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  • ZINNFUL THINKING: Slogan of the Occupy movement, Oakland, 2011 [Pic: Mercurywoodrose]

    A People’s History of Howard Zinn

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on August 13, 2026 by Ron Jacobs (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Aug 15, 2026)

    RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography.

  • Planet Earth pic by Kevin M Gill

    Is nature dialectical?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on July 18, 2026 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

  • TARGETED: Malawian migrants stand in a queue for their deportation at a temporary centre, in South Africa

    South Africa: Communists reject xenophobia and vigilantism

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on June 28, 2026 by Morning Star Online Staff (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2026)

    The statement from the South African Communist Party (SACP) came ahead of a deadline set by vigilante groups for African migrants to leave the country by June 30 2026.

  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Lady Victoria Starmer on the steps of 10 Downing Street, London, after his speech where he said he will resign as leader of the Labour Party and he has informed the King of his decision, June 22, 2026

    Keir Starmer: A political obituary

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on June 22, 2026 by Andrew Murray (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 24, 2026)

    ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes.

  • Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth leads efforts to usher in a new age of US terror in Latin America

    “We are hunting you down like we hunted al-Qaida”: Pentagon chief announces Latin America as the focus of the new War on Terror

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on June 19, 2026 by Sara Vivacqua (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2026)

    Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports.

  • OUTBREAK: Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visits health workers at the Evangelical Medical Centre (CEM) in Bunia, DR Congo

    Congo’s deadly perfect storm

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on June 1, 2026 by Rober McKenzie (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2026)

    ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation.

  • Palestinians offer Eid al-Adha prayers beside the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 27, 2026

    A forensic survey of Israel’s genocide

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 28, 2026 by Jamie Britton (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2026)

    JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip.

  • NOT NATURALLY BLONDE: (L) A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in 1944 at the Radioplane Company; (R) Monroe posing with actors from Luis Bunuel's film The Exterminating Angel (1962) during her trip to Mexico [Pic: David Conover/CC; Public Domain]

    ‘A clear-minded, if taciturn, Marxist’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 29, 2026 by John Green (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2026)

    On the centenary of her birth, JOHN GREEN celebrates the life—and politics—of Marilyn Monroe.

  • Demonstrators take part in a rally in London, on the last day of Extinction Rebellion's four days of action that they have called "The Big One", April 24, 2023

    What is political ecology?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 25, 2026 by Full Marx (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 28, 2026)

    Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

  • President Donald Trump speaks at Rockland Community College, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y.

    Spitting on the graves of black civil rights martyrs

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 25, 2026 by Linda Pentz Gunter (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 27, 2026)

    The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER.

  • FADING POPULARITY: Philosopher Slavoj Zizek has adopted pro-Nato positions. Photo: Andy Miah/Creative Commons

    What is (or was) ‘Western Marxism’?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 11, 2026 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in–and acceptable to–the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

  • South Africans protest against illegal migration, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 29, 2026

    Xenophobia rears its ugly head on South Africa’s streets

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 12, 2026 by Roger McKenzie (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 13, 2026)

    Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE.

  • Rima Hassan

    Rima Hassan: the French-Palestinian MEP the Establishment wants to crush

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 9, 2026 by Christophe Domec (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 12, 2026)

    CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities.

  • Broadcasting the news, during the General Strike of 1926, at a Government centre for the maintenance of essential services, May 1926

    The 1926 General Strike: revolutionary potential, reformist betrayal, and the lessons for today

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 4, 2026 by Dylan Murphy (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 07, 2026)

    The General Strike exposed the power of the working class—and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY

  • Left to right: Daniel Tatlow-Devally, Zo Hailu, Crow Tricks, Vi Kovarbasic and Leandra Rollo

    Trial against five pro-Palestinian activists in Germany is latest ‘crackdown on those who refuse to be bystanders to genocide’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 27, 2026 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2026)

    Prosecutors say that the five broke into Elbit Systems’ premises early on September 8 2025, and caused an estimated €200,000 (£173K) worth of damage to the arms manufacturer by smashing up office equipment with axes.

  • President Donald Trump (left) gets a reaction from Britian's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson (right), in the Oval Office of the White House, May 8, 2025, in Washington

    Look beyond Mandelson: Trump, and the U.S. alliance, are the bigger picture

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 22, 2026 by Morning Star Online Staff (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2026)

    The government is a busted flush.

  • origins

    Is Engels’ The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Human still relevant today?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 13, 2026 by Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2026)

    Engels’ essay on our origins and distinctiveness built on Darwin’s own exploration of human evolution and has provided a framework for exploration and research which has stood the test of time, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

  • Women wave Cuban flags during a rally calling for the end of the US blockade against the island nation in Havana, Cuba, April 7, 2026

    China and Cuba’s solar revolution: solidarity in practice

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 11, 2026 by Carlos Martinez (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 14, 2026)

    CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade.

  • Dialectical materialism

    Can dialectics explain the world?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on November 2000 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Dialectical materialism is best seen as a valuable heuristic—a practical approach to problem solving, analysis and investigation, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

  • THE POWER OF PROTEST: Fredrik Gertten's Breaking Social [Pic: IMDb]

    The filthy rich, and what to do about them

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 5, 2026 by Andy Hedgecock (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2026)

    ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends an unflinching analysis of the billionaire class that celebrates collective resistance to it.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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