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For our seventy-fifth anniversary issue, John Bellamy Foster revisits the legacy of Albert Einstein and his deep connections to Monthly Review…

Within a couple of days, PPT has seen two recent studies of the role of the monarchy in urban development. The first is a journal article with Asian Studies Review by Puangchon Unchanam of Naresuan University, titled "No Royal Road: Urban Transportation, Capitalist Development, and Monarchy in Thailand." The abstract states: This article examines the…

It's the best science fiction series since Disney's 'Andor.'

It's the best science fiction series since Disney's 'Andor.'

Seminal essay from 1979 from Diane Elson arguing for the importance of Marx’s “Value Theory of Labour.” The essay was a product of debates within the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE). Full PDF of the essay also below. Note: As Soren Mau pointed out, more than two decades before Elson, Raya Dunayevskaya suggested that we should speak of the ‘value theory of labour’ rather than the ‘labour theory of value’. See 'The Logic and Scope of Capital, Volumes II and III' he...

In this revised 2021 paper Verne Harris offers an interpretation of what he calls parallel Palestinian and South African struggles for decolonisation. He uses the lens pr

In February 2011, while I was drafting what was to become "Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism," written with Robert W. McChesney and R.

John Bellamy Foster — The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress.

In the introduction to this summer's special issue on "Planned Degrowth," John Bellamy Foster outlines the major themes of degrowth thought, including…

Margaret Thatcher has her place in world as well as British history.