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  • Illustration by Luis Cuervo

    Science and Synthesis: Does late capitalism constrain the systemic thinking required by science?

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 27, no. 2, Political Economy of Science (more by Science for the People)  |

    Do sciences, such as ecology and epidemiology, demand an integral philosophy?

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    The role of Indigenous women in enhancing food security and protecting ecosystems

    Originally published: Science for the People on December 25, 2025 by Jecinta Pierra Nyaruai (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Feb 03, 2026)

    As many parts of East Africa enter the traditional first rain season of the year, farmers are expressing uncertainty, especially after the flooding that hit Kenya in April 2024.

  • Imagined sourced from author

    Tough on Institutions, not Individuals: Resisting Militarism in Engineering Schools

    Originally published: Science for the People on Vol 26, No 3: Palestine by Anonymous (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted May 01, 2025)

    The scale and pace of the genocide in Gaza is accelerated by the direct and indirect contributions of American universities.

  • The manufacture of the al-Ghoul sniper rifle (bottom), via Bilibili military analyst 黑猫星球 (Black Cat Planet)

    Smashing walls, building firewalls, and breaking the digital siege

    Originally published: Science for the People on Vol. 26, no. 3 by Charles Xu (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2025)

    On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.

  • Old contradictions and new possibilities in Marxist and Indigenous praxis

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 26, no. 2: Ways of Knowing by Kavita Philip and Sigrid Schmalzer  (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Dec 12, 2024)

    At the 2017 March for Science in Washington, DC , Dr. Lydia Jennings wore a T-shirt that read, “Strong Resilient Indigenous,” and held a sign saying, “Traditional Ecological Knowledge Is Science Too!”

  • Student encampment at UC Berkeley in summer 2024 (photo by O.E.)

    The struggle for University divestment in the age of finance capital

    Originally published: Science for the People on October 16, 2024 by G. W. Castro (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2024)

    The boundaries that separate higher education from “the rest” of the capitalist economy have eroded, imperfectly and unevenly but to a sufficient extent that the systemic force of financial markets dictates investment decisions and makes universities hard to distinguish from banks.

  • Artwork by Dio Cramer

    The invention of the “true transsexual”

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 26, no. 1, Gender: Beyond Binaries; 2024 by Madeline Stump (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 16, 2024)

    The following text navigates through the trans health articles and books published between 1886 and 1966 which appear to have had the greatest influence on the writing of “The Transsexual Phenomenon”, ultimately posing the question: how did we get here?

  • Some of the members of the Akwesasne 8 along with Indigenous supporters from outside of the community. (Photo by Akwesasne community member Demetri Lafrance)

    Land back at Barnhart

    Originally published: Science for the People on June 25, 2024 by Jennifer Lee (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 27, 2024)

    Contextualizing the Re-occupation of Barnhart Island in Shared Legacies of Struggle.

  • Akwesasne

    Akwesasne and the history of hydropower

    Originally published: Science for the People on March 9, 2024 by Marina Johnson-Zafiris and André Luiz de Oliveira Domingues (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2024)

    Hydropower has long been heralded as “clean,” “green” energy. Yet living in Akwesasne, just a few kilometers away from the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, it seems that almost every one of its approximately 13,000 residents is either sick or has a family member that is sick.

  • Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, an Israeli nuclear installation southeast of the city of Dimona. (Wikimedia Commons)

    A mirror of our immediate future

    Originally published: Science for the People on April 8, 2024 by Erica Jung and Calvin Wu (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2024)

    On Green Imperialism and Palestine.

  • Pamela Parker

    Sequencing Revolt: How Grandmothers Fought the Argentinian Military Dictatorship and Revolutionized Science

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 26, no. 1 (Autumn 2023) - Gender: Beyond Binaries (more by Science for the People)  |

    The dictatorship in Argentina—one of the cruelest and bloodiest in the region—was in full swing. Among the thirty thousand disappeared by the state were an estimated five hundred babies and children, either taken along with their parents or born in the camps under brutal, inhumane conditions. Their grandmothers would do anything to find them.

  • Panel Discussion at Socialism 2023

    Degrowth and ecosocialist revolution

    Originally published: Science for the People on September 8, 2023 by Erica Jung and Güney Işıkara (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2023)

    It is becoming increasingly clear that humanity cannot resolve the anthropogenic ecological crises without radically restructuring our social relations—a consensus shared by the degrowth movement and revolutionary socialism. Panel Discussion at Socialism 2023

  • Team leader Trinh Thi Hong Tham briefs her team members when responding to a UXO emergency call (photo by Hien Ngo).

    Healing the wounds of War in Vietnam

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by Trude Bennett (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 10, 2023)

    From 1964 to 1973, the United States released 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance in Indochina, far greater than the combined amount during the Second World War and the Korean War.

  • Seena Mavaddat

    Lie, cheat, and steal: The CIA’s disastrous scientific legacy

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by Owen Marshall (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2023)

    Under the leadership of noted black site torture overseer Gina Haspel, it has also adopted a tech start-up model via its new “CIA Labs,” which entices would-be innovators with lucrative patent opportunities.

  • Jigyasa Mishra

    Science and imperialism: Scientists as workers for peace

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by Archishman Raju (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2023)

    Imperialism and militarism have always disguised and justified themselves as the defense of freedom.

  • Mid-Atlantic members of the Black Alliance for Peace at a picket line action at Howard University, October 2022. (@Blacks4Peace)

    Resisting AFRICOM and beyond

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by T.A. Tran and Leanne Loo (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2023)

    An Interview with Rose Brewer of Black Alliance for Peace.

  • Connie Resch

    The U.S. Navy and climate change

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by Neta C. Crawford (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2023)

    If one were only to read the headlines over the last two years, it might seem as if the U.S. military is late to the problem of climate change. However, as a large emitter of greenhouse gasses (51 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents in 2019 alone), the U.S. military has been researching, anticipating, and planning for the effects of climate change for decades.

  • Drone Wars (Photo: Sophia Zhao)

    Killing in the name of precision

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, 'Killing in the Name Of' by Hamid Ekbia (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2023)

    The Technoscientific Origins of Drone Warfare.

  • Rural health care in Cuba (Photo by Carol Foil, 2009).

    The U.S. blockade and its effects on Cuban medicine

    Originally published: Science for the People on March 6, 2023 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Mar 16, 2023)

    The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.

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    How degrowth can help reduce global conflict

    Originally published: Science for the People on February 21, 2023 by Andrew Ahern (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2023)

    Defined as an equitable and democratic reduction of energy and material throughput targeted at rich nations and the globally wealthy, degrowth has grown in popularity over the last few years with growing political support.

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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

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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