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  • | Liyah Mitchell in Kokomo City a Magnolia Pictures release Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures | MR Online

    ‘Kokomo City’ review: An unfiltered look into the lives of Black trans women sex workers

    Originally published: People's World on August 11, 2023 by Chauncey K. Robinson (more by People's World)  | (Posted Aug 18, 2023)

    The new documentary Kokomo City is a raw and unfiltered look into the lives of Black trans women sex workers. In a time when legislative persecution of those belonging to the LGBTQ community is running rampant in a number of states, the film arrives unapologetically, daring viewers to hear the truths of its subjects.

  • | The Supreme Court has ruled against Teamsters Local 174 the union whose workers were sued by their employer Glacier Northwest for allegedly causing intentional damage to the companys cement trucks during a strike | Background photo Joe Mabel CC BY SA 30 Wikimedia Commons Collage by Peoples World | MR Online

    In a historic step backwards, the U.S. limits the right to strike

    Originally published: People's World on June 2, 2023 by Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2023)

    The Supreme Court ruled against the Teamsters, opening the door to unions being sued for ‘damages’ to a company during–or due to–strike action, report MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK

  • | A reading in Berlin with Brigitte Reimann and Walter Lewerenz 1966 German Federal Archives licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 30 Germany license | MR Online

    ‘Siblings’: An East German novella reminds us of what had once been possible

    Originally published: People's World on March 6, 2023 by Jenny Farrell (more by People's World)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2023)

    Brigitte Reimann’s Siblings has just been published in English translation by Penguin in its series of classic international literature. It comes 60 years after the original German novella appeared. The translator is Lucy Jones.

  • | In this March 27 2020 file photo William Samuels delivers caskets to the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home during the coronavirus pandemic in the Queens borough of New York New data finds that life expectancy in the United States has dropped significantly over the past few years It is clear that racial minorities suffered the biggest impact but census information ignores the role of socioeconomic class | Mark Lennihan AP | MR Online

    Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class

    Originally published: People's World on September 28, 2022 (more by People's World)  |

    Mainstream media takes on the bad news on life expectancy barely mention international comparisons — notably ignoring China and Cuba — and neglect the political and economic context of the drop, writes WT WHITNEY Jr.

  • | Sahra Wagenknecht speaks at a conference in 2017 | Die Linke | MR Online

    Sahra Wagenknecht, Die Linke member of Bundestag: Russia sanctions causing ’social and economic catastrophe’ in Germany

    Originally published: People's World on September 12, 2022 by Combined Sources (more by People's World)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2022)

    Former Die Linke co-chair Sahra Wagenknecht, among the German Left Party’s most famous politicians, has accused the government of causing a “social and economic catastrophe” through its sanctions on Russia.

  • | Steven Senne AP | MR Online

    Climate change has long prompted migration, now it may drive anti-capitalist consciousness, too

    Originally published: People's World on August 11, 2022 (more by People's World)  |

    U.S. government programs for migrants who cross the country’s southern border are punitive and disjointed.

  • | Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint 1819 Public Domain | MR Online

    On the bicentennial of Shelley’s death: evolution of a working-class poet

    Originally published: People's World on July 12, 2022 by Jenny Farrell (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jul 18, 2022)

    Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty.

  • | Climate protest strike | MR Online

    Climate research strike? Linking up environmental science with the ‘science of society’

    Originally published: People's World on March 16, 2022 (more by People's World)  |

    Hundreds of IPCC scientists provide the United Nations periodically with reports on adverse impacts of climate change. The most recent report, issued in February, details rising seas, terrible droughts, atypical weather events, thawing permafrost, dying forests, and massive displacement of populations.

  • | Viral propaganda In the social media age the US anti Cuba efforts have to keep up with the way people get their information and disinformation Here protesters in Key West Fla use their phones to photograph and video a flag reading SOS Cuba from atop the Southernmost Point buoy July 13 2021 | Rob ONealThe Key West Citizen via AP | MR Online

    U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba

    Originally published: People's World on January 25, 2022 (more by People's World)  |

    The cruder U.S. methods for destroying Cuba’s revolutionary government—military attacks, bombings of hotels and a fully-loaded airplane, violent attacks on officials, biological warfare—did not work. Nor has economic blockade, which of course continues. A more subtle approach also exists. Like the blockade, its purpose is to cause despair and then dissent.

  • | bell hooks | MR Online

    bell hooks changed how we think about Black femininity, class, and capitalism

    Originally published: People's World on December 17, 2021 by Chauncey K. Robinson (more by People's World)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2021)

    The world lost a trailblazing thinker and feminist this week. Professor and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, passed away at the age of 69.

  • | Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly theoretical pillars This is the role played by Mark R Levin whose newest tome American Marxism provides squawking points for the radically neo fascist lumpen Republican Party | MR Online

    Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s new book ‘American Marxism’

    Originally published: People's World on October 20, 2021 by Matthew F. Bokovoy (more by People's World)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2021)

    Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars.

  • | Demonstrators sit on the ground in front of the White House April 29 2017 during a demonstration and march Thousands gathered across the country to march in protest of President Trumps environmental policies which have included rolling back restrictions on mining oil drilling and greenhouse gas emissions at coal fired power plants| Pablo Martinez Monsivais AP | MR Online

    Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism

    Originally published: People's World on November 14, 2019 (more by People's World)  |

    It’s bad enough to imagine blame and scenarios of dread, as if from science fiction, but add in the presently feeble response to dire threats and we’re in a funk. If tools were available, we’d get a lift. Marc Brodine’s book Green Strategy, reviewed here, is about tools.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen | | MR Online

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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