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  •    December 2025 Volume 77 Number 7   MR Online

    Notes from the Editors – December 2025 (Volume 77, Number 7)

    Originally published: Monthly Review on Vol. 77, No. 07 (December 2025) (more by Monthly Review)  |

    It is widely understood today that the United States is confronted with a pervasive neofascist threat. Evidence of this is visible now throughout society, not least of all in Donald Trump’s White House itself.

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    Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution

    Originally published: Monthly Review on April 1, 2015 (more by Monthly Review)  |

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

  •    Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism   MR Online

    Journalism, democracy, … and class struggle

    Originally published: Monthly Review on November 1, 2000 (more by Monthly Review)  |

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

  •    Paraguayan Sorrow   MR Online

    A radical voice in a dispossessed land (Yates interviews the translator of Paraguayan Sorrow)

    Originally published: Monthly Review on 2024 (more by Monthly Review)  |

    Rafael Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there.

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    On The Rewriting of History

    Originally published: Monthly Review on November 1982 by H. Bruce Franklin (more by Monthly Review)  | (Posted Jul 01, 2024)

    [Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.

  •    A Land With A People   MR Online

    EXCERPT: Colonial dreams, racist nightmares, liberated futures (from the introduction to ‘A Land With A People’)

    Originally published: Monthly Review on 2022 by Rosalind Petchesky (more by Monthly Review)  | (Posted Oct 19, 2023)

    …Zionism is the ideology that fuses creation of (ancient) Jewish collectivity with claims to (modern) sovereignty over land allegedly promised by God to Jews and their descendants.

  •    Isabel Crook and Harry Magdoff   MR Online

    Whither China?

    Originally published: Monthly Review on March 2021 by Isabel Crook (more by Monthly Review)  |

    An Exchange from 2002–⁠03

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  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

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    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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