Subjects Archives: History

If the official trailer is any indication, “mistakes” of the past regarding the depiction of other cultures (Euro-Western supremacy’s gaffes are all too often by design) will be repeated.

The Diggers had several songs, but their most renowned one was never published in their time. Today, only one anonymous, untitled, and undated version of the song exists, writes Ariel Hessayon.

Garveyism and Afrocentrism, while different, are grounded in their shared nature of being expressions of a call for National conscience.

Western sanctions imposed on Iran, Russia, Syria, and in fact any country that refuses to be driven by Western will, have motivated many countries in the world to search seriously for ways and means to liberate their destinies from Western hegemony.

I often think about how one of the most revolutionary black men in history can be completely altered; completely reconstructed; undergoing a kind of magical jolly negro transmorgification?

Iraq and Libya were both targeted by the U.S. in the month of March. The anniversaries of these war crimes must be commemorated, and the nature of the US/EU/NATO war machine must be understood.

This March 24th, the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Generals and Admirals Association of Serbia, Veterans Association SUBNOR of Serbia and some other independent associations and think tanks, will mark the 24th anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Serbia and Montenegro (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), honoring heroes fallen in the defense of the country as well as all the victims of this illegal and criminal act.

Musicians around the world depicted and resisted the 2003 invasion of Iraq in other ways, yet others scraped the barrel of base, chauvinistic interests to sing for the imperialists. Sound was a partisan weapon.

On the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, Katherine Connelly discusses his revolutionary contribution.

Brigitte Reimann’s Siblings has just been published in English translation by Penguin in its series of classic international literature. It comes 60 years after the original German novella appeared. The translator is Lucy Jones.

Every dawn, during my daily walk to the foothills of the Andes, I pass by the Tobalaba Aerodrome, a facility that caters to a wide variety of private aircraft. In a year marking the 50th anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, that airport arouses less affable feelings.

Daniel Tutt of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics interviews John Bellamy Foster on his new article, “The New Irrationalism,” from the February 2023 (Volume 74, Number 9) issue of Monthly Review.

Students said they were ordered to leave out major historical moments, including slavery and civil rights movement, from the programme scheduled for February 22 at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa.

Sean Ledwith begins a new monthly series that explores how the Marxist tradition seeks to explain the cultural peaks of human history.

Today the Linke is tragically split, on both political approaches and personalities.… [M]ost worrisome is the split about the present war. Some in the Left downplay the role of NATO, call for total condemnation of Russian imperialism and total military support for the Ukraine, in agreement with most media positions.

In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

Tariq Ali’s new book examines the disconnect between Churchill’s popular image and the larger context of his life and times.

In the spring of 1860, wealthy businessman Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could illegally kidnap and ship Africans from Africa to Mobile, Alabama, without being detected by federal officials.

Ministry of Education justified the move as “exploring the foundation of the Republic of Korea based on liberal democracy.”

As we enter into a new year and a new era of fighting Covid-19—while anticipating the new viruses that will inevitably emerge—the hope is that the world can learn from these hard-earned lessons, act and cooperate using science, not rumors, and embody a spirit of international solidarity, not stigma.