Monthly Review Blog

“The Meaning of Lenin for the 21st Century: Comments to German Comrades” is Paul Le Blanc’s individual contribution to MarxIs’Muss Kongress 2025, to be held in Berlin from 29 May to 1 June 2025.

I hope readers will share this note and it prompts debate about the current fragility of pluralism in heterodox economics and society.

The Government Media Office of Hamas, which technically rules Gaza, said today 77 per cent of the Strip’s territory was now under direct Israeli occupation, and called on the UN to act to stop “continued genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonialism, aggression” and what it...

New Delhi’s escalation over the Indus River isn’t just environmental–it’s strategic, existential, and signals a new front in the war of attrition with Islamabad.

As threats of an Israeli strike on Iran grow louder, the United States is making quiet but unmistakable moves of its own.

Whether it's total conquest or managed containment, Israel doesn't have a single grand strategy for Gaza, but it uses the possibility of both to prolong the war.

Inside the Catholic Church’s misguided plan to fix American Catholicism.

As Britain hands the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, the continued exclusion of Diego Garcia from resettlement and scrutiny raises alarms. Despite Mauritius’s commitments under the Pelindaba Treaty establishing an African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, U.S. control of...

The Venezuelan youth has faced special hardships under the U.S. blockade. The new parliament could help.

In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.

Under Trump, Racism Isn’t Just the Subtext, It’s the Text.

The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a U.S. regime-change tool.