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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • | Image Frederic J BrownAFP | MR Online

    ‘We need a Labor Movement that’s a lot more militant and willing to challenge the status quo’

    Originally published: Left Voice on October 4, 2022 by Left Voice (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2022)

    Joe Burns, director of collective bargaining with the CWA-AFA union, discusses his new book, “Class Struggle Unionism, and the importance of a militant labor movement.”

  • | Bread and Roses | MR Online

    We need socialist feminism. Join Bread and Roses to fight for It

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 9, 2022 by Bread and Roses (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2022)

    Join “Bread and Roses”—part of an international grouping of socialist feminists in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, France, and more who have been on the frontlines of struggles against exploitation and oppression across the world—to build the fight in our workplaces, schools, and in the streets here in the U.S. to defend our rights and fight for a future that’s ours.

  • | Marx | MR Online

    The unknown paths of the late Marx

    Originally published: Left Voice on February 27, 2022 by Josefina L. Martínez (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2022)

    An interview with Marcello Musto about the last decade of Marx’s life.

  • | Karl Marxs Writings on Alienation Edited and introduced by Marcello Musto Palgrave Macmillan 2021 p 21 | MR Online

    Revisiting Marx on Alienation and Communism

    Originally published: Left Voice on December 13, 2021 by Juan Dal Maso (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    A review of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation, edited and introduced by Marcello Musto.

  • | Marx is Back | MR Online

    Watch “Marx is Back”, Episode 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 2017 by PTS (Socialist Workers Party) (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2021)

    “Marx is Back” a mini-series about the Communist Manifesto is now on youtube. Subtitles available.

  • | Chains breaking | MR Online

    Juneteenth: A Marxist perspective

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 19, 2021 by Scott Cooper (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 24, 2021)

    This year’s commemoration of Juneteenth–the day the last of the enslaved Black people in the United States were formally emancipated–is also a reminder that the job of ending all forms of slavery is not yet finished. As Karl Marx wrote, we have nothing to lose but our chains and a world to win!

  • | Social Reproduction Feminism or Socialist Feminism | MR Online

    Social reproduction feminism or socialist feminism?

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 2021 by Josefina L. Martínez (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted May 28, 2021)

    On Susan Ferguson’s book “Women and Work: Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction.“

  • | Illustration Mar Ned Enfoque Rojo | MR Online

    Engels against reformism in Germany and France

    Originally published: Left Voice on November 28, 2020 by Doug Enaa Greene (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 04, 2020)

    Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago today. Modern reformists like to cite Engels as an authority. But until his very last day, Engels fought against reformist ideas and for revolutionary principles.

  • | Engels | MR Online

    Engels still lives at 200

    Originally published: Left Voice on November 28, 2020 by Ariane Diaz (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2020)

    Today marks 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, the revolutionary leader who, side by side with Marx, elaborated a good part of what we know today as the theoretical bases of Marxism and built the first international organizations of “insurrectionist wage slaves” who adopted communism as the name for their objective.

  • | David Graeber Photo Pier Marco Tacca | MR Online

    Remembering comrade and leftist academic David Graeber

    Originally published: Left Voice on September 3, 2020 by Meera Kumar (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2020)

    His death was sudden and a shock to his students and the scores of people influenced by his ideas. In a world where most academics value theorizing over activism and choose to abstain from public protest, Graeber was vocal about his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist views. 

  • | Image of Le Havre dock workers in France | MR Online

    More than universal healthcare: the meaning of socialism

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 29, 2018 by Doug Greene (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2018)

    Young people are turning to socialism, and Democratic Party politicians are adopting the term. But what is socialism?

  • | Image From Daily Intelligencer | MR Online

    All strikes of public sector workers are now political strikes

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 12, 2018 by Arielle Concilio (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2018)

    Arielle Concilio speaks with Marxist labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the lessons of the Teachers’ Spring and the signs of a resurgent labor movement in the U.S.

  • | AMLO celebrates the electoral triumph before thousands gathered in the central square of Mexico City last Sunday Image From CNN | MR Online

    Why did López Obrador win the Mexican Presidency?

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 4, 2018 by Jimena Vergara (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2018)

    The center-left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won by a landslide in Sunday’s elections. Why did he win by such a huge margin?

  • | Alexandria Ocasio Cortez | MR Online

    Ocasio-Cortez’s win: opportunities and challenges for the left

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 30, 2018 by Juan Cruz Ferre (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2018)

    Ocasio’s victory in the Democratic primaries is a sign of increasing openness to socialism among U.S. voters. The left may squander the opportunity revealed by her win if the wrong lessons are drawn.

  • | Boy and many other immagrants | MR Online

    Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Dystopia

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 25, 2018 by Barbara Funes and Jimena Vergara (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2018)

    What is the structural basis for Trump’s anti-immigrant dystopia? How are anti-immigrant policies rooted in US imperialist relations with Mexico?

  • | Photo Center for Border Protection repression | MR Online

    Xenophobia in America: immigrant children detention centers promote terror and fear

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 19, 2018 by Leo Zino (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2018)

    U.S. Immigration Patrol is detaining immigrant families and separating parents from their children.

  • | People walking through flooded waters Photo Hector RetamalAFPGetty Images | MR Online

    Hurricane Maria death count over 5,000–not 64, new study finds

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 30, 2018 by Juan Cruz Ferre (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2018)

    A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates the number of deaths caused directly or indirectly by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico at over five thousand.

  • | Family sitting in living room Image by Lewis Wickes Hine | MR Online

    Engels and women’s oppression

    Originally published: Left Voice on April 23, 2018 by Ariane Diaz (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2018)

    What does Engels say about the root of women’s oppression? Is there validity to his argument today?

  • | Trekbible | MR Online

    Ecological destruction in the name of science

    Originally published: Left Voice on March 23, 2017 by Michelle Munjanattu (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2018)

    How has a science focused on capital accumulation been used to overturn tried and true models of agriculture to the detriment of the environment and indigenous livelihoods?

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 […]

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