Monthly Review Blog

Paul Sweezy helped start and edit the well-known magazine Monthly Review. People remember him most for his ideas in economics. He was one of the top thinkers in Marxian economics in the second half of the 20th century.

The attacks on the past, as Fanon puts it, are also attacks on the history, culture, and very way of life of oppressed people. 

As record-breaking heat waves sweep across the country this summer, a new national poll reveals an overwhelming majority of Americans are linking the punishing temperatures to climate change—and voicing deep concern about the government’s ability to respond.

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Despite the hot sun, few Americans were wearing rose-colored glasses these days, but rather fear dark clouds ahead. Many feel worried, even despairing. But sometimes they could rejoice at bright spots.

The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes.

Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Pakistan’s General Asim Munir—have found common cause in nominating Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn't just absurd, it is grotesque.

Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which got passed by both houses in the U.S. and has now become law, is a massive assault on welfare spending.

Cartoonist Mr. Fish (real name Dwayne Booth) posted an update to his Patreon on March 20 headed “Fish: Laid Off!”

Following an AP investigation accusing a U.S. mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.

Kevin Crane dissects the absurd and chilling corporate fantasies around a post-war Gaza, where the involvement of Blair brings it all back to the lies of the Iraq War over twenty years ago.