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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Civil War measure suggests direction to break Big Tech’s assault today.

    Confiscation, reparations and reconstruction’s solution to the “Elon Musk problem”

    Originally published: FIghting Words on February 28, 2025 by Chris Fry (more by FIghting Words) (Posted Mar 08, 2025)

    In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem.

  • US warships off the China coast. China’s socialist economy is seen as a threat to US capitalism so tariffs and war maneuvers are used to threaten the People’s Republic.

    U.S. economists ‘expose’ China’s economy

    Originally published: FIghting Words on July 30, 2024 by Chris Fry (more by FIghting Words) (Posted Aug 03, 2024)

    Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending demise of the socialist economic model in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), find every opportunity to throw shade on China’s economic system.

  • U.S. warships a provocation to China as they patrol the Taiwan straits.

    Taiwan elections: U.S. beats the war drums despite the vote

    Originally published: FIghting Words on February 11, 2024 by Chris Fry (more by FIghting Words) (Posted Feb 19, 2024)

    When the election results for Taiwan’s president and legislature were announced on January 13, the U.S. corporate media seemed jubilant.

  • Artificial Intelligence challenges working class from Hollywood to the Pentagon. | Image: geeksforgeeks.org

    Artificial Intelligence and the class struggle

    Originally published: FIghting Words on July 24, 2023 by Chris Fry (more by FIghting Words) (Posted Aug 03, 2023)

    Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation.

  • Taiwan’s President Tsai and the ruling DPP were rebuffed by voters in local elections. Photo: taiwannews.com.tw

    Taiwan local election shocks U.S. imperialism

    Originally published: FIghting Words on December 16, 2022 by Chris Fry (more by FIghting Words) (Posted Dec 22, 2022)

    Before the 2022 elections, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, had campaigned for her ruling “Democratic Progressive Party” (DPP) candidates with the assertion that Taiwan is an independent nation and should prepare to wage war.

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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