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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Rabea Eghbariah

    “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian lawyer censored by Columbia and Harvard

    Originally published: DemocracyNow! on June 5, 2024 (more by DemocracyNow!)

    The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.”

  • Ben Crump

    Malcolm X assassination: Former security guards reveal new details pointing to FBI, NYPD conspiracy

    Originally published: DemocracyNow! on February 22, 2024 (more by DemocracyNow!)

    On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed.

  • Vijay Prashad on BRICS

    Vijay Prashad on BRICS & why Global South cooperation is key to dismantling unjust World Order

    Originally published: DemocracyNow! on August 22, 2023 (more by DemocracyNow!)

    BRICS countries represent 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s economy, and the group is now considering a possible expansion to more than 20 other countries.

  • Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

    Everybody should see “Every Body”

    Originally published: DemocracyNow! on July 13, 2023 by Denis Moynihan (more by DemocracyNow!) (Posted Jul 19, 2023)

    A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.

  • Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United States: Interview with Zainab Alkhawaja and Nabeel Rajab

    Amy Goodman

    Amy Goodman: The Bahraini government is intensifying its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.  In a pre-dawn raid Saturday, masked police officers broke into the home of Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, a prominent Bahraini human rights activist.  Alkhawaja and other family members were beaten and detained.  They remain in police custody at an unknown location.  Human Rights Watch has […]

  • Is Syria Like Egypt and Tunisia?  Interview with Bassam Haddad

    Amy Goodman

    Bassam Haddad: The differences between Syria and Egypt and Tunisia are several.  This does not mean that things cannot spin out of control to produce the same effect.  But, structurally speaking, the Syrian society is far more heterogeneous and divided than either the Egyptian or the Tunisian society.  So the opposition is not cohesive.  There […]

  • “They Want to Abort This Revolution, But We Will Win”: Interview with Nawal El Saadawi

    Amy Goodman and Nawal El Saadawi

      Amy Goodman: Your feelings today in the midst of this popular rebellion against the Mubarak regime, calling on Mubarak to leave?  Do you agree? Nawal El Saadawi: We are in the streets every day, people, children, old people, including myself.  I am now 80 years of age, suffering of this regime for half a […]

  • People “Want a New Government” in Egypt: Interview with Ahmad Shokr, Editor, Al-Masry Al-Youm

    Ahmad Shokr and Amy Goodman and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

    Ahmad Shokr: Well, the scenes right now are quite remarkable. Literally, tens of thousands are taking to the streets amidst a huge security presence. I’m standing in front of a demonstration of at least a few thousand people who have taken over one of the main bridges in Cairo, calling for the ouster of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. They have raised their hands, stating that they’re peaceful protesters, but have been met by a shower of rubber bullets and tear gas.

  • The Strongest Protests in Egypt since 1977: Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy

    Amy Goodman

    Listen to the interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy: Hossam el-Hamalawy: Egypt yesterday witnessed its strongest protests in probably four decades, since 1977: tens of thousands have taken to the streets in virtually all the cities of our country, chanting against Mubarak, chanting against the U.S., which is backing Mubarak, calling for internal reforms and for democracy. […]

  • About South of the Border

    Amy Goodman and Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone

      Listen to Amy Goodman’s interview with Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: Oliver Stone: So, Chávez was sort of a natural [as a subject for his work] because he is such a demonized, polarizing figure, but when I met him, it was not at all what I thought, you know, what we made him out […]

  • The Unspoken Alliance: Military and Nuclear Ties between Israel and Apartheid South Africa

    Sasha Polakow-Suransky and Amy Goodman

      Amy Goodman: As nuclear nonproliferation talks at the United Nations focus on the Middle East this week, we turn to new revelations about Israel’s nuclear weapons program and its close alliance with apartheid South Africa. Israeli President Shimon Peres has denied reports that he offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa when […]

  • Interview with Avi Shlaim:Israel’s “State Terror” in Gaza

    Amy Goodman

    Introduction by Lincoln Shlensky Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, in an audio/video interview (also transcribed) with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, breaks down the responsibility for the current war in Gaza and clarifies the definition of “terror” as a term that should be applied both to Hamas and Israel.  Based on Israeli Ministry of Defense statistics […]

  • General Strike in Greece: “Next Thursday Would Be a Good Day for Solidarity Action All around the World” — Nikos Lountos

    Nikos Lountos and Amy Goodman

      “Our community is expanding: MRZine viewers have increased in number, as have the readers of our editions published outside the United States and in languages other than English.  We sense a sharp increase in interest in our perspective and its history.   Many in our community have made use of the MR archive we […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
    Iker Suarez A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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