Subjects Archives: History

The year 2026 marks the eighty-third anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle was not merely a decisive military engagement in the Second World War, but a historical rupture that reshaped the trajectory of the 20th century. Fought between August 1942 and February 1943, it marked the first total strategic defeat of Nazi Germany […]

Philadelphia officials have filed a lawsuit after a slavery-focused exhibition was removed from a historic site, accusing the Trump administration of attempting to sanitize U.S. history ahead of key national commemorations.

The Council on Foreign Relations shrinks the political imagination of learners and deploys the interests of the elite among an increasingly precarious American populace.

Part of the U.S. empire’s strategy in this information war is to erase the Chinese people’s major contribution to the defeat of fascism and imperialism in WWII.

Hoel Le Moal: Marx seems to have been obsessed with the question of communal property throughout his life. In your article “Marx and Communal Society for the July-August 2025 issue of Monthly Review, you quote Marx in his Grundrisse as saying that “as a member of the commune, the individual is the private proprietor” of a “particular plot of land.

Thomas Bass shows how insistence that nuclear power is a safe answer to energy needs is contradicted by the reality of the Fukushima disaster’s aftermath, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh.

This week in working class history.

On November 28, 2025, the editors of Theory & Struggle, the journal of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in London, interviewed Gabriel Rockhill about his new book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Watch a video of the interview below.

The 47th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), held in Malaysia in October 2025, was a pivotal moment in the ongoing attempts by the United States to redefine the socioeconomic trajectory of Southeast Asia. While much analysis of the Summit has focused on the impact of US tariffs, there has been less […]

On December 11, 2025, the Critical Theory Workshop hosted an online book launch and discussion in celebration of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Rockhill was joined in conversation by Ali Kadri and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, with Jennifer Ponce de León as moderator. A […]

For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.)

Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. Victor was a good friend of Monthly Review for over thirty years, who […]

MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero—soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation.

Looking back to Engels’s reflections on the ILP’s emergence in the 1890s offers a revealing lens on the forces shaping a new working-class politics in 2025, says KEITH FLETT.

It is widely understood today that the United States is confronted with a pervasive neofascist threat. Evidence of this is visible now throughout society, not least of all in Donald Trump’s White House itself.

According to a report in the Times of India (November 23), the United States has asked European countries to restrict immigration in order to preserve “Western Civilization.” Many in the Third World would find the term “Western Civilization” laughable, especially if it is used in the sense of denoting something precious and worth preserving. The atrocities […]

Today, when U.S. imperial arrogance threatens the entire continent with its military power, we must remember that powerful imperial armies have been defeated time and again by the Caribbean peoples. The Battle of Vertières is a historical milestone that has been rendered invisible by hegemonic historiography.

Modern imperialism is intimately connected to the globalization of capitalism, the quest for enhanced military capabilities, geopolitical thinking, and ideologies of national and racial superiority.

Now he does feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.  —Macbeth, Act V, Scene 2  When tyrants feel they are losing their grip on power, they resort to dramatic gestures. And sometimes carry them out. Since 1984, the so-called War on Drugs, embodied in the Comprehensive Crime […]

Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He earned PhDs at Paris 8 University and Emory University. An accomplished scholar, he has published works for many outlets, both in the United States and in France. He is the editor of the English edition of Domenico Losurdo’s book Western Marxism: How It Was Born, […]