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  • Monthly Review Essays
  •    Donald Trump and Narendra Modi during a meeting in New Delhi February 2020 Photo IMAGO  Pradeep Gaur Mint   MR Online

    Disaster Nationalism is the new fascism

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on December 6, 2024 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |

    Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.

  •    Rede von PTB Präsident Raoul Hedebouw am 1 Mai 2024 in Brüssel Belgien   MR Online

    The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on May 10, 2024 by Nico Biver (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted May 22, 2024)

    European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore, expect similar results in both sets of polls.

  •    climate   MR Online

    Reflections on the crisis of the political subject in a warming planet

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on March 27, 2024 by Camila Barragán (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2024)

    Just as unprecedented peak temperatures were being recorded in several cities around the world, organized communities in Latin America were mobilizing against extractivism, as well as in favour of environmental protection and the right to protest in its defence.

  •    Athletes march in a parade dedicated to the sixty third anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution 7 November 1989 The banner reads Let the name and exploits of the great Lenin live for centuries Photo IMAGO  ITAR TASS   MR Online

    Seven reasons not to leave Lenin to our enemies

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 21, 2024 by Michael Brie (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history—both the Stalinists and their liberal opponents.

  •    The Dakar Declaration   MR Online

    The Dakar Declaration

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on December 15, 2022 by African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty Initiative (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2023)

    Adopted in October 2022 at the Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal.

  •    Anti colonial protest statue of King Lepold II in Brussels June 2020   MR Online

    Anticolonialism

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on February 2022 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |

    A. is based on recognition of the right of all peoples to dispose of an independent state.

  •    Perhaps the most well known edition of Capital the three blue volumes of the Marx Engels Werke issued by Karl Dietz Verlag in Berlin Photo FlickrAchim vom Tal   MR Online

    ‘Das Kapital’ in Kiswahili

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 2022 by Joachim Mwami and Loren Balhorn (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Jan 28, 2022)

    Joachim Mwami on translating Marx—and Marxism—into the vocabulary of East Africa

  •    Members of the Talat movement protest in Haifa 2019   MR Online

    Feminist protests in Palestine

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on August 3, 2021 by Fidaa Al Zaanin (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    Mapping the fight for women’s liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

  •    Statue of Karl Marx   MR Online

    K is for Karl (Episode 4)

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on May 7, 2018 by Paul Mason (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted May 08, 2018)

    In the fourth episode of K is for Karl, Paul Mason travels to Manchester, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Here, Mason shows us how the use of human labour and the development of machinery brought about contemporary capitalism.

  •    Cape Town Water   MR Online

    Notes from the future

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on March 8, 2018 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2018)

    What’s happening in Cape Town now might soon happen to many places in the world. To prevent socio-ecological crises like this we need to manage our resources more rationally and collectively.

  •    MLK Blvd and Malcom X Blvd   MR Online

    Bill Fletcher Jr. on Black Marxism

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 11, 2018 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |

    Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher jr. talks about how capitalism is based on the slave trade and colonialism, the Black contribution to Marxism, and the need to organize.

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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