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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Photo: Wiki Media Commons

    The USS Lincoln’s ‘leisure trip’ to Thailand: a port call of U.S. neocolonialism and femicide

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on September 2, 2026 by Benyasiri Eimviriyapong (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Sep 04, 2026)

    The system where women are systematically wrapped into sex work due to existing infrastructure and poverty, where U.S. military presence creates the demand, and where Western tourism perpetuates supply–this is femicide.

  • Vijay Prashad Blasts the ‘Shady’ Guardian Iran Letter

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on August 25, 2026 (more by BreakThrough News)  |
  • Historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch is inducted into French pantheon. Photo: AP

    Anti-fascist historian Marc Bloch is inducted into France’s National Panthéon

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on July 5, 2026 by Pablo Meriguet (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2026)

    The medievalist scholar was captured by the Gestapo while participating in the French Resistance and was later tortured and executed by firing squad.

  • Servers and cables. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

    The left and breaching capitalism’s digital fortress

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on July 1, 2026 by Rezgar Akrawi (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2026)

    How can movements confront a digital capitalism that has become technologically advanced to an unprecedented degree?

  • NewsClick Founder Prabir Purkayashta. Photo: Anya Shanker/FB

    Court throws out cases against NewsClick and founder Prabir Purkayashta, calls them ‘gross abuse of the process of law’

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on June 11, 2026 by Abdul Rahman (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2026)

    NewsClick and various unions welcomed the verdict, hailing the Delhi High Court ruling as a strong stand in support of independent journalism and a warning against the misuse of state power.

  • Mural of Paulo Freire at the entrance to the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) in Guararema, Brazil, 2018. Richard Pithouse

    ‘1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag’

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on April 21, 2023 by BreakThrough News Staff (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2023)

    The one-million strong Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a backbone of the Brazilian left, famous for its mass actions and radical land occupations all across the Brazilian countryside.

  • Red Star Over the Third World w/ Vijay Prashad: Lessons of Soviet History, Part 2

    Red Star Over the Third World w/ Vijay Prashad: Lessons of Soviet History, Part 2

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on December 15, 2021 by BreakThrough News (more by BreakThrough News)  |

    Russia’s October Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Soviet power reverberated across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, and Middle East – that part of the world that lived under the ravages of colonialism and under-development.

  • U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today w/ Dr. Gerald Horne

    ‘U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today’ w/ Dr. Gerald Horne

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on November 23, 2021 by Breakthrough News with Dr. Gerald Horne (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 27, 2021)

    The Thanksgiving holiday is built around an insidious and false creation myth–that the so-called “settling” of North America was a peaceful and amicable process.

  • Shoplifting propoganda

    Fake ‘shoplifting surge’ is just the latest in crime wave propaganda

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on November 12, 2021 by Eugene Puryear (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2021)

    The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.

  • Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and author of “Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations.”

    Is a multipolar world the answer to U.S. imperialism?

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on October 26, 2021 (more by BreakThrough News)  |

    Is there a growing resistance to the unipolar imperial order? Is the U.S. an empire in decline? Will the future be a multipolar one? If so, what does that mean ans how should the left in the imperialist core respond?

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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