Monthly Review Press imprint: 144 books
by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination...
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s
state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected
occupation by union members and their allies. The protests
to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically
unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly
forty...
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is a seminal examination of the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the...
The Socialist Imperative
From Gotha to Now
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital(winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of “Real Socialism.” Here, he develops...
Faces of Latin America
Fourth Edition (Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment and cultures of Latin America. Duncan Green and Sue Branford take...
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements—can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald...
A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race....
The Reawakening of the Arab World
Challenge and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
According to renowned Marxist economist Samir Amin, the recent Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive "second awakening" of the Global South. From the self-immolation in December 2010 of a Tunisian street vendor, to the consequent outcries in Cairo's Tahrir Square against...
Capitalist Globalization
Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Globalization,” surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords
of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically
considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market
forces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business
leaders, and mainstream journalists...
Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life....
The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism
How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Mainstream, or more formally, neoclassical, economics claims to be a science. But as Michael Perelman makes clear in his latest book, nothing could be further from the truth. While a science must be rooted in material reality, mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of...
Agriculture and Food in Crisis
Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to suffer from hunger or food...
by The Research Unit for Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
"This book contributes significantly ot the conversation seeking to understand the international forces at play in the threatening war on Iraq."—Nelson Mandela "Behind the Invasion of Iraq . . .synthesizes the seemingly disparate threads of the U.S. war drive in a blistering indictment...
Revolutionary Doctors
How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the Worlds Conception of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer...