• Monthly Review
  • Monthly Review Press
  • MR (Castilian)
  • Climate & Capitalism
  • Money on the Left
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Mastadon
MR Online
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact/Submission
  • Browse
    • Recent Articles Archive
    • by Subject
      • Ecology
      • Education
      • Imperialism
      • Inequality
      • Labor
      • Literature
      • Marxism
      • Movements
      • Philosophy
      • Political Economy
    • by Region
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Australasia
      • Europe
      • Global
      • Middle East
    • by Category
      • Art
      • Commentary
      • Interview
      • Letter
      • News
      • Newswire
  • Monthly Review Essays
  • | Mobilization in Caracas December 16 2022 to Free Alex Saab Credit VTV | MR Online

    Saab hearing proves he deserves diplomatic immunity, exposes prosecution’s duplicity

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on December 16, 2022 by Daniel Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Dec 20, 2022)

    On December 12 to 13, 2022, an evidentiary hearing in the case of The United States v. Alex Saab was heard before Judge Robert Scola in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. 

  • | Mapuche protest in Chile using signs in their language defending their right to cultural independence and land recovery Credit photo Pressenza International News Agency | MR Online

    Decolonization, multipolarity, and the demise of the Monroe Doctrine

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on December 6, 2022 by William Camacaro and Frederick Mills (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Dec 08, 2022)

    December 3, 2023 marked the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine.

  • | The Nobodies Take Office in Colombia An In Depth Analysis | MR Online

    The Nobodies take Office in Colombia: an in-depth analysis

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on August 11, 2022 by Alina Duarte (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Aug 13, 2022)

    People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.

  • | Sandinista supporters in Masaya July 2022 Credit John Perry | MR Online

    Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on July 19, 2022 by John Perry (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Jul 21, 2022)

    July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.

  • | Alex Saab | MR Online

    New revelations of former U.S. Secretary of Defense confirm illegality of the extradition and arrest of diplomat Alex Saab

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on June 10, 2022 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Jun 13, 2022)

    In his new memoir, ‘Sacred Oath,’ former U.S. Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, who served under President Donald Trump at the time of the arrest of Alex Saab in Cape Verde, effectively admits that the White House was quite aware of the fact that Saab was a diplomat at the time of his capture.

  • | Energy Reforms Blocked in Mexico Sharpening Ideological Lines for 2024 Elections | MR Online

    Energy reforms blocked in Mexico, sharpening ideological lines for 2024 elections

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on May 6, 2022 by Jorge Zúñiga M. (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted May 10, 2022)

    These were no minor initiatives; they jeopardized the agendas put forth by the neoliberal administrations of the past.

  • | Nicaragua A History of US Intervention Resistance | MR Online

    New Book: ‘Nicaragua, A History of U.S. Intervention & Resistance’

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on April 7, 2022 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Apr 09, 2022)

    Ocotal is a historic Nicaraguan city located in the Department of Nueva Segovia. It is famous for being the site of battles between the U.S. Marines and the peasant guerilla forces of Augusto Cesar Sandino in the mid-1920s.

  • | Two Exemplary Twentieth Century Socialist Latin American Lives José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier | MR Online

    Two exemplary Twentieth-Century Socialist Latin American lives: José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on January 10, 2022 by Nicholas Birns (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Jan 12, 2022)

    The two books we will analyze in this essay, Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui by Juan E. De Castro, and Alan McPherson’s Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice, are very different in subject matter, discipline, and style.

  • | Social media censorship | MR Online

    Facebook does the U.S. government’s censorship work in Nicaraguan elections

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on November 3, 2021 by John Perry (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Nov 05, 2021)

    A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega.

  • | Alex Saab COHA | MR Online

    The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on October 18, 2021 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Oct 19, 2021)

    On October 16, Colombian businessman and Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab was in practical terms kidnapped for the second time, first by Cabo Verde under pressure from Washington, and now by the U.S., in flagrant violation of international law.

  • | Flickr common license httpswwwflickrcomphotoswest point48397922177inphotostream | MR Online

    175 Years of border invasions: The anniversary of the U.S. war on Mexico and the roots of northward migration

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on April 22, 2021 (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  |

    Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice versa.

  • | Behind the Racist Coup in Bolivia | MR Online

    Behind the racist coup in Bolivia

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on November 11, 2019 by Danny Shaw (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Nov 15, 2019)

    Sunday November the 10th, at approximately 4pm (eastern standard time) the democratically elected president and vice president of Bolivia, Evo Morales and Álvaro García respectively, were forced to resign from power.

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.

Lost & Found

  • Militarism and the Coming Wars
    István Mészáros | What Did You Learn from Iraq | MR Online

    The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social problems by militaristic interventions, on any scale, are obvious enough. If, however, we look more closely at the historical trend of militaristic adventures, it becomes frighteningly clear that they show an ever greater intensification and an ever-increasing scale, from local confrontations to […]

Trending

Popular (last 30 days)

RSS MR Press News

  • WATCH: The Korean Policy Institute on Izzy Stone’s classic, MRP’s first ever book June 2, 2023
  • American exceptionalism on trial (Endless Holocausts reviewed in ‘Covert Action’) June 2, 2023
  • The first war the U.S. lost: Korea, not forgotten, hidden (Tim Beal in ‘Pearls and Irritations’) June 1, 2023
  • A careful accounting of capital and resistance (Socialist Register 2023 reviewed in ‘The Bullet’) May 30, 2023
  • Cold War 2.0: The Military-Industrial Complex Survives (Washington’s New Cold War reviewed by ‘The Populist’) May 22, 2023

RSS Climate & Capitalism

  • Coverup: Industry hid dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ June 1, 2023
  • The ‘net zero’ hoax: Chevron’s fraudulent climate plan exposed May 24, 2023
  • Ecological ruin or ecological revolution? May 22, 2023
  • Global heat will hit new records in next five years May 17, 2023
  • Has the ocean heat bomb been ignited? May 13, 2023

 

RSS Monthly Review

  • June 2023 (Volume 75, Number 2) June 1, 2023 The Editors
  • Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism June 1, 2023 John Bellamy Foster
  • The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback June 1, 2023 Gabriel Rockhill
  • The Disinformation Wars: An Epistemological, Political, and Socio-Historical Interrogation June 1, 2023 Helena Sheehan
  • The Dynamics of Rural Capitalist Accumulation in Post-Land Reform Zimbabwe June 1, 2023 George T. Mudimu

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons License

Monthly Review Foundation
134 W 29TH ST STE 706
New York NY 10001-5304

Tel: 212-691-2555