July 1, 2026
This month's "Notes from the Editors," originally published in May by the German Quarterly, explores the last few decades of U.S. belligerence in Iran, culminating in the Trump administration's recent acts of war in the region. Together with Israel, the Editors write, the United States "has entrapped itself in an imperialist war that it cannot win," thus underscoring the necessity of a global anti-imperialist peace movement.
July 1, 2026
It is quite evident, Costas Lapavitsas begins, that the world is currently ensnared in geopolitical turmoil, perhaps for over a decade. In this article, Lapavitsas provides insight into the inseparable and interlocking mechanisms of dollar dominance and imperialism backed by the escalatory militarism of the second Trump administration. As Lapavitsas notes: "The dollar and the F-35—monetary coercion and military power—are two moments of a single structure of domination."
April 1, 2026
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
March 1, 2026
"To make sense of present developments," MR editors write in this month's "Notes from the Editors," "it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy." By charting the evolution from post-Second World War dominance to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the eventual demise of the "Unipolar Moment," the Editors tie the reactionary impulses of MAGA to the raw shows of imperial force driven by Trump's policies.
February 1, 2026
In this illuminating article, Hèla Yousfi explores the history of solidarity of the Tunisian left and labor movements with the struggle for Palestinian liberation. Through this recounting, Yousfi is able to map out a history of how the brutal occupation of Palestine has influenced political consciousness not only in Tunisia, but throughout the Arab world.
September 1, 2025
In this interview, published here for the first time in English, Abdaljawad Omar (aka Abboud Hamayel) and Pasquale Liguori discuss Western media attempts to force upon Palestinians narratives of either victimhood or savagery. These portrayals, however, only obscure the threat Palestinian resistance poses not just to Zionism, but to the colonial project globally.
June 1, 2025
Thomas Palley identifies and illuminates both the internal and external drivers of the war in Ukraine. Through this article, he explores how the breakup of the Soviet Union, the aggressive expansion of NATO, U.S. neoconservative geopolitics, present-day Ukraine's domestic tensions, and other factors led to the current conflict, in which the only winner seems to be the United States.
April 1, 2025
"The Big Business-military coalition in the United States," Paul A. Baran wrote in this prescient reprise from 1952, "assumes all of the functions of a fascist regime…. And it develops rapidly into its own American variety of government under capitalism in an age of imperialism, wars, and national and social revolutions. It becomes fully adapted to its sinister historical mission—to be the instrument of ruthless class struggle on the national and international planes."
September 1, 2024
This month's "Notes from the Editors" recounts the history of U.S. preparations for "prolonged and limited" nuclear war and Washington's repeated refusal to abide by international agreements regarding nuclear weaponry. With the recent announcement that the United States will be stationing nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles on German soil—within minutes' striking distance of Moscow—this history is now, troublingly, more relevant than ever.
