From racialized redistricting to MAGA backlash, the collapse of U.S. democracy isn’t just about gerrymandering—it’s baked into our electoral system. Proportional ranked choice voting may be the only way out.
Monthly Review Blog
Venezuela dismisses Trump’s strike video as fake, warns of real U.S. war threat
On Sept. 2, President Trump released grainy footage of a speedboat erupting into flames on the high seas. Eleven alleged Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” had been vaporized, he announced triumphantly. No trial, no evidence, no due process — just a fireball and a press...
Los Angles: Racist right-wing district attorney townhall meeting disrupted
On the evening of September 4, Chicanos from East Los Angeles mobilized to disrupt a local town hall hosted by racist, right-wing Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman at a Chicano restaurant called East Los Tacos.
Trump’s dictatorship and the American oligarchy
In 2012, their market capitalization stood at just $1.1 trillion. Today, their combined market capitalization has surged over 15-fold, to $19 trillion.
The anatomy of Indonesia’s uprising
The recent surge in public anger isn’t a sudden phenomenon, but rather the culmination of 60 years of flawed economic policies and mismanagement.
The War Didn’t Ask What She Believed: Parnia Abbasi and the Silence That Followed
In the early hours of Friday, June 13, 2025, as most of Tehran slept, an Israeli missile hit a residential apartment block in the Sattarkhan district. Among the dead was 23-year-old Parnia Abbasi, a poet, bank employee, and recent graduate, alongside her teenage...
A story of resistance and renewal: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part I)
Afro-Venezuelans discuss syncretism, anti-colonial resistance, and community organization on the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo.
Nowhere to run: I am choosing death at home over forced evacuation
When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’
Confederate Guard: Trump’s blueprint to occupy the Blue Union city by city
Swap muskets for press releases, sabers for executive orders, and you’ve got the same old Lost Cause—now with Wi-Fi, merch, and a loyalty program.
The geography of lies: Samir Amin and the assassination of Eurocentrism
A Revolutionary Review of Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy by Samir Amin. Eurocentrism is not a flaw—it’s the software of global capitalism. Samir Amin detonates its ideological core, exposing how it serves empire, whitewashes history, and infects even...
Google’s $45M deal with Netanyahu: Is tech fueling propaganda in Gaza?
The $45 million Google Netanyahu propaganda deal has sparked global outrage, exposing how tech giants are shaping narratives in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Indigenous Socialism
This reading list provides context for The Red Nation’s Indigenous Socialism. Socialism is the process of being able to live as Indigenous again in full collective determination of our present and future. Communism fulfills all that begets life on Mother Earth through...