Notes from the Editors, May 2006
May 1, 2006
When MRzine was launched on Bastille Day, July 14, 2005, Eduardo Galeano greeted it with the words: “Monthly Review in conquest of the air? Wasn’t it a private kingdom of… READ MORE
May 1, 2006
When MRzine was launched on Bastille Day, July 14, 2005, Eduardo Galeano greeted it with the words: “Monthly Review in conquest of the air? Wasn’t it a private kingdom of… READ MORE
January 1, 2006
The United States is currently engaged in what the media—with no trace of irony—is calling “the national debate on torture.” With the White House adamantly rejecting Senator John McCain’s amendment… READ MORE
October 1, 2005
The much-anticipated split in the AFL-CIO, the labor federation in the United States, took place in Chicago, at the federation’s annual convention. Three unions—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the… READ MORE
June 1, 2005
Andre Gunder Frank, one of the leading radical social scientists of the late twentieth century and a long-time friend and contributor to Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press, died on… READ MORE
May 1, 2005
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the… READ MORE
April 1, 2005
Annette Rubinstein’s ninety-fifth birthday will be celebrated on Saturday April 9 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the new home of the Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School, at Westbeth, 451… READ MORE
March 1, 2005
In the face of continuing right-wing attacks on Social Security since the Reagan era in the 1980s, MR has responded repeatedly by pointing to the phony nature of the Social… READ MORE
February 1, 2005
The battle over the future of Social Security, the site of continual skirmishes since the Reagan era, is now being waged in earnest (for a history of this struggle see… READ MORE
January 1, 2005
Linda C. Forbes teaches organizational studies at franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.This interview was originally published in Organization & Environment 17, no. 4: 513–522, as “Pete Seeger On… READ MORE
June 1, 2004
A note to MR readers from Bob McChesney… � In 2000 I agreed to become coeditor of Monthly Review along with my dear friend John Bellamy Foster. I had been… READ MORE