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  • Misbehaving

    Review – Misbehaving

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on March 29, 2021 by Alice Robson (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2021)

    A new edited volume emphasises that the personal is political and highlights the power of spectacular direct action, says Alice Robson

  • The Advanced Test Reactor has been testing fuels and materials for the nuclear Navy, government and commercial industry since 1967. It also produces valuable medical and industrial isotopes.

    What Bill Gates has wrong about “advanced” nuclear reactors

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on April 13, 2021 by Colleen MacDonald (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2021)

    If nuclear power needs to be part of the climate solution, why not continue to use what we have? I understand the reactors that we have are aging out. But why not either shore those up or use the same design that we currently have where we wouldn’t have to go through the lengthy and costly development phase?

  • French Citizens Convention on Climate Change

    For an ecosocialist transition that breaks from capitalism: Arguments and proposals

    Originally published: Global Ecosocialist Network on April 13, 2021 by Claude Calame (more by Global Ecosocialist Network)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2021)

    The 149 proposals issued by the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate last June, with the goal of achieving at least a 40% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 1990, manifestly belong to a thoroughly reformist approach.

  • Zhang Boju poses for a photo in Beijing, March 2, 2021. Shi Yangkun/Sixth Tone)

    Battles lost, wars won: An environmentalist’s story

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on April 15, 2021 by Li You (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2021)

    After Friends of Nature director-general Zhang Boju saw his activism fail, he went another route.

  • Port of Los Angeles

    Truck drivers strike at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

    Originally published: Splash 247 on April 14, 2021 by Kim Biggar (more by Splash 247)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2021)

    Truck drivers at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, represented by the Teamsters union, started strike action against Universal Logistics Holdings (ULH) this week, adding further to extraordinary congestion woes at America’s principle west coast maritime gateways.

  • Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva

    Ramsey Clark dies: an Attorney General who turned against imperialism

    Originally published: Liberation on April 10, 2021 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood against U.S. military aggression worldwide, died peacefully April 9 at his home in New York City, surrounded by close family. He was 93 years old.

  • Environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits perform to denounce the Japanese government's decision on Fukushima water, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea

    Grave concerns raised as Japan announces release of radioactive water into the sea

    Originally published: Morning Star on April 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    JAPAN has come under fire after its government announced today that it would release more than a million metric tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

  • From 5 percent annual emissions growth to 2013, to a dead stop thereafter, is nothing short of remarkable.

    What about China?

    Originally published: Carbon Tax Center on April 2021 (more by Carbon Tax Center) (Posted Apr 14, 2021)

    China surged past the United States to become the #1 carbon emitter in 2006. Currently (2019 data from BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy), its CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning are over 9,800 million metric tons (“tonnes”) a year.

  • U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska (Twitter: Steven Donziger)

    Judge Preska terminates all Zoom access to Donziger trial in effort to limit public access, say lawyers

    Originally published: Make Chevron Clean Up on April 7, 2021 by Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (more by Make Chevron Clean Up) (Posted Apr 14, 2021)

    U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska has denied all Zoom access to the upcoming contempt trial of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger in a widely condemned move that his lawyers say is designed to limit public access to an unprecedented one-sided trial run by a private Chevron prosecutor. 

  • Samir Amin

    Samir Amin – a Marxist with blood in his veins

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on March 18, 2021 by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Francisco Pérez, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Francesco Macheda, Roberto Nadalini, Fathimath Musthaq, Max Ajl (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    Following the publication of the special issue on Samir Amin, we post short interviews by the authors on the influence of Amin on their lives and research.

  • COVID-19 - A Socialist Response

    COVID-19 – A socialist response

    Originally published: The Left Berlin along with Gizem Fesli and Vitor Guimarães on April 8, 2021 (more by The Left Berlin along with Gizem Fesli and Vitor Guimarães)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    COVID-19 – A socialist response

  • Eric Hobsbawm. Credit- Twitter

    Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

    Originally published: LRB (London Review of Books) on April 2021 (more by LRB (London Review of Books))  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told.

  • Chinese Woman Fights Back Against Sexual Harassment — With a Mop

    Chinese woman fights back against sexual harassment—with a mop

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on April 12, 2021 by Zhang Wanqing (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2021)

    A video clip has emerged showing a female office worker beating her over-eager boss with a cleaning instrument, to the delight of women viewers.

  • China and climate change: an exchange

    Richard Smith and Simon Pirani and Eds.

    In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith’s book, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani’s related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China and the environment. Both Smith and Pirani have written replies to our March editorial, which we are publishing here, along with our own rejoinder.

  • Rosa

    Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on April 5, 2021 by Helen Scott (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2021)

    Her understanding of oppression was bolstered by personal circumstances: female in an overwhelmingly male public sphere, Jewish in a climate of vicious antisemitism, Polish at a time when Poles suffered national oppression, and an individual who lived with a disability.

  • Heterodox Economics and Crypto-Marxism Search

    Heterodox economics and crypto-Marxism

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 7, 2021 by Cian McMahon & Terrence McDonough (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2021)

    A series of notable recent anniversaries in the heterodox (non-mainstream/non-orthodox) economics calendar have prompted a reconsideration of Karl Marx’s lasting influence within the field.

  • Two posters with messages for DC Council members Pinto and McDuffie behind supply tables at the rally. Eleanor Goldfield | ArtKillingApathy.com

    Moth-eaten eviction moratorium leaves hundreds of thousands without a roof

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 7, 2021 by Eleanor Goldfield (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2021)

    During the pandemic, landlords have filed for 284,490 evictions–and that’s just in five states and 27 cities. But how could this be? After all, a moratorium shouldn’t allow for hundreds of thousands of households to fall through the cracks.

  • Aftermath of Ukrainian rocket-launcher attack in Donetsk, March 4. Photo: Donetsk International

    Ukraine, U.S. drum up war threats against Donbass and Russia

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 2, 2021 by Greg Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    The USA has the unique condition of being a flagrant violator of human rights within its own borders and in practically every region of the world. No other nation has such a systematic record. Its massive control of media and communications hides this truth from its own people.

  • Assimilation and Empire

    Assimilation and empire

    Originally published: Qiao Collective on April 1, 2021 by Xin (more by Qiao Collective)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an exponential increase in violence against Asian Americans: in New York alone, it’s been reported that violence rose by 1900%, fueled by anti-Asian sentiment.

  • NDP Which Way

    Grassroots Resolutions and Party Democracy: The 2021 NDP Convention

    Originally published: Socialist Project on April 7, 2021 by Bruce Kecskes (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    In so far as participating in bourgeois democracy remains a component of socialist strategy in Canada, voters on the Left are largely limited electorally to the New Democratic Party (NDP).

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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