• Monthly Review
  • Monthly Review Press
  • MR (Castilian)
  • Climate & Capitalism
  • Money on the Left
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
MR Online
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact/Submission
  • Browse
    • Recent Articles Archive
    • by Subject
      • Ecology
      • Education
      • Imperialism
      • Inequality
      • Labor
      • Literature
      • Marxism
      • Movements
      • Philosophy
      • Political Economy
    • by Region
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Australasia
      • Europe
      • Global
      • Middle East
    • by Category
      • Art
      • Commentary
      • Interview
      • Letter
      • News
      • Newswire
  • Monthly Review Essays
  • | © AP Photo Patrick Semansky | MR Online

    Chinese paper calls for probe of U.S.’ Fort Detrick biolab amid Wuhan Lab COVID-19 origins fracas

    Originally published: Sputnik News on May 26, 2021 by Morgan Artyukhina (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted May 29, 2021)

    Chinese scientists sequenced the genome of SARS-CoV-2 in early January 2020 and by March of that year had “irrefutably” concluded the virus was not of human design. Since then, the goalposts have shifted repeatedly in an attempt to keep laboratory escape a viable theory, despite no evidence to support the continued supposition.

  • | © REUTERS HENRY NICHOLLS | MR Online

    Our economic system fuels outbreaks, says Evolutionary Epidemiologist who predicted the pandemic

    Originally published: Sputnik News on May 14, 2020 by Mohammed Elmaazi (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted May 20, 2020)

    Mass deforestation, industrialised animal agriculture and reductions in biodiversity are among a number of factors which increase the likelihood of the emergence and spread of dangerous pathogens such as the coronavirus disease 2019, explains scientist Dr Rob Wallace in an exclusive interview with Sputnik.

  • | A Little Help From Their Friends How Vietnam Withstood Largest Bombing Campaign in Human History © AP Photo Associated Press | MR Online

    A little help from their friends: How Vietnam withstood largest bombing campaign in human history

    Originally published: Sputnik News on (updated) March 3, 2020 by Ilya Tsukanov (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted Mar 04, 2020)

    Between 1965 the 1975, the United States Air Force dropped over three times more bombs on the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia than the total tonnage dropped by the Allies during World War II.

  • | Hubris Before the Fall © AFP 2019 JORGE GUERRERO | MR Online

    Hubris before the fall

    Originally published: Sputnik News on July 20, 2019 by Finian Cunningham (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2019)

    Hubris is usually a forewarning of impending calamity. Extreme arrogance blinds the hubristic person to the limits of their power. So, blindly, they push on with reckless excess, leading to potentially disastrous results.

  • | | MR Online

    Oil, Neocons, Monroe Doctrine: author explains origins of Trump’s Venezuela plan

    Originally published: Sputnik News on February 1, 2019 by Ekaterina Blinova (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2019)

    The U.S. has revitalised its old Monroe Doctrine, seeking to take Latin America countries and most notably Venezuela, famous for its rich oil reserves, under control, French journalist Gilbert Mercier has told Sputnik, explaining why the “overt coup attempt” in Caracas is doomed to failure.

  • | Why Russia Is Growing Gold Reserves to Record Levels | MR Online

    Why Russia is growing gold reserves to record levels

    Originally published: Sputnik News on July 25, 2018 (more by Sputnik News)  | (Posted Aug 01, 2018)

    According to Russian Central Bank figures, Russia’s total gold reserves amounted to 1,944 tons as of June 2018, with the regulator pointing to a steady rise in holdings of the precious metal over the last decade (total gold reserves amounted to less than 500 tons in 2008). In the same period, the share of gold in Russia’s total reserves grew from just 2.5 percent to over 17 percent.

Monthly Review Essays

  • From Commodity Fetishism to Teleological Positing: Lukács’s Concept of Labor and Its Relevance
    Wang Pu | Historia y conciencia de clase y el marxismo de Georg Lukács Dialektika | MR Online

    The concept of labor constituted a pivotal problematic in Georg Lukács’s theoretical development throughout his Marxist years.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

Trending

Popular (last 30 days)

RSS MR Press News

  • “The Return of Nature” wins ASA’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award August 11, 2022
  • Grappling with ‘Capital’s’ entirety: Not just for first-time readers (Heinrich reviewed by ‘Marx & Philosophy Review of Books’) August 10, 2022
  • Work work work – so a few can be rich (Yates published in “Counterpunch”) August 9, 2022
  • Rescuing Marx, and Marxism… (‘The Return of Nature’ reviewed by “Theory & Struggle”) August 1, 2022
  • WATCH “MR Conversations: Work Work Work,” with Michael Yates and Intan Suwandi (Plus: EXCERPTS) August 1, 2022

RSS Climate & Capitalism

  • Global hunger numbers jump; 2.3 billion are ‘food insecure’ August 9, 2022
  • U.S. has the warmest nights ever August 9, 2022
  • Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods August 5, 2022
  • Capitalism’s crimes against nature July 24, 2022
  • Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2022 July 11, 2022

RSS Monthly Review

  • July-August 2022 (Volume 74, Number 3) July 1, 2022 The Editors
  • Socialism and Ecological Survival: An Introduction July 1, 2022 John Bellamy Foster
  • The Limits to Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism July 1, 2022 Alberto Garzón Espinosa
  • Surviving Through Community Building in Catastrophic Times July 1, 2022 Sit Tsui
  • Climate Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century July 1, 2022 Jayati Ghosh

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons License

Monthly Review Foundation
134 W 29TH ST STE 706
New York NY 10001-5304

Tel: 212-691-2555