Monthly Review Blog

The worst crime the USSR committed, the one for which it will never be forgiven, was to have been a shared hope for a more just, more dignified and more humane society.

In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about the Arctic...

More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.

“Your money is not charity, it’s an investment.” That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21.

The “Twitter Files” are a set of internal communications including emails between company executives as well as with politicians, the FBI, Pentagon and other agencies.

The continuing relevance of High Noon.

The U.S.-based tech giant overturns its decision to remove posts calling for the demise of Iran’s leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei.

In the past few years, the right-wing media have become laser-focused on transgender issues, not always attacking trans people individually, but instead claiming that children are being “groomed” to adopt “radical gender ideology,” and that rights for the trans...

New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade.

We have to address the way that corporations create, shape, and control demand, leveraging the state as a tool.

In the spring of 1860, wealthy businessman Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could illegally kidnap and ship Africans from Africa to Mobile, Alabama, without being detected by federal officials.

As a rainbow of social movements in Peru prepare for a general strike starting on 4 January the country is polarised between party politicians’ intrigues and action of the masses on the streets.