Monthly Review Blog

The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.

States Parties to the Genocide Convention, as well as other influential states, must take concrete and immediate steps to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza, including halting the supply of weapons and military support to Israel that are used to commit...

If the maintenance of full employment is impossible under capitalism, then so is the maintenance of a welfare state.

Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the U.S. gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the U.S. sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu–now controlled by a leader...

This is the implementation of the Trump administration’s avowed policy of criminalizing dissent—in the words of the NSPM-7 decree, outlawing “organized campaigns of…radicalization…designed to…change or direct policy outcomes”—and as such is another giant step towards...

Trump bragged about the operation, calling it the “largest” tanker ever taken and adding, “we keep it, I guess.”

Study shows that the hotter climate regime will last centuries, not decades.

The Indian state of Kerala has eradicated extreme poverty through clear public policy, decentralized planning, and the leadership of its cooperative movement.

Chris Nineham on Starmer taking authoritarianism to new heights.

Europe celebrated defeating fascism in 1945 but immediately resumed its colonial control of the Global South. Now, eighty years later, the West is bankrupt financially and morally and is discovering that colonialism’s bill has finally come due.

Sudan’s Communists hope that their “comrades in the world Communist movement will answer that call,” Saied said, and “do whatever they can to build an international movement to help win peace in Sudan and open the path for our people to decide our own future, free of...

MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero—soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation.