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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • As we reflect on 2024, the complicity of mainstream media was on naked display as the genocide in Palestine continued unabated. It reminded us of the importance of our collective struggle.

    JAMHOOR 2024 Year in Review & Call for Support The Prisoners in Bangladesh’s Backyard Farihah Ahmed Afghan Refugees and the Left in Sindh [English] Ayyaz Mallick The Student Intifada: Palestine, South Asia and the Question of Solidarity JAMHOOR A People’s History of Afghan Displacement in Pakistan Sanaa Alimia The Colonial Roots of Sri Lanka’s Tax…

  • The Dialectical Ecologist: Richard Levins and the Science and Praxis of the Human-Nature Metabolism

    by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark (Jan 01, 2025) Topics: Biography  Ecology  Marxism  Marxist Ecology  Media Places: Americas  Cuba  United States John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author, most recently, of The Dialectics of Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2024). Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Utah. He is the author…

  • The Extreme Court

    by Marge Piercy (Jan 01, 2025) Topics: Capitalism  Class  Marxism  Political Economy Places: Americas  United States U.S. Supreme Court building. By USCapitol – U.S. Supreme Court Building, Public Domain, Link Their values are clearas a sheet of glass: peopleof color, those withoutlots of money don’t deservecollege or debt relief. Those too poor to air-condition, fly off to a coolisland aren’t neededany longer. They die soeasily. Let them.…

  • January 2025 (Volume 76, Number 8)

    by The Editors (Jan 01, 2025) Topics: Democracy  Fascism  Marxism  Media  Movements Places: Americas  United States In January 2025, Donald Trump is entering the White House as president for the second time. The conditions that led to his first ascendance to the presidency were addressed in Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster’s book, Trump in the White House (Monthly Review Press, 2017), written in the first few months…

  • The Enduring Relevance of Development Economics in an Unequal World

    Some economists argue that as developing countries’ incomes rise and mainstream economics converge with development studies, the distinctiveness of development economics diminishes, threatening to make it obsolete. But this statement ignores lasting imperialism, structural inequalities and each country’s unique challenges. Development economics remains both relevant and crucial. By Shirin Akhter, C. Saratchand Via Shutterstock. @CSaratchand SHARE January…

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