Monthly Review Blog

The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working.

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.

Antonis Chaliakopoulos offers an intro to Heraclitus, and to Hegel, via each other.

El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.

Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world... but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.

Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Stephen Miran revealed that Washington’s strategy is to use tariffs to force countries to pay the USA tribute to maintain its global financial and military empire. This is the idea behind the so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord”.

The only functioning hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service after an Israeli airstrike destroyed key medical departments.

It is important for an intellectual position not only to be right but to be right for the right reasons; and the near-universal condemnation of Donald Trump’s aggressive imposition of tariffs, though right, is right for the wrong reasons.

“Everything gives way and nothing stands fast.” —Heraclitus, as quoted in Plato’s Cratylus1 During the “Age of Catastrophe” (1919–45), a series of profound economic, political, and ideological crises disrupted what had appeared to be the “normal” functioning of...

Trump gives Israel "the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza" – new manager, same empire.

CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump's FCC.

Where is all this going? Well, it means a slump in production in the U.S. and most major economies; and it means a revival of inflation, particularly in the U.S. This is madness, no? Well, as I said last February when all this kicked off, there is method in this...