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  •    Image Clemens Vasters Flickr   MR Online

    737 Max 9 blowout: Boeing gambles with human lives for profit

    Originally published: Socialist Revolution on February 28, 2024 by Chase B. (more by Socialist Revolution)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2024)

    On January 6, 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft were grounded after a door plug blew from one of the planes’ fuselages over Oregon during an Alaska Airlines flight.

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    United States: Activision workers walk out against sexist oppression

    Originally published: Socialist Revolution on August 4, 2021 by Mark O. and J. Deters (more by Socialist Revolution)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2021)

    For years, a toxic culture of rampant sexism has permeated Activision Blizzard, the video game development company behind titles including World of Warcraft and Call of Duty.

  •    Californias Megadrought and the Fight for Socialism Ben Amstutz via Flickr   MR Online

    California’s megadrought and the fight for socialism

    Originally published: Socialist Revolution on May 18, 2021 by Jake Thorp (more by Socialist Revolution)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2021)

    The history of California in the capitalist era is as mythic as the American Dream itself. From around the world, countless workers have emigrated to the “Golden State” in search of a better life.

  •    Image Andrés Gómez Tarazona via Flickr   MR Online

    David Harvey against Revolution: the Bankruptcy of Academic “Marxism”

    Originally published: Socialist Revolution on June 25, 2020 (more by Socialist Revolution)  |

    David Harvey is a university professor and a geographer who describes himself as a Marxist. His series of video lectures on Capital have been viewed by hundreds of thousands as a new generation of young people became interested in Marxism in the wake of the 2008 crisis. For these reasons, his recent statement that he is against the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism has logically caused a stir.

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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