Monthly Review Press: 144 books
Fanshen
A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside,...
The Socialist Alternative
Real Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
“A good society,“ Michael Lebowitz tells us, “is one that permits the full development of human potential.” In this slim, lucid, and insightful book, he argues persuasively that such a society is possible. That capitalism fails his definition of a good society is evident from even a cursory...
E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left
Essays and Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld of labor history,
best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The
Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows,
Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated
educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist,...
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...
The Russians Are Coming, Again
The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian...
by Steve Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with...
Labor and Monopoly Capital
The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the more pervasive is the terrorism perpetuated by the United States itself, whether through military force overseas...
by James D. Cockcroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Written to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first predominantly anti-capitalist revolution in the world, Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now is the perfect introductory text and one that will also sharpen the understanding of seasoned observers. Cockcroft provides readers with the historical...
by Hal Draper, Ernest Haberkern
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Marx and Engels' views on war, revolution and the relation between the two exolved over time in response to the turbulent political and military history of the nineteenth centurey. The result has been widespread confusion among historians and in the socialist movement. The tendency has been to search...
A Redder Shade of Green
Intersections of Science and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
A socialist response to the looming ecological crisis
As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and eco-socialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural...
The Unknown Cultural Revolution
Life and Change in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic...
Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary...
Confronting Black Jacobins
The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also...