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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • nuclear power

    The false promise of nuclear power: A review of M.V. Ramana’s ‘Nuclear is Not the Solution’

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on November 1, 2025 by Warren Bernauer (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 13, 2025)

    The shimmer of nuclear power seems to be growing brighter of late, ensnaring even those on the left.

  • Kira Buro

    Fighting rising anti-trans hate

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on July 24, 2024 by Phoebe Fuller (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2024)

    One North Vancouver overpass holds lessons in defending against far-right radicalism through counterprotest.

  • Janey Starling

    Fighting fascism in feminism

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on May 8, 2023 by Chanelle Gallant (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted May 17, 2023)

    I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called feminists who were dead set on criminalizing sex work, even if it cost women their lives. Back in 2004, I was new to sex work organizing, spurred by the massacre of street-based sex workers on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

  • Jonathan Soren Davidson for Disabled And Here.

    Abolish long-term care

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on January 25, 2022 by Sophie Jean and Megan Linton (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted Jan 27, 2022)

    The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the horrific conditions in long-term care facilities. The institutions are a perfect storm for outbreaks: poor ventilation, understaffing, insufficient personal protective equipment (PPE), a lack of regulation, and years of underfunding.

  • Dina Polekhina/Unsplash

    Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on July 29, 2021 by F.T. Green (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

    In 1985, Canada began drug testing the urine of federal prisoners. Prison officials had tried to stop people from smuggling drugs into prisons by banning Christmas presents and even deploying teams of gerbils to sniff out anxious visitors.

  • Michael DeForge

    The city vs. Big Tech

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on July 2, 2019 by Nabeel Ahmed (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 10, 2019)

    The battle against Big Tech has now decisively emerged as a new front in the fight for the right to the city

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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