Monthly Review Blog

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is now very close to 429 parts per million.

The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.

It is just six months into Trump’s presidency, and he has waged direct military assaults on two countries, Yemen and Iran. Many of Trump’s supporters were surprised by this, for he had campaigned on a platform of ending U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

The Swiss rule of law is awakening. After accepting all EU sanctions against Russia up to now, Switzerland is drawing a line for the first time and refuses to prosecute journalists – bravo!

Women are conditioned to accept sexism, but they are also able to rebel against it in the right circumstances.

On the morning of January 21, 1960, 431 black and six white coal miners were entombed in a sudden collapse at Clydesdale Collieries near Coalbrook in Sasolburg, Free State Province.[1] The first rockfall took place at about 4:30 p.m. No one was killed or severely...

In a ruling that stems from the president's birthright citizenship order, the "conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses."

The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.

When Bertolt Brecht wrote: “Hungry man; reach for the book” he was articulating the Left attitude to education, as something that broadens perceptions and hence is essentially emancipatory. The fascist attitude to education is diametrically opposite to this.

In Gaza, starvation is weaponized, aid is corrupted, and humanitarianism is hijacked by profiteers and war criminals posing as saviors, as Taylor Miller exposes in this searing indictment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its genocidal complicity.

A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.