2017). In this insightful analysis, McChesney explains how neoliberal restructuring prepared paved the way for Trump and the neofascist MAGA movement to reach the dizzying heights of power that they have reached today.
Emerging Oceanic Struggles for No-Nukes in Japan

Emerging Oceanic Struggles for No-Nukes in Japan

by Lau Kin Chiand Sit Tsui

February 1, 2025

In this deeply stirring account, Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi share their field research, conducted over years of travel and relationship-building, into the Japanese antinuclear movement. As the people and environment of Fukushima continue to be impacted by the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, the No-Nukes movement has grown in response, encompassing aspects of society ranging from artists and monks to fisherfolk and intellectuals.
January 2025 (Volume 76, Number 8)

January 2025 (Volume 76, Number 8)

by The Editors

January 1, 2025

Monthly Review editors take on the results of the 2024 election, exploring how the lackluster reformist policies of the Biden administration and unfocused nature of the Harris campaign served to drive away much of the working class, as reflected in part by the expansion of the Party of Nonvoters. As neoliberal positions occlude the possibility of a Popular Front against Trump's fascism, any substantive victory must come from a revolutionary restructuring of society.

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