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  • Bagels, Grapes and Marijuana: A Day in the Country

    Bagels, grapes and marijuana: a day in the country

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on October 18, 2021 (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life)

    The bagels at Homegrown are some of the best in northern California, in part because the owner, Stuart Teitelbaum, who was born and raised in Manhattan on the Lower East Side, and grew up eating bagels and bialys.

  • Howard Zinn’s Zen Politics

    Jonah Raskin

    Howard Zinn.  The Historic Unfulfilled Promise.  Foreword by Matthew Rothschild.  San Francisco: City Lights, 2012.  256 pages. Howard Zinn was called a lot of different names: anarchist, socialist, and communist.  He called himself a lot of different names, too: anarchist, socialist, and communist.  No one ever seems to have called him Zen, but maybe it’s […]

  • Marxism Is the Mother Lode for all Critiques of Capitalism: An Interview with Alexander Saxton

    Jonah Raskin

    A longtime reader of Monthly Review, and a Marxist for all his adult life, Alexander Saxton might be one of the oldest, continuously active radicals in the United States.  Born in Manhattan in 1919, he met the novelist, John Dos Passos, and the poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, when he was a young man, and […]

Also By Jonah Raskin in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Hans Fallada’s Anti-Fascist Fiction December 01, 2011
  • Red Cop in Red China October 01, 2010
  • Saying More with Less: Eduardo Galeano interviewed by Jonah Raskin October 01, 2009
  • Mao Zedong: Chinese, Communist, Poet May 01, 2009
  • The Iron Heel at 100: Jack London—The Artist as “Antenna of the Race” March 01, 2008

Books By Jonah Raskin

  • The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature and Society in the Modern Age July 31, 2005

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone © UN Photo/Martine Perret | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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