Monthly Review Blog

Layoffs are scary. They are also rampant. Over the last 25 years, somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 2 million people lost their jobs in a typical month as a result of being laid off or fired.

Tariffs raise the prices of imported goods in the domestic market relative to money wages, which is what makes possible, at least in part, the replacement of such imports by domestically-produced goods. Tariffs do not of course lead to all imports being eliminated,...

Palestinians have delivered testimony after testimony about the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run “death traps” masquerading as aid sites. But no one listened until Haaretz published direct testimony from the perpetrators.

The move came hours after Zionist far-right influencer Laura Loomer raged online against the arrival of severely wounded children in U.S. hospitals.

Today marks the beginning of Fidel Castro’s centenary—a hundred years since the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

This isn’t sad, it’s enraging. And it deserves a response of unmitigated forceful aggression.

President Donald Trump has now put troops on the District of Columbia’s streets in both of his terms. This time around, the Washington Post is less alarmed.

Between the null vote promoted by Evo Morales and the dispersion of the progressive camp, the right wing is poised to reopen the neoliberal path that the MAS had closed for twenty years.

As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.

Some unpalatable takeouts from the killing fields of Gaza.

Imagine you get a letter from your manager a week before you are set to teach classes, removing you from teaching duties but saying you’ll get paid anyway.

Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution.