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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Capitalism’s permanent horror

    Capitalism’s permanent horror

    Originally published: Capitalism’s permanent horror on March 17, 2024 (more by Capitalism’s permanent horror)

    Government officials said that they were interested in killing only “terrorists”. But the “terrorists” were supported by most of the population, whom the authorities in fact considered collaborators and fair game.

  • Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders

    Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders

    Originally published: Red Flag on November 5, 2023 (more by Red Flag)  |

    A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are investigating and urging people to contact Crime Stoppers if they have any “information in relation to the incident”.

  • Capitalism IS the Crisis May 25, 2013 March from Union Square to Washington Square New York, NY

    The magic of capitalism

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 24, 2023 (more by Red Flag)  |

    Spend less, work longer or get another job, move in with your parents or get a flatmate. But whatever you do, don’t push for a pay rise to compensate for inflation.

  • Trump charges: why ‘unprecedented’?

    Trump charges: why ‘unprecedented’?

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 17, 2023 (more by Red Flag)  |

    “It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment”, the New York Times editorial board wrote on 9 June, noting Trump’s “contempt for the rule of law”.

  • Donald Trump

    A farcical U.S. election cycle begins—again

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 30, 2023 (more by Red Flag)  |

    A recent NBC News poll found that 70 percent of U.S. voters don’t want Joe Biden to recontest the presidency next year. Sixty percent feel likewise about Donald Trump.

  • What would be different about a socialist economy?

    What would be different about a socialist economy?

    Originally published: Red Flag on July 23, 2022 (more by Red Flag)  |

    The New York Stock Exchange is perhaps the premier institutional expression of the capitalist economy.

  • The ruling class in Australia

    The ruling class in Australia

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 14, 2022 (more by Red Flag)  |

    Who rules Australia? The politicians, the ultra-wealthy class of capitalists or the high-powered bureaucrats who run the state—the military generals, court justices, heads of government departments and so on? The answer is all three. Together, they make up the Australian ruling class.

  • Jeff Bezos, recently retired CEO of Amazon, whose warehouses were notoriously unhygienic

    What coronavirus taught us about the ruling class

    Originally published: Red Flag on February 20, 2021 (more by Red Flag)  |

    If half a million people in the United States were murdered by an evil cult, the leaders of which said that they would keep killing thousands a day to satisfy their rapacious urge for power and money, what do you think the response would be?

  • Capitol Building

    ‘We’re witnessing a fundamental political realignment’: Mike Davis on the crisis in the United States

    Originally published: Red Flag on January 15, 2021 (more by Red Flag)  |

    In the wake of the deadly riot in Washington, DC, and with the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden just days away, Ben Hillier spoke to Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream and Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory, about the crises and transformations of U.S. politics.

  • The United States is not a democracy

    The United States is not a democracy

    Originally published: Red Flag on October 2, 2020 (more by Red Flag)  |

    The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population.

  • The economic crash is already ravaging Africa

    The economic crash is already ravaging Africa

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 3, 2020 (more by Red Flag)  |

    Sub-Saharan Africa is facing its greatest crisis in generations. The continent thus far has been less affected by the pandemic than other parts of the world. But the impact of the global economic crisis is already enormous.

  • Julian Assange must be supported

    Julian Assange must be supported

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 11, 2020 (more by Red Flag)  |

    If the U.S. government succeeds in extraditing Julian Assange, it will be a major victory for U.S. imperialism–a promise that anyone getting in its way will ultimately pay the price.

  • Coronavirus

    Coronavirus: a disaster of capitalism’s making

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 2, 2020 (more by Red Flag)  |

    What to do if confronted with an extremely contagious virus that medical experts say they have not seen before and don’t understand, and which is fast spreading and killing hundreds of people? a) Take precautionary measures to stop the virus spreading and prepare the health system for a potential shock? Or b) Ignore it, blithely assert – without any evidence – that it is little different from the common flu, accuse your adversaries.

  • Results and prospects from the US midterm elections

    Results and prospects from the U.S. midterm elections: a discussion with Lance Selfa

    Originally published: Red Flag on November 19, 2018 (more by Red Flag)  |

    Red Flag editor Ben Hillier speaks with Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History and editor of the essay collection U.S. Politics in an Age of Uncertainty, about the meaning of the midterm election results and what comes next.

  • Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban

    As an anti-Semitic fascist movement grows, Zionists attack the anti-fascist left

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 21, 2018 (more by Red Flag)  |

    Far right politics is making a comeback. And with it comes political anti-Semitism.

  • Capitalism vs. Socialism

    What do we mean by socialism?

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 8, 2018 (more by Red Flag)  |

    What the hell is socialism, anyway? Over the last decade, it has been one of the most frequently looked up words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. And it’s easy to see why so many people feel the need for clarification.

  • United against Us, Divided among Themselves: Toronto and European Assault on Living Standards

    Ben Hillier

      Martin Wolf described it as “a bloodbath.”  The Financial Times editorial called it a “chilling read.”  Britain’s budget is one of austerity, the likes of which has not been seen in generations.  A 25 per cent cut in public spending; a quarter of a million or more public sector jobs to be slashed.  It […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Journalism, democracy, … and class struggle
    Robert W. McChesney Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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    ‘Let all Hell break loose’: The Gaza ceasefire and how we all got played
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    Don’t Negotiate: Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Under Attack by the Trump Administration from Harvard Law Professor of Negotiation (April 13, 2025)
  • The Elwha River, pictured here, is one of Olympic National Park's most important natural features. The illegal construction of two dams in the early 1900s blocked salmon from reaching their ancestral upstream spawning sites, but both are now gone, and the Elwha flows freely from its headwaters to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This is a view of the river from where the Glines Canyon Dam used to be. (Photo: Andrew Villeneuve/NPI)
    America’s national parks are among the victims of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to drown our government in a bathtub
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    The State of Capitalism in Flux: Economy, Society, and Hegemony under Today’s Interregnum
  • Chris Smalls addressed the HANDS OFF crowd in Los Angeles. The Palestinian flags and keffiyehs were there throughout the rally.
    HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?
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    Trump advisor reveals tariff strategy: Force countries to pay tribute to maintain U.S. empire
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