February 1, 2023
As C. Wright Mills wrote in 1958, "the immediate causes of World War III are the preparations for it." This month's "Notes from the Editors" situates Mills's words in a contemporary context, with a New Cold War in full swing and imperial powers pushing us ever closer to a Third World War.
February 1, 2023
February’s Review of the Month confronts the new irrationalism and its reactionary tendencies, which find their roots in troubling philosophical and historical foundations. The answer, John Bellamy Foster writes, can be found in a return to historical materialism.
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February 1, 2023
Martin Hart-Landsberg revisits the history of the industrial re-organization of the U.S. economy during the Second World War. What can we learn from our past about the systemic changes necessary to face our future?
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February 1, 2023
The Half-Earth movement calls for rewilidng half the earth as a means of combating the planetary crisis. Brian Napoletano explores the implications of the Half-Earth approach as outlined Vettese and Pendergrass's Half-Earth Socialism.
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February 1, 2023
Tomás Mac Sheoin reviews Road to Repeal, which documents the struggle for abortion rights in Ireland, from its constitutional prohibition to the ban's repeal in 2018.
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January 1, 2023
This month's "Notes from the Editors" marks the 30-year anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The abject failure of this framework to enact meaningful progress on the planetary crisis continued to be on full display in 2022, including at November's COP27 in Egypt.
January 1, 2023
This issue's Review of the Month discusses Marx's role as the foremost revolutionary critic of bourgeois Enlightenment humanism. To this day, his conception of "the universal metabolism of nature" remains a powerful antidote to the phantasmagoric "dark ecology" posited by today's posthumanism.
January 1, 2023
The global balance of power shifting. The resistance to NATO's push for a New Cold War is growing, particularly among the Third World countries that have historically borne the brunt of the West's imperial projects. It is the role of socialists living in the imperial core, Paweł Wargan writes, to support the peoples of the Third World as they rise up in the new era.
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