Policing the Poor in Detroit
January 1, 2017
Mark Jay is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a co-founder of The Periphery, a Detroit-based magazine. On the afternoon of November 15,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Movements
The Story of Why I Am Here: Or, A Woman Connects Oppressions
January 1, 2017
Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, and activist. Her most recent book is The World Will Follow Joy (New Press, 2013). This article was originally a speech delivered… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2016
December 1, 2016
In October 2016, the Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish Central Bank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel—commonly but incorrectly called the Nobel Prize in Economics—was awarded to two European-born,… READ MORE
Her Revolution, Her Life
December 1, 2016
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt is the author of To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution (PM Press, 2015). Margaret Randall, Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary:… READ MORE
Memories of a U.S. Political Prisoner
November 1, 2016
� David Gilbert is serving three consecutive terms of twenty-five years to life for his participation in a 1981 politically motivated offence. He will be eligible for parole in 2056,… READ MORE
The Kurdish Question Then and Now
October 1, 2016
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar. His most recent book is Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2016). Translated… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2016
September 1, 2016
On July 14, 2016, Cornel West, a Monthly Review contributor and Monthly Review Press author (his 1991 book The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought remains in print) issued a historic statement… READ MORE
Black Lives Matter and the Struggle for Freedom
September 1, 2016
Brian P. Jones is a doctoral candidate in Urban Education at CUNY Graduate Center. This article is a discussion of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket, 2016). In… READ MORE
In the boredroom
September 1, 2016
Do they yawn, these masters�of our fate and wallets�as they cast their weighted�dice together, as they weigh�our lives and find them�negligible as we do when�we swat a fly? � Do… READ MORE