Monthly Review Blog

By targeting the opposition and courting the Kurdish movement, Ankara is laying the groundwork for a post-electoral authoritarian system.

Trump threatens RICO charges after CODEPINK protest, escalating crackdown on dissent and free speech.

It is immediately evident that the criteria laid out in this testament by Friedrich Engels for assessing a socialist legal program—and, by extension, a socialist theory of law—cannot be applied unchanged to the “Marxist theory of law” advanced by the Soviet Marxist...

Hundreds of students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, walked out on September 17, 2025, to protest teacher Bobby Nove’s alleged social media comment of “Good” in response to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 11 at the...

Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.

The danger to human life lies not so much in heat as in heat waves, extreme events that have more than doubled in frequency and length in recent decades.

According to Attiah, she was the last full-time Black opinion columnist at The Post, where she was employed for 11 years. Other Black Washington Post staffers in senior positions who have recently departed, via the recent buyout round, include Monica Norton and...

The decision increases pressure for sanctions, judicial action, and international accountability.

Euro-Med Monitor’s teams documented the detonation of ten booby-trapped armoured vehicles this morning, Wednesday, 17 September, between residential homes in Street 8, south of Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, one of Gaza City’s central residential areas.

The prime minister’s inaction on a U.S. massacre in the Caribbean echoes his past role in undermining Venezuela’s sovereignty.

I’ve said it many times before and I’ll surely say it many times again: when everyone’s emotions are running hot, that’s when it’s most important to be intensely skeptical of everything your government does.

How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.