Monthly Review Blog

Time to stop flogging it.

This review is a key UN mechanism where all member states seek constructive dialogue and cooperation.

That’s right, kids: work your fingers to the bone, catch a few lucky breaks, pour all your blood, sweat, tears and time into winning the capitalism game, and you too could one day be as miserable and alienated as Elon Reeve Musk.

The shimmer of nuclear power seems to be growing brighter of late, ensnaring even those on the left.

U.S. President Trump’s economic strategy for his second term aims to get the rest of the world, especially its wealthy allies with greater means, to pay more to strengthen the world’s richest economy.

When Nietzsche discovered Stendhal it was rather late in his life, but he remarked that reading Stendhal was “one of the most beautiful strokes of fortune of my life.” This is exactly how it felt for me to discover Michel Clouscard. It was Marx who woke me from a...

Just in case Trump is indeed talking about testing a nuclear explosive device, now is probably a good time to look back at the Bulletin’s March 2024 issue, “A return to nuclear testing?”, which lays out the many negative impacts of nuclear testing.

When Mamdani quoted Debs this week, he was not reaching backward. He was reminding us that democratic courage has ancestors.

The economic machinations of the art world are often obscured, even if they remain largely traceable through commercial galleries, fairs, auction houses, cultural foundations, contemporary art institutions, public museums, educational platforms, and the like.

A new book on Canada’s role in the destruction of Libya should embarrass the NDP and prompt members to ask tough questions of leadership candidates.

The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned.

Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism.