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Cuba is not afraid: The Twelfth Newsletter (2026) - MR Online
1+ week, 1+ day ago (256+ words) By Vijay Prashad (Posted Mar 26, 2026) Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Roberto Matta (Chile), Cuba es la capital (Cuba Is the Capital), 1963. Soil and plaster on Masonite (mural), 188 x 340 cm. Located at the entrance to Casa de…...
Falling in love again: The extraordinary politics of Alexandra Kollontai – book review
3+ week, 3+ day ago (367+ words) Falling in love again: The extraordinary politics of Alexandra Kollontai " book review'mronline.org Making sure you're not a bot! You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge…...
The filthy rich, and what to do about them
3+ week, 6+ day ago (303+ words) The director takes bold risks with the structure of his narrative. It is dense. In 93 minutes, he foregrounds injustices in Chile, Malta, Britain and the USA, while referencing struggles in many other parts of the world. There is commentary from…...
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (205+ words) By James Petras (Posted Feb 27, 2026) The sociologist James Petras'died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London:…...
New York, cyclists against the ICE: Solidarity is contagious
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (371+ words) We publish the collective interview with the New York group Cycling x Solidarity NYC, inspired by the similar group in Chicago. Pressenza: When was your group founded? P: On February 6th, Mayor Zohran Mamdami issued an executive order to protect immigrants in…...
Michael Roberts: Interview with John Bellamy Foster
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (115+ words) Michael Roberts: Interview with John Bellamy Foster'MR Online By Michael Roberts, John Bellamy Foster (Posted Feb 20, 2026) Interview with John Bellamy Foster on his new book, Breaking the bonds of fate, Epicurus and Marx Epicurus, a Greek philosopher of the Hellenistic…...
Coffee and Cooperation: A Communal Economic Circuit in Times of Blockade (Part 1) - MR Online
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1545+ words) By Cira Pascual Marquina, Chris Gilbert (Posted Feb 16, 2026) Norkys Ramos: Before our grandparents and great-grandparents moved into this territory, Indigenous peoples lived in these mountains: we must never forget that. Later, and particularly in the 20th century, the area was settled…...
Review: “Breaking the Bonds of Fate – Epicurus and Marx” - MR Online
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (754+ words) We live in times of a deepening interconnected global crises: rising inequality, authoritarianism, fascism, and inter-imperialist rivalry conditioned by climate and ecological catastrophes that threaten life as we know it on planet Earth. Given this, one might ask; why should…...
Marx and alienation: A simple and powerful idea - MR Online
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (675+ words) I think one way to get more people to read Marx is to show how this intuitiveness can lead to an accessibility which, considering the complaints against his often-argumentative style and dense prose, isn't often associated with him. Therefore, I'm…...
Why Bad Bunny matters - MR Online
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (699+ words) Why Bad Bunny matters'mronline.org On Sunday night at Super Bowl LX, one of the most-watched cultural events in the United States became a platform not just for music but for identity, history, and political symbolism. Bad Bunny, born Benito…...