Twenty-five years ago, “degrowth” was conceived by its proponents as a “buzzword” carrying a vague ideological charge: Serge Latouche and his supporters said they wanted to “change the way people think” in order to “get out of the economy and development”... Today,...
Monthly Review Blog
Book Review: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s ‘Have Black Lives Ever Mattered’
Though he’s spent the last 35 years incarcerated—and at least thirty of those years in isolation on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has remained steadfast in his activism, especially in regards to police brutality, criminal punishment, and black liberation.
#Africa4Palestine mourns the loss of Archbishop Tutu
PRESS STATEMENT: Africa4Palestine mourns the loss of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Putin hints at military options in Ukraine
The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to...
Salvador Allende’s Grandson Responds to Boric: The Human Rights Double Standard and ‘Chic’ Leftism
Doctor Sepúlveda Allende’s open letter to Boric is translated and reproduced.
I want to get our rights from the Americans who harmed us: The fifty-first newsletter (2021)
The persecution of Julian Assange is a fundamental assault on journalism, press freedom, and freedom of expression.
Protecting the Nazis: The extraordinary vote of Ukraine and the USA
The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.
Climate litigation up in 2021, with private sector now exposed
This year’s successes include Shell becoming the first company in history to be held legally liable for contributing to climate change.
Omicron: It didn’t have to be Groundhog Day
Standing at the precipice of another major, acute coronavirus crisis, the country is rightly asking how the Tories have let this happen again.
I want to get our rights from the Americans who harmed us: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2021)
When WikiLeaks and Assange released military video, they embarrassed the United States government. All its claims of humanitarian warfare lost credibility. It is from this point onwards that the US government–whether under the charge of Obama, Trump, or Biden–sought...
Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press: Part One
Eugene V. Debs may be my all-time favorite American and Karl Marx my all-time favorite journalist. But my employer for a decade was The Wall Street Journal, and for another decade it was the Los Angeles Times.
Bourgeois Idealism & the Promotion of Anti-Intellectualism
I know already as I’m writing this piece that it’s not going to be a piece that’s widely read and/or shared. I know this because I’ve written a number of pieces that have been read and shared by thousands.










