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Capitalism on a Ventilator: A new book analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. and China

While China contained COVID-19 and preserved its economy, the U.S. spins lies while hundreds of thousands of its people die for lack of even a semblance of a national health system.  | more…

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NLG condemns attempt by fascist mob incited by Trump to overturn election, complicity by law enforcement

At the root of today’s right-wing violence are centuries-long efforts to disenfranchise voters of color, made central in this presidential election.  | more…

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2021: Year of living dangerously?

Goodbye 2020, but unfortunately, not good riddance, as we all have to live with its legacy. It has been a disastrous year for much of the world for various reasons, Elizabeth II’s annus horribilis. The crisis has exposed previously unacknowledged realities, including frailties and vulnerabilities.  | more…

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January 2021 (Volume 72, Number 8)

The Editors (January 5, 2021)

We are extremely pleased to announce that John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, has won the prestigious Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2020 for his The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. | more…

The Contagion of Capital

John Bellamy Foster (January 5, 2021)

Although the current crisis of production associated with the COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened disparities, the overall problem is much longer and more deep-seated, a manifestation of the inner contradictions of monopoly-finance capital. Comprehending the basic parameters of today’s financialized capitalist system is the key to understanding the contemporary contagion of capital, a corrupting and corrosive cash nexus that is spreading to all corners of the U.S. economy, the globe, and every aspect of human existence. | more…

The Continuing Korean War in the Murderous History of Bombing

Tim Beal (January 5, 2021)

The Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, can be considered the epicenter of bombing as an instrument of war. For one, it was the first—and, so far, the last—time since 1945 that the United States seriously considered using atomic weapons during the course of an imperial war. It was the first war that the United States did not win. It ended in a stalemate—an armistice—that continues until today. Kinetic fighting was suspended, but the war continues (though only by one side) by what is conveniently but simplistically called sanctions. | more…

Disability and Welfare under Monopoly Capitalism

David Matthews (January 5, 2021)

This article will be released in full online January 11, 2020.

A historical-materialist analysis of the relationship between disability, the body, welfare, and capitalism is needed in order to further develop a Marxist understanding of disability. In this framework, we can see how the British welfare state, given recent changes to British disability policy, determines who is able-bodied and who is disabled, with this evaluation made in regard to the needs of monopoly capitalism. | more…

A Portrait of Gil Green

Michael Myerson (January 5, 2021)

This article will be released in full online January 18, 2020.

Gil Green was a revolutionary who became J. Edgar Hoover’s “most wanted man in America” until voluntarily surrendering to authorities in February 1956. He lived a life of integrity and courage. | more…

Fighting the “Immigrant Threat” Narrative

Lola Loustaunau (January 5, 2021)

This article will be released in full online January 18, 2020.

Ruth Milkman’s latest book is a strong scholarly response to the “immigrant threat” narrative that has been central to U.S. politics in the last decades. In Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat, the distinguished labor and migration scholar has a clear goal: to reframe the conversation about migration and increased inequality in the United States, reversing the causal relation that blames migration for the U.S. working class’s current perils. | more…

Standing with Standing Rock, Then and Now

Zoltán Grossman (January 5, 2021)

This article will be released in full online January 25, 2020.

The story of the Indigenous movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017 has been the subject of numerous articles and documentaries, many of which depict it mainly as an environmental and climate justice campaign to stop the pipeline from crossing the Mni Sose (Missouri River), just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon’s edited collection Standing with Standing Rock tells a richer and more complex story of decolonization and indigenization from the frontlines. | more…

The great denial

Marge Piercy (January 5, 2021)

A new poem by Marge Piercy. | more…

December 2020 (Volume 72, Number 7)

The Editors (December 2, 2020)

The United States is now in a New Cold War with Russia and China, with the focus increasingly on the latter and involving a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony over the world economy. | more…

The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology

John Bellamy Foster (December 2, 2020)

In an interview with Alejandro Pedregal, John Bellamy Foster tells us about the paths great ecosocialist thinkers traveled, the most prominent debates in current Marxist ecological thought, and the urgent need for a project that transcends the conditions that threaten the existence of our planet today. | more…

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