Ultimately, the path to liberation necessitates a fundamental shift in understanding the very concept of “crime” as a political construct engineered to subdue resistance and legitimize state violence.
Monthly Review Blog
Washington’s nightmare: Modi and Xi break the ice
This week, India and China have taken a great leap of faith in their mutual efforts to incrementally advance the normalization process in their bilateral relationship.
‘When I was a student of Fanon’: an interview with Frej Stambouli
In celebration of Fanon’s centenary, we repost an interview with the Tunisian sociologist, Frej Stambouli who remembers his teacher Frantz Fanon.
ICE carries out a second raid on a New York farm as workers push to unionize
Seven Lynn-Ette & Sons farmworkers were detained just months after a previous raid that led to deportations, sparking outrage from the United Farm Workers.
Israel is not isolated: A global web of oil and complicity
Across continents, the occupation state's energy lifelines are sustained by a network of enabling powers, feeding its war machine across West Asia.
What do you fear the far right will do that you have not already done?: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)
The passivity–and complicity–of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far right of a special type.
The consolidation crisis
Mergers, money, and the erosion of patient-centered care.
Beyond Eurocentrism
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin.
On the ethics of embedding With génocidaires
On Sunday, August 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic announcement: After 674 days of barring foreign media from Gaza, Israel was planning to begin staging guided tours, under Israeli military control, for embedded members of the foreign press.
China challenges legality of U.S. ‘freedom of navigation’ operations
The report is seen as a direct rebuttal to longstanding U.S. military claims and is intended to provide a professional, legal framework defending the maritime rights of coastal states.
African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size
The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa‘s size. Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for...
The digital metabolic rift: Why do we live beyond our means online?
A quick tap on Google Maps, a casual search query, a video to unwind at the end of the day—our digital lives feel light and limitless.