Notes from the Editors, November 2015
November 1, 2015
To understand why the Middle East is now in shambles, with the United States currently involved simultaneously in wars against both the Assad government in Syria and the Islamic State… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
Wars Past and Wars to Come
November 1, 2015
John Newsinger is Professor of Modern History at Bath Spa University. His books include The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire, Fighting Back: The American Working… READ MORE
Baran and Sweezy’s ‘Monopoly Capital’, Then and Now
November 1, 2015
Benjamin Feldman is a graduate student in history at Georgetown University researching Baran and Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital as part of a larger project engaging with the politics of economic thought… READ MORE
From Incarceration to Decarceration: The Need to Abolish Prisons
November 1, 2015
Aviva Stahl is a Brooklyn-based independent journalist who focuses on prison issues. She primarily writes about solitary confinement and the communities that experience the greatest marginalization on the inside, including… READ MORE
A Torture Machine: The Violent Story of Slavery and the Beginning of American Capitalism
November 1, 2015
T.W. Walker is a Southern activist, mostly as a rank-and-file public-sector clerical worker helping organize a non-majority union. � Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and… READ MORE
Interview with Bill Gallegos
October 1, 2015
Elly Leary is a former autoworker, office worker, and labor educator who has held many union offices, including bargaining chair. She is a longtime contributor to Monthly Review. Anne Lewis… READ MORE
The Part of “Illegal” They Don’t Understand
October 1, 2015
David L. Wilson and co-author Jane Guskin are working on a revised edition of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (Monthly Review Press, July 2007). Wilson co-edited Weekly News… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2015
September 1, 2015
In this number of Monthly Review we are publishing Larry Shoup’s “‘Dangerous Circumstances’: The Council on Foreign Relations Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards China”— an article published concurrently with… READ MORE
‘Dangerous Circumstances’: The Council on Foreign Relations Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards China
September 1, 2015
Laurence H. Shoup (http://laurenceshoup.com) is an activist and the author of five books, including Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics 1976-2014… READ MORE
Secular Stagnation: Mainstream Versus Marxian Traditions
September 1, 2015
Hans G. Despain teaches political economy at Nichols College, where he is the chair of the Department of Economics. Paul M. Sweezy wrote in 1982, “it is my impression that… READ MORE