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  •    Bush   Homeland   MR Online

    How the bipartisan “War on Terror” created ICE

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 24, 2026 by Josue Cupertino (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 31, 2026)

    The Trump administration is using ICE to wage a brutal, racist war on the working class, but mainstream media is desperate to put the blame for ICE’s current murderous rampage squarely on Donald Trump.

  •    Trump Photo wallpaperflarecom   MR Online

    Western imperialists are the real drug traffickers, not Venezuela

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 2, 2026 by Jasper Saah (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 08, 2026)

    Bankers from London to New York have made a killing off the drug trade for hundreds of years. From the Opium Wars of the British Empire to the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan and interventions across Latin America—the drug trade has been a core element to Western imperialism.

  •    Horseshoe Bend Arizona December 2019   MR Online

    Corporate interests are driving Colorado River to near-collapse

    Originally published: Liberation News on December 28, 2025 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 03, 2026)

    Restructuring the agriculture system to grow crops and raise livestock that thrive in a drier climate is the first logical step to reducing water consumption.

  •    House Un American Activities Committee founder Rep Martin Dies center in 1938 Credit  Library of Congress   MR Online

    The assault on the left: Trump’s crackdown in context

    Originally published: Liberation News on November 7, 2025 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Nov 10, 2025)

    The President and his ruling party are attempting to direct a crackdown on opposition to their program under the banner of uprooting “The Left.”

  •    Breakdown Of Plastic Waste From Our Community Beach Clean   MR Online

    U.S. and oil producers block a treaty to clean the world of plastic pollution

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 18, 2025 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2025)

    The fifth session of the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations ended on Aug. 15, once again in a deadlock.

  •    La Habana Cuba 26 de Enero del 2011 Photo Motonguis  Flickr   MR Online

    Cuba’s new Code of Childhood Adolescence and Youth proves putting people over profit is possible

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 10, 2025 by Kaleigh O'Keefe (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 20, 2025)

    The Cuban National Assembly passed a new Code of Childhood, Adolescence and Youth in July.

  •    Trump visits Alligator Alcatraz on July 1   MR Online

    Florida builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to escalate Trump’s deportation war

    Originally published: Liberation News on July 10, 2025 by Harper Cummings (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2025)

    This aggressive use of public lands and services, including the use of millions of dollars in FEMA funds, was carried out not in order to respond to the real needs of Floridians, but in order to wage war on immigrants in a purposefully theatrical and cruel way.

  •    A march through downtown Minneapolis calling for justice for George Floyd on April 19 2021 during jury deliberations in the Derek Chauvin trial Credit Wikimedia Commons   MR Online

    Five years after the murder of George Floyd: The fight for Black liberation continues

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 25, 2025 by Party for Socialism and Liberation — Twin Cities (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 29, 2025)

    It has been five years since police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

  •    Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park in Tianjin one of the earliest sponge city projects in China Credit Wikimedia Commons   MR Online

    Don’t believe the New Cold War lies, China is leading the world in climate solutions

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 15, 2025 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 22, 2025)

    At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.

  •    Malcolm X   MR Online

    Malcolm X: A legacy of struggle at 100

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 19, 2025 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 21, 2025)

    One hundred years after his birth, 60 years after his assassination, Malcolm X is synonymous globally with revolutions and all forms of militant struggle by exploited and oppressed people.

  •    President Donald Trump in 2019 at the International Chiefs of Police Association meeting in Chicago Public domain   MR Online

    Trump’s executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement and expand police impunity

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 14, 2025 by Ahmed Jaber (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 16, 2025)

    In April, Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” that hands sweeping new powers to police, guts hard-won reforms and punishes cities that refuse to fall in line.

  •    New York City retirees protest attempts to priviatize their Medicare   MR Online

    Medicare Advantage: The $1.2 trillion in government waste that Trump won’t cut

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 9, 2025 by Catherine Henchek (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget calls for up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years to help fund massive tax cuts for the rich.

  •    Starbucks Drive Thru at the Maypole   MR Online

    Starbucks sued for slave labor

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 6, w0w5 by Shenby G (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    Starbucks, the largest coffee chain in the world and the 120th richest corporation in the United States, is being brought to court after being exposed for using slave labor in their coffee production chain.

  •    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB Washington DC   MR Online

    Cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aren’t about ‘efficiency,’ they are an assault on workers’ protections

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 25, 2025 by Cole Stallings (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2025)

    On April 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to approximately 1,500 of its workers—these mass layoffs represent a nearly 90% cut to the agency.

  •    Farmers working in a maize field in San Lorenzo Chiapas Mexico Credit Flickrfaoalc CC BY NC SA 20   MR Online

    The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 23, 2025 by Devorah Levy-Pearlman (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.

  •    Pregnant woman sitting on pier   MR Online

    U.S. maternal deaths rise by 27% in 5 years

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 22, 2025 by Alexia Isais (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2025)

    Recent research shows that the national average rate of maternal deaths is now 32.6 per 100,000 live births, with much higher rates seen for Indigenous mothers with 106.3 deaths, and Black mothers with 76.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively.

  •    Marco Rubio   MR Online

    Exxon, Essequibo and imperialism

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 1, 2025 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2025)

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.

  •    Stacie Pace talks about gender affirming care at her clinic Spectrum The Other Clinic in Hattiesburg Miss Friday February 3 2023 Credit Eric J Shelton Mississippi Today   MR Online

    Supreme Court could lift ban on dangerous, anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 21, 2025 by Aviva Levine (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2025)

    The case, known as ‘Chiles v. Salazar,’ argues that the ban on conversion therapy is a violation of free speech and freedom of religion.

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    Trump, white supremacy and capitalism: The enemies of Black liberation

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 31, 2025 by Liberation News Staff (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2025)

    The working class is facing a period of grave instability–faced with the challenge of managing rising prices of basic goods, stagnant or even deflated wages, and a future that is increasingly insecure in more ways than one.

  •    Then president Donald Trump meets with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2019 Meta has donated $1 million to Trumps inaugural committee Credit Flickrwhitehouse45 public domain   MR Online

    Corporations and billionaires are bankrolling Trump’s inauguration

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 15, 2025 by Morgan Artyukhina (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • 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 […]

Lost & Found

  • Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value
    Michael Parenti    A young man at a desk takes the SAT   MR Online

    Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

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