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  •  | Mural | MR Online

    I forgot to die

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on March 22, 2024 by Tithi Bhattacharya (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2024)

    Thinking through the social reproduction of Palestinian life

  •  | Burning Out of Control | MR Online

    Burning out of control: Capitalism’s climate catastrophe

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on August 31, 2023 by John Clarke (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Sep 04, 2023)

    Canada’s unprecedented wildfires drive home the harsh realities of climate change, in all their enormity. We are fighting an incorrigibly destructive social and economic system, but we are also, at the same time, engaged in a struggle for survival.

  •  | Marx  Engels | MR Online

    Renewing political Marxism

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on August 3, 2023 by Daniel Tutt (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2023)

    REVIEW OF ISABELLE GARO’S “COMMUNISM AND STRATEGY”

  •  | A REVIEW OF TWO GUIDES AGAINST EXTINCTION | MR Online

    Class struggle against growth

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on August 25, 2022 by Natalie Suzelis (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Sep 26, 2022)

    The Future is Degrowth: A Guide To a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan (Verso 2022) and Climate Change is Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso 2022) are Verso’s two most recent “guides” to combating the climate crisis.

  •  | GDM photo and video | MR Online

    Covid capitalism

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on April 23, 2020 by Gareth Dale (more by Spectre Journal)  |

    General tendencies, possible “leaps”

  •  | Red hat protest | MR Online

    Rethinking Japan’s Red Years

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on July 9, 2021 by Selim Nadi interviewing Gavin Walker (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Jul 14, 2021)

    The New Left is generally seen globally as emerging from the aftermath of the “revelations” about Stalin in Khrushchev’s “secret speech”’ at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in early 1956, and the reaction to the Soviet invasion of Hungary later that same year.

  •  | Rosa | MR Online

    Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on April 5, 2021 by Helen Scott (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2021)

    Her understanding of oppression was bolstered by personal circumstances: female in an overwhelmingly male public sphere, Jewish in a climate of vicious antisemitism, Polish at a time when Poles suffered national oppression, and an individual who lived with a disability.

  •  | Fuck Mindfulness Workshops | MR Online

    Fuck mindfulness workshops

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on March 24, 2021 (more by Spectre Journal)  |

    We need to return to the summer of BLM uprising.

  •  | Competing with Nature COVID 19 as a Capitalist Virus | MR Online

    Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a capitalist virus

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on October 16, 2020 (more by Spectre Journal)  |

    He’s turned it into a political propaganda unit to the point that it is unable to deal even with a major outbreak within our own borders. The U.S. is beginning to exhibit the features of a failed nation state.

  •  | Fighting for Black Lives at School | MR Online

    Fighting for Black Lives at school

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on September 25, 2020 (more by Spectre Journal)  |

    This is an incredibly challenging situation for teachers and the education system because we know how important in-person learning is. There’s no substitute for that online,” says Jesse Hagopian

  •  | Corona Climate Chronic Emergency War Communism in the Twenty First Century by Andreas Malm | MR Online

    A review of Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on August 1, 2020 by Garth Dale (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2020)

    What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity’s response?

  •  | Empty lower Manhattan | MR Online

    On social reproduction and the Covid-19 pandemic

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on April 3, 2020 by The Marxist Feminist Collective (more by Spectre Journal)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2020)

    “This pandemic can, and should, be a moment when the left puts forward a concrete agenda for how to support life over profit in a way that will help us move beyond capitalism.”

  •  | Lone truck on road train travels down an empty highway | MR Online

    How “just-in-time” capitalism spread COVID-19

    Originally published: Spectre Journal on April 8, 2020 (more by Spectre Journal)  |

    Capitalism has accelerated the transmission of diseases. Historically, most epidemics have spread geographically through two common forms of human long-distance movement: trade and war. The timing, however, changed dramatically with the rise of capitalism.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
    Iker Suarez  | A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal 2021 | MR Online

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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