• Helena Sheehan Opens the 2024 Red Flag Festival
    Helena Sheehan Opens the 2024 Red Flag Festival

    Socialist author and activist Helena Sheehan opened the 2024 Red Flag Festival with readings from her books and reflections on her life in the Labour movement that has spanned more than seven decades.

    John Bellamy Foster on Albert Einstein’s Radical Politics
    John Bellamy Foster on Albert Einstein’s Radical Politics

    A brilliant theoretical physicist best known for his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein was also a socialist. John Bellamy Foster describes Einstein’s radical political commitments, including his efforts in relation to the founding of Brandeis University, his role in the Henry Wallace campaign, and his seminal essay “Why Socialism?”

    A Life in the Law on the Left: The Life and Legacy of Comrade Martin Stolar
    A Life in the Law on the Left: The Life and Legacy of Comrade Martin Stolar

    Sam Falcone pays tribute to the great life of Martin Stolar. We at Monthly Review appreciated and loved him, and mourn his death.

    Squaring circles for peace and war: Berlin Bulletin No. 224, July 11, 2024
    Squaring circles for peace and war: Berlin Bulletin No. 224, July 11, 2024

    One can hate or admire any of the gentlemen now involved [in the push for peace in Ukraine]; I would endorse Satan himself if he could help end this God-awful war and move towards the urgently-needed peace in the area—and elsewhere.

    A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia
    A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia

    Andy Merrifield went to Sardinia searching for Gramsci’s phantom. We can’t reinvent Gramsci’s past, shouldn’t reinvent that past. But we might keep his memory alive, find solidarity in that memory, keep him free from any renaming, from the encyclopedia and the axe. His phantom, his death mask, can haunt our present and our future. To remember what happened to him is never to forget his dark times, the dark times that might well threaten us again.

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