Article Subjects and Geography: Middle East
Imperialism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory
February 1, 2025
Over the last quarter century—and especially since the beginning of Israel’s latest genocidal incursion into Palestine in October 2023—the term “settler colonialism” has proliferated in academic and popular discourse. In February’s “Review of the Month,” John Bellamy Foster connects readers to thinkers from around the globe and across time to illustrate the phenomenon of settler colonialism as a dimension of imperialism, and thus capitalism, driven by a rapacious extractivism that threatens the whole of humanity.
December 2024 (Volume 76, Number 7)
December 1, 2024
As the atrocities visited by Israel upon the Palestinian people continue to multiply, this month’s “Notes from the Editors is a forceful condemnation of not only the Zionist entity, but the entire U.S.-led neoliberal world order. Israel’s relentless pursuit of genocide in Palestine “has destroyed any pretense of a commitment to universal human rights on the part of the West,” undeniably revealing “imperialism and settler colonialism in their most brutal forms” as the entire world watches.
November 2024 (Volume 76, Number 6)
November 1, 2024
Monthly Review editors elucidate Samir Amin’s concept of “delinking” in the context of the rise of global multipolarity. Delinking, they write, does not aim to isolate individual nations and populations economically, “but rather finding a way to sever connections with the main mechanisms of imperial dominance.”
July-August 2024 (Volume 76, Number 3)
July 1, 2024
While Israel’s horrific assaults on the people of Gaza continue, the voices against the U.S. support for the Zionist state grow ever-louder. This spring, the fight spilled onto college campuses. In this month’s “Notes,” MR editors take the long view, starting with the Free Speech Movement over half a century ago.
The Council on Foreign Relations, the Israel Lobby, and the War on Gaza
May 1, 2024
Over six months into to Israel’s atrocity-filled assault on Gaza, Laurence Shoup digs deep to reveal a rarely discussed—but enormously influential—force within the Israel Lobby: the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR, he writes, is more than just Wall Street’s think tank; it is an elite network of Zionist politicians and donors who comprise a significant part of the Israel lobby and the continuing U.S. commitment to funding Israel’s genocidal actions in Palestine.
Notes from the Editors, February 2024
February 1, 2024
buy this issue According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word exterminate comes from the Latin for “to drive beyond boundaries.” From the sixteenth century onward, it meant “to drive… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2024
January 1, 2024
buy this issue The genocide being inflicted by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people has now (as we write this in late November 2023) reached a particularly lethal stage,… READ MORE
Palestine, Oh, Palestine!
January 1, 2024
Paul Buhle has been a contributor to Monthly Review since 1970. His latest graphic novel is The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance. � Linda Dittmar, Tracing Homelands:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2023
December 1, 2023
buy this issue Fearful of losing its imperial hegemony over the world economy due to the rise of China as a major economic power, the United States is seeking to… READ MORE