Economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order, and how the Global South can challenge the rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism.
Monthly Review Blog
New left party’s polling a wake-up call for Labour
IF KEIR STARMER’S stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it.
Glorifying and celebrating the Martyrs of June 25, 2024 Gen Z Revolution in Kenya
Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.
Peace and development are better than austerity and war: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
That is the choice: iron or peace, bullets or development.
What impels modern society toward ever more massive waste
Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital’s incessant drive to expand involves overcoming two interlocking contradictions.
Israeli teenagers burning draft orders in Central Tel-Aviv
Dozens of Israeli teenagers burned at Habima Square in Central Tel-Aviv on Tuesday, July 15, their draft orders during a demonstration, refusing to serve in the Israeli army in protest against war and genocide in Gaza. They claimed, “We won’t take part in genocide”...
“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories”: The Cuban Revolution, social vulnerability, and revolutionary ethics.
In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”
Climate denial paved the way for the Texas flooding
Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
‘Media and corporate power structures see genuine Democracy as a terrible danger’
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.
‘Media and corporate power structures see genuine Democracy as a terrible danger’
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.
Ellen Meiksins Wood facts for kids
Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942–January 14, 2016) was an important American-Canadian thinker and historian.
Lula to Trump: If you charge us 50%, we’ll charge you 50%. Brazil must be respected!
The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.