Monthly Review Blog

Indian economist Amartya Sen has posed a devastating challenge to the dominant capitalist understanding of development. But Sen’s own analytical framework doesn’t go far enough in exposing the inherently exploitative logic of capitalism.

It has now been one week since Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report claiming that the Biden administration deliberately blew up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline without Germany’s consent or even knowledge–an operation which began planning long before the Russian...

Rodolfo Reyes, a lawyer and nephew of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, charged on Tuesday that the reports from two laboratories in Canada and Denmark confirm the assassination of the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature with a biological weapon.

The German Democratic Republic (DDR) was a socialist state founded in East Germany in 1949 as a democratic, antifascist reaction to the Second World War and the subsequent restoration of monopoly capitalism in West Germany.

Montezuma was the last de facto emperor of the Aztecs. It is known that during his reign the Aztec Empire reached its peak in terms of expansionist activity, political reforms and infrastructure construction

The American Bar Association passed a resolution condemning antisemitism but removed a reference to the controversial IHRA definition from its text.

An economist and National Assembly member reflects on the economic transformations that Chávez promoted.

Fossil fuel-backed Democrats and Republicans are teaming up to promote natural gas as a clean energy source and maintain its use.

The U.S. is creating panic over a possible flying object downed above the United States and Canada to distract journalists from their possible major sabotage of the Nord stream blast, according to famed whistleblower Edward Snowden.

This new edition of Marx’s 1875 'Critique of the Gotha Program' comes with a few surprises in translation for Marxists who have previously interpreted it as justification for the continuation of wage-labour and commodity production, under the ‘dictatorship of the...

Protesters stage a fourth round of nationwide demonstrations on Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform the country's pension system.

Brazil-based reporter and author Brian Mier outlines the strategy of lawfare and how it has been used in Latin America, particularly in the Lava Jato investigation.