Subjects Archives: History

We believe that it is not international observers, but the Chavista grassroots—the people who have sustained this revolutionary process for twenty-seven years, who buried their dead and resisted sanctions and destabilization, and who are still, slowly and stubbornly, building communes—who should carry the most weight.

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.

The General Strike exposed the power of the working class—and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY

He taught with a kind of irreverent brilliance that made you laugh, think, and question everything you thought you knew about both the economy and economics.

The Sahel’s future will not be secured by border walls, bases, or markets, but by confronting the capitalist and imperialist structures that convert climate stress into dispossession and war.

Kennedy, the CIA, and the regime embarked on a race to prepare a full-scale invasion to occupy a portion of Cuban territory where they would install those who would call themselves the Revolutionary Council.

This week in working class history.

China’s high level of investment is simply the latest stage of an international process of economic development that has been underway for over two centuries.

Given that we are twenty-five years into the revolutionary process and the bulk of the Bolivarian Revolution’s organizational achievements remain intact, we should not turn so hastily to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty for comparison.

Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

Marxist theorist and militant Chris Gilbert has been involved in the Bolivarian Revolution for two decades. In this interview, conducted on February 22, 2026, he offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region.

The official history of the United States is often presented as the exemplary story of a nation forged by the struggle for freedom and the gradual expansion of democratic rights.

With the infamous phrase ‘America for the Americans,’ President James Monroe laid out the foundations of the Monroe Doctrine.

To make sense of present developments it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.

Imperial violence was not invented by Trump. It has been an integral part of this nation’s relationships with the rest of the world from its beginning. However, Trump is more direct in saying out loud what former presidents hesitated to acknowledge, instead either keeping it hidden from public view, justifying it as self-defense, or employing subtler means of intimidation.

The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

Guano, global inequality, and the long history of shifting environmental costs from centres of power to distant and expendable regions.

Lenin stated that he became a Marxist in the rural town of Samara, south of Kazan.

On October 21, 2025, four British newspapers headlined the same story, claiming that a Cambridge study had shown that Frederick Engels was grossly mistaken on the class divisions in Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England, published in 1845.

On December 29, 2025, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) celebrated its 65th anniversary in Havana. I was part of a delegation convened by Dr. Rosemari Mealy that attended the celebration along with 240 representatives of solidarity organizations from thirty-two countries around the world. Together we defied the escalating U.S. efforts to […]