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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Labor activists listen to speeches at a rally outside of Delaney Hall immigrant jail. The Father's Day rally was organized by Labor Eyes on ICE on June 21, 2026. PHOTO COURTESY OF GEOFF JOHNSON

    Union activists are building solidarity with Delaney Hall hunger strikers

    Originally published: Truthout on June 23, 2026 by Shireen Akram-Boshar (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Jun 27, 2026)

    Sunday’s rally came after months of labor solidarity efforts with detainees, who continue to face retaliation.

  • President Donald Trump (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

    Trump issues sanctions on Iran, threatens to “obliterate” it if he’s killed

    Originally published: Truthout on February 6, 2025 by Sharon Zhang (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2025)

    Trump has signed an executive order to exert pressure on Iran while also trying to obtain a nuclear deal.

  • Luigi Mangione, the suspect indicted in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is seen arriving at the South Street Helipad in New York City on December 19, 2024, after being extradited from Pennsylvania. XNY / STAR MAX / GC IMAGES

    Luigi Mangione’s indictment is another example of the dangers of terror charges

    Originally published: Truthout on December 21, 2024 by Schuyler Mitchell (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Dec 30, 2024)

    The indictment comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block “critical infrastructure.”

  • Health care advocates risk arrest protesting care denials at UnitedHealthcare on July 15, 2024, in Minnetonka, Minnesota. DAVID BERDING / GETTY IMAGES FOR PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE

    Behind UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is a larger system of Corporate rule

    Originally published: Truthout on December 12, 2024 by Derek Seidman (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2024)

    The violence of for-profit health care’s megastructure can only be overcome through collective resistance campaigns.

  • Avis Lee holds a banner for Let's Get Free, the Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee which helped with her fight for freedom and with which she now organizes to free others.

    “To be free is to free others”: Formerly incarcerated women urge decarceration

    Originally published: Truthout on May 5, 2024 by Victoria Law (more by Truthout)  | (Posted May 07, 2024)

    The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.

  • Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin (FCI Dublin) is photographed in Dublin, California, on September 13, 2014. ANDA CHU / MEDIANEWS GROUP/THE MERCURY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAGES

    Prison notorious for rape is slated for closure but not releasing survivors

    Originally published: Truthout on April 16, 2024 by Victoria Law (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2024)

    The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.

  • Chris Smalls, a leader of the Amazon Labor Union, leads a march of Starbucks and Amazon workers and their allies to the homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day, September 5, 2022, in New York City, New York. ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN / CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES / Truthout

    Union organizing surged in 2022: Let’s push for a radical labor movement in 2023

    Originally published: Truthout on December 29, 2022 (more by Truthout)  |

    More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.

  • Protesters gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on December 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

    Unapologetic support for abortion rights must be a pillar of the Left

    Originally published: Truthout on December 6, 2021 by Emily Janakiram, Camila Valle, Christine Pardue and Hennessy Garcia (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2021)

    This week the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization–the case that will determine the fate of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, and more broadly, the fate of Roe v. Wade.

  • Naisha Wright, Daunte Wright's aunt, shows pictures of a Glock 17 and a Taser X26P during a press conference at New Salem Missionary Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 15, 2021.

    The Supreme Court is also to blame for Daunte Wright’s death

    Originally published: Truthout on April 16, 2021 (more by Truthout)  |

    When veteran Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter, who is white, stopped Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for an expired registration tag, she committed an act of racial profiling.

  • U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and US Senator Ed Markey (R), Democrat of Massachusetts

    A Green New Deal is the first step toward an eco-revolution

    Originally published: Truthout on February 9, 2019 (more by Truthout)  |

    In this interview, Foster discusses why a Green New Deal is just an entry point to an ecological revolution, and why any economic-social system that hopes to address the climate crisis must transcend capitalism.

  • Deforestation on the geotrail of Makhonjwa Mountains near Barberton, Mpumalanga on July 3, 2018. WIKUS DE WET : AFP : GETTY IMAGES

    Climate change is the product of how capitalism “values” nature

    Originally published: Truthout on November 18, 2018 (more by Truthout)  |

    Capitalist industrialization has led us to the edge of the precipice of climate change, and avoiding the end of civilization as we know it may require the development of a view in direct opposition to the way in which capitalism “values” nature, according to John Bellamy Foster.

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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