The March issue is out now!Preview this month’s articles, subscribe, and check out the latest offer.SUBSCRIBE TO MONTHLY REVIEW!REVIEW OF THE MONTHEngels for Our Times: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Revolution“It is surprising,” Marnie Holborow writes, “how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked.” In responding to this gap in analysis, Holborow…

By Bruce Fretts With politically charged movies like “Vice” and “BlacKkKlansman” expected to be contenders, the 2019 Academy Awards could prove provocative. But it’s unlikely any ceremony will ever inspire more heated division than the Oscars a little over 40 years ago, when the best supporting actress winner, Vanessa Redgrave, was burned in effigy outside the…

Share Related Topics By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in detention,…

History is usually written by the privileged and what the world needs is a more solid theoretical foundation in “history from below” or “history of people” that enables a systematic analysis of various sociocultural products from the perspectives of the oppressed. Modern interpretations of cultural artefacts may at the outset look progressive. However, they often…

The BBC audio series ‘Three Million’ presents the famine as living history rather than a distant episode. Bengal Famine of 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Support Us HISTORYMEDIAWORLD26/FEB/2024 The Bengal countryside is “the biggest archive in the world”, comments a contributor to a new BBC audio series, ‘Three Million‘. The wartime famine which claimed so many…