Monthly Review Blog

María Corina Machado, the far-right Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, vowed “massive privatization”, offering to sell off $1.7 trillion of her country’s resources to U.S. corporations.

The new federal report indicates abuse of power by a senior Swiss official with financial ties to Israel.

TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legendary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI.

US president Donald Trump rumbles fatuously on as his phony “peace” plan for Gaza unravels, the US/NATO war against Russia sinks ever deeper in the mud of Ukraine, and his bunker-buster blow failed to put a dent in Iran’s nuclear program. In the United States he has...

Scapegoating newcomers has become a convenient distraction from policy failure.

Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani.

Duncan’s election is significant because he has sharply raised the problems of racism and police repression at a time when the Trump regime and servile state governments are attempting to stop any discussion of the real history of this country and racist oppression...

Luisa Gonzalez, former presidential candidate of Ecuador for the Citizen Revolution (RC) party, claimed that the general elections fraud is “confirmed” after voters rejected Noboa’s referendum aimed at rewriting the 2008 Constitution established during Rafael Correa’s...

Major tech companies–OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok)–are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence models. The companies claim that this spending will...

As a forum for economic cooperation between countries, the G20 lacks a legal basis.

An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of U.S. sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.

Trump tried to walk back the importance of the 50-year mortgage plan he’d already promoted online, and that Pulte called a “complete game changer”—telling Fox he just thought it might “help a little bit.”