Monthly Review Blog

What defines global capitalism today?

Solidarity activist and analyst Roger Harris takes stock of the rapidly escalating U.S. military threats against Venezuela.

Politically manufactured panic over “transgender extremism” endangers trans people, and the corporate media is unfortunately playing along.

It’s time to splash our faces with cold water, ask how and at what cost that water made it to our taps, and recognize that our economy can’t keep growing exponentially.

DENNIS BROE situates the new Netflix series House of Guinness within a genre that is dazzled by the perverse spectacle of capitalist domination.

This continuous tendency towards a rise in income inequality arises from the fact that, owing to the mobility of capital across country borders, wages across the entire world have to suffer the baneful consequences of the massive third world labour reserves; and the...

What would William Morris think if he would see his work being printed on cheap smartphone cases? His response might not be as straight forward as you think. Though Morris preferred craftsmanship over mass production, and fiercely opposed the destruction of nature, he...

Miller’s presence and voice reveal more than the death of conscience; they expose the swindle of a future already in motion.

Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism. Yet they have often been coopted by entrenched social classes. Can their energy be channelled towards progressive ends?

From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors.

In The Graduate (1967), a family friend corners young Benjamin Braddock with one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.”

Mao Zedong said in 1956 that, by the beginning of the 21st century, China would have become “a powerful socialist industrial country” and that “she ought to have made a greater contribution to humanity.”