Monthly Review Blog

The Nicaraguan people, who have faced throughout our history all kinds of difficulties, invasions, climate impacts, and political threats, have always been able to face them successfully, trusting in our own strengths and in the unity of our people.

“The administration has chosen to hold food for more than forty million vulnerable people hostage to try to force Democrats to capitulate without negotiations,” says one Georgetown law professor.

Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of devastation through the Antilles with over 30 deaths in Haiti and Jamaica to date.

Google and Amazon agreed to secretly help Israel avoid international legal trouble, even if it meant possibly breaking laws in the U.S. or other countries, according to a bombshell investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian.

Militarism is an essential feature of contemporary capitalism, and targeting this malign partnership in economies of war, genocide and dispossession, has to be the immediate priority.

A Strategic Blunder Disguised as Strength.

The U.S. has tried to use economic and military pressure to maintain a dominant position in Asia, but the rise of China and the region’s agenda have made it increasingly difficult.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel celebrated the overwhelming support of the international community at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where 165 member states rejected the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

All sorts of threats are being invoked to justify this step up in militarisation, especially a Russian threat.

The genocide in Gaza, the threat to Venezuela, and the targeting of Iran are not isolated crises. They are coordinated fronts in a single war effort attempting to enforce imperial dominance.

Both Catherine Connolly and Michael D are unabashedly left-wing, absorbed by the struggle for people to live with dignity in Ireland itself and gripped by severe global challenges, particularly those posed by U.S. imperialism.

German-born Karl Marx might well be the most prominent philosopher and economist to have elaborated on a capitalism that created a class system. Yet, Germany is moving from the denial of class towards a “rediscovery” of class.