Monthly Review Press imprint: 144 books
Union Power
The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as historian...
The Long Revolution of the Global South
Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
The final writings of Samir Amin—a mix of personal experiences and theoretical analysis of global challenges and movements
In this second volume of his memoirs, Amin takes us on a journey to a dizzying array of countries, recounting the stages of his ongoing dialogue over several decades...
The Liberal Virus
Permanent War and the Americanization of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where European political culture since the French...
Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century
Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new...
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable...
Big Farms Make Big Flu
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry – each animal genetically identical to the next – packed together...
by Istvan Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural...
Beyond Capital
Toward a Theory of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
"Not only profound in its analysis, but also so passionately inspired by sympathy for the downtrodden and their struggle for liberation. . ."
--Daniel Singer, The Nation
"This is an important book, heavy in size and tone. It belongs in every serious library."
--Choice
by Michal Kalecki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This volume includes six essays, the first
dating from 1935 and the last from 1967, by one of the outstanding
economists of our time. The economics presented in this volume is
political economy worthy of the name: a discipline which shows us the
social relations, in particular the class and group...
When Media Goes to War
Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and propaganda. Using Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and drawing upon the seminal works of Noam Chomsky,...
Harbors Rich with Ships
The Selected Revolutionary Writings of Miroslav Krleža, Radical Luminary of Modern World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Miroslav Krleža was a giant of Yugoslav literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen books, including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and essays, Krleža steadfastly pursued a radical humanism and artistic integrity....
The People’s Lawyer
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice, From Civil Rights to Guantánamo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending therights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Centerfor Constitutional Rights (CCR) has not played a central role,and yet few people have ever heard of it. Whether defendingthe rights of black people in the South, opponents of...
by Vo Nguyen Giap
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s.
Late Marx and the Russian Road
Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Explores Marx’s attitude to “developing” societies. Includes translations of Marx’s notes from the 1880s, among the most important finds of the last century.