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Marxist theorist and militant Chris Gilbert has been involved in the Bolivarian Revolution for two decades. In this interview, conducted on February 22, 2026, he offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region.

Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Andreas Vavvos in conjunction with a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism, edited by Vavvos, Leigh Price, and Jan Zumoberhaus. A video of the conversation is below.  

Hoel Le Moal: Marx seems to have been obsessed with the question of communal property throughout his life. In your article “Marx and Communal Society for the July-August 2025 issue of Monthly Review, you quote Marx in his Grundrisse as saying that “as a member of the commune, the individual is the private proprietor” of a “particular plot of land.

On November 28, 2025, the editors of Theory & Struggle, the journal of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in London, interviewed Gabriel Rockhill about his new book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Watch a video of the interview below.

On December 11, 2025, the Critical Theory Workshop hosted an online book launch and discussion in celebration of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Rockhill was joined in conversation by Ali Kadri and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, with Jennifer Ponce de León as moderator. A […]

Devotion to San Benito of Palermo, a Black saint symbolizing both spirituality and resistance, plays an important role in the culture of Palmarito. The chants, drums, and rituals associated with the sain function both as religious practices and as forms of collective organization, memory, and identity.

A relationship between a U.S. and a Mexican union, forged in the face of NAFTA, has borne fruit over decades of struggle. Two leaders reflect on the importance of international solidarity.

An Exchange from 2002–⁠03

An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.

South Africa is sitting on a tinderbox, says Irvin Jim, General Secretary of the country’s largest trade union NUMSA. The solution is to foster a spirit of solidarity which will have to come from people’s struggles and movements.

We have to recognize that there is a pathway forward for humanity, but that the capitalist world system, and today’s governments that are largely subservient to corporations and the wealthy, are blocking that pathway, simply because it requires revolutionary-scale socioecological change.

Chávez’s agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.

Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire and the financial motivations behind the U.S. new cold war on China and Russia.

Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Chavez’s former Vice President and long-time minister talks about the internal dynamics of the Bolivarian process.

Freedman notes that Guardian editor, Kath Viner, promised that her newspaper would ‘challenge the economic assumptions of the last three decades’, ‘challenge the powerful’ and ‘use clarity and imagination to build hope’.

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.

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.

Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is another meaty talk with Michael Hudson, this time focusing on his classic Super Imperialism. Hudson has an updated and expanded version set to go to print soon.

Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments.