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  • | Strip mined land being recontoured by coal companies Morristown Ohio 1974 Photo Erik Calonius via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    In defence of Metabolic Rift Theory

    Originally published: Verso Books on March 16, 2018 (more by Verso Books)  |

    One Marxist line of inquiry into environmental problems has outshone all others in creativity and productivity: the theory of the metabolic rift.

  • | William Morris | MR Online

    William Morris’s anti-imperialism

    Originally published: Verso Books on November 5, 2020 by Peter Halton (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2020)

    William Morris is today remembered mainly for his designs. But, during his life he was one a prolific political journalist and socialist activist. Here, Peter Halton argues for the enduring relevance of his anti-imperialist writings.

  • | A Matter of Life and Death What war and the pandemic have in common | MR Online

    A matter of life and death: What war and the pandemic have in common

    Originally published: Verso Books on August 14, 2020 (more by Verso Books)  |

    Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media’s coverage of age of endless war.

  • | JeanPaul Sartre | MR Online

    Happy Birthday: Critique of Dialectical Reason!

    Originally published: Verso Books on August 4, 2020 by Robert Boncardo (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2020)

    On the 60th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s key text on Marxism, Robert Boncardo shows us why it is still relevant, and urgently needed, today.

  • | Karl Marx sticker on wall | MR Online

    Teaching Marx in a pandemic

    Originally published: Verso Books on May 22, 2020 by Barnaby Raine (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted May 28, 2020)

    Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season

  • | Read Rosa | MR Online

    “Absolute freedom of critique and discussion lies at the heart of the interests of the workers’ movement, and it must be pursued at all costs.”

    Originally published: Verso Books on March 4, 2020 by Rosa Luxemburg (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2020)

    On Rosa Luxemburg’s birthday, we present an extract from her 1906 essay “Critique in the Workers’ Movement,” available in English for the first time.

  • | Grévolution first round of a general strike | MR Online

    ‘Grévolution’: first round of a general strike

    Originally published: Verso Books on January 9, 2020 by Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2020)

    Since the middle of December, France has been gripped by a wave of large scale strikes. In this article the French collective Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes analyses the composition of the strikes, and the potential for its continued escalation.

  • | Fossil Capital | MR Online

    It is time to try out an “ecological Leninism” – Interview with Andreas Malm

    Originally published: Verso Books on October 7, 2019 (more by Verso Books)  |

    Andreas Malm interviewed about Marxist approaches to the climate movement.

  • | Dentention camps | MR Online

    Detention camps are concentration camps

    Originally published: Verso Books on August 7, 2019 by Todd Miller (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Aug 13, 2019)

    In June it was finally settled, the short-term detention centers run by the U.S. Border Patrol were—quite technically—concentration camps. While they are not the extermination camps of the Holocaust, the rounding up and mass incarceration of people who haven’t seen a judge fits the definition exactly, according to expert Andrea Pitzer. The legal definition of concentration camps are “places of forced relocation of civilians into detention on the basis of group identity.”

  • | Frantz Fanon Against Facebook How to Decolonize Your DigitalMind | MR Online

    Frantz Fanon against Facebook: how to decolonize your digital-mind

    Originally published: Verso Books on July 8, 2019 by Lizzie O'Shea (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Jul 11, 2019)

    From the Algeria to algorithms, Lizzie O’Shea argues that Frantz Fanon’s ideas have much to offer us as we seek to understand, and resist, some of the most profound challenges of living in the digital age.

  • | Capitalist Democratic State | MR Online

    Seven theses on the Capitalist Democratic State

    Originally published: Verso Books on April 30, 2019 by Michael A. McCarthy (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted May 09, 2019)

    What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? This question has bedevilled the left for generations. On the one hand, a social democratic conception of the state as a neutral institution that needs to be occupied and captured by bureaucrats with the right ideas has lead to experiments in socialist governance that have failed to overcome the private power of capitalists and turned toward neoliberal reversals

  • | Hexenverbrennung zu Dernburg im Jahre 1555 zeitgenˆssischer Stich Der Hexenwahn in Europa erreichte vor 400 Jahren einen traurigen Hˆhepunkt Ganze Dorfgemeinschaften zerfielen auf dem Scheiterhaufen bestialische Foltern zur Erzwingung von Gestndnissen gerieten zur Kunstform und die Erdrosselung vor dem Tod galt noch als eine grofle Gnade Zu dpa lhe und lrs 001 vom 31101995 | MR Online

    Gossip girls

    Originally published: Verso Books on April 2, 2019 by Emily Janakiram (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2019)

    In her landmark Caliban and the Witch, Marxist scholar Silvia Federici argues that witch hunts were an organized campaign of mass murder of women–particularly low-class women, midwives, or “wise women”–who defied the increasing implementation of a patriarchal, authoritarian order under a rapidly developing capitalist state.

  • | Rosa Luxemburg | MR Online

    On January 15, 1919: Rosa Luxemburg was murdered

    Originally published: Verso Books on January 16, 2018 (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2018)

    The great revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by Freikorp in Berlin, and her body thrown into the Landwehr Canal on this day in 1919.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor | Cuban Flag Museum of the Revolution Havana Cuba 2012 | MR Online

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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 […]

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