Notes from the Editors, February 2014
February 1, 2014
A comparison of the present state of the natural sciences with that of the social (or human) sciences cannot but give rise to a disquieting sense of the relative poverty… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Sharp Left Turn for the Media Reform Movement: Toward a Post-Capitalist Democracy
February 1, 2014
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the… READ MORE
Saving Our Unions: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win?
February 1, 2014
Steve Early was a national union representative and organizer for twenty-seven years. He is the author of three books about labor. This article is excerpted from his new book Save… READ MORE
Social Inequities and Exclusions in Kerala’s ‘Egalitarian’ Development
February 1, 2014
C.U. Thresia was trained in anthropology, social medicine, and community health; her research interests span politics and history of public health, and women’s health. She is currently pursuing research on… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2014
January 1, 2014
On November 16, 2013, Paul Krugman published a piece on his New York Times blog entitled “Secular Stagnation, Coalmines, Bubbles, and Larry Summers,” consisting of an extended commentary on former… READ MORE
The Plight of the U.S. Working Class
January 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
The Labor Share Question in China
January 1, 2014
Hao Qi hqi [at] econs.umass.edu is a PhD candidate of the department of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include Marxian political economy and income distribution. In… READ MORE
European Labor: Political and Ideological Crisis in an Increasingly More Authoritarian European Union
January 1, 2014
Asbjørn Wahl is Adviser to the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees, Vice Chair of the Road Transport Workers’ Section of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and Director of the… READ MORE
Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature
December 1, 2013
This article is an expanded and slightly altered version of a keynote address under the same title presented to the Marxism 2013 Conference in Stockholm on October 20, 2013. That… READ MORE
It’s the System Stupid: Structural Crises and the Need for Alternatives to Capitalism
November 1, 2013
Hans G. Despain teaches political economy at Nichols College, where he is the Chair of the Department of Economics. On Thursday, December 13, 2012, The Guardian announced Queen Elizabeth finally… READ MORE