Navigating the Brexit Strait
October 1, 2019
Costas Lapavitsas’s The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2019) is recognized as the leading work advocating Lexit, the left-wing case for Brexit, and for nations leaving the European Union… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Learning from Brexit: A Socialist Stance Toward the European Union
October 1, 2019
Costas Lapavitsas’s The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2019) is recognized as the leading work advocating Lexit, the left-wing case for Brexit, and for nations leaving the European Union… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2019
September 1, 2019
Margaret Benston’s publication fifty years ago of “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” commemorated in the present issue of Monthly Review, sparked a revolution in Marxian thought, generating a new… READ MORE
The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
September 1, 2019
Margaret Benston (1937–91) was a faculty member of the Chemistry Department at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation” was first published in Monthly… READ MORE
She Was My Kind of Scientist: Margaret Benston and the Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
September 1, 2019
Lise Vogel, a veteran of the civil rights and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s, is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Rider University. She lives in New York and is… READ MORE
Women, Class, and Identity Politics: Reflections on Feminism and Its Future
September 1, 2019
Martha E. Gimenez is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction (Leiden: Brill, 2018).* It is… READ MORE
On Margaret Benston: The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
September 1, 2019
Silvia Federici was a cofounder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, as well as the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the Radical Philosophers’ Anti-Death Penalty Project. She… READ MORE
Straggling onward
September 1, 2019
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth. The meanness of it gets… READ MORE
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End
July 1, 2019
Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emerita at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her books include Peasant Class Differentiation (1987), The Long Transition (1999), and… READ MORE
The Preemptive Counterrevolution and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil
July 1, 2019
Ricardo Antunes is professor of sociology at the University of Campinas in Brazil. He is the author of many books, including The Meanings of Work (Haymarket Books, 2013). His research… READ MORE