Monthly Review Blog

"No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the working class struggles to survive," the democratic socialist senator said.

Donald Trump’s tariffs however serve a broader objective: they are like a military intervention, or a coup d’etat or a terrorist attack, to make nations bend to his will. Indian garment exporters for instance are being hit by 50 per cent tariffs not for the protection...

From racialized redistricting to MAGA backlash, the collapse of U.S. democracy isn’t just about gerrymandering—it’s baked into our electoral system. Proportional ranked choice voting may be the only way out.

On Sept. 2, President Trump released grainy footage of a speedboat erupting into flames on the high seas. Eleven alleged Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” had been vaporized, he announced triumphantly. No trial, no evidence, no due process — just a fireball and a press...

On the evening of September 4, Chicanos from East Los Angeles mobilized to disrupt a local town hall hosted by racist, right-wing Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman at a Chicano restaurant called East Los Tacos.

In 2012, their market capitalization stood at just $1.1 trillion. Today, their combined market capitalization has surged over 15-fold, to $19 trillion.

The recent surge in public anger isn’t a sudden phenomenon, but rather the culmination of 60 years of flawed economic policies and mismanagement.

In the early hours of Friday, June 13, 2025, as most of Tehran slept, an Israeli missile hit a residential apartment block in the Sattarkhan district. Among the dead was 23-year-old Parnia Abbasi, a poet, bank employee, and recent graduate, alongside her teenage...

Afro-Venezuelans discuss syncretism, anti-colonial resistance, and community organization on the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo.

When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’

Swap muskets for press releases, sabers for executive orders, and you’ve got the same old Lost Cause—now with Wi-Fi, merch, and a loyalty program.

A Revolutionary Review of Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy by Samir Amin. Eurocentrism is not a flaw—it’s the software of global capitalism. Samir Amin detonates its ideological core, exposing how it serves empire, whitewashes history, and infects even...