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This month marks the fiftieth anniversary
of Monthly Review Press. The idea of starting a book
publishing arm of MR had its origin in an accidental meeting in Central
Park in 1951 between noted journalist I.F. Stone, then a reporter and columnist
of the leftist New York Daily Compass, and MR editors Leo
Huberman and Paul Sweezy. Stone told Huberman and Sweezy that he had written a
book disputing the official history of the Korean War but had not been able to
find a publisher in that era of fervent McCarthyism and war hysteria. They
asked to see the manuscript, and on its strength decided to establish Monthly
Review Press. The Hidden History of the Korean War, the very first book
published by Monthly Review Press, was released in May 1952. REVIEW
OF THE MONTH Beginning in the 1980s, there was a significant increase in awareness of the deep flaws of mainstream journalism among those on the U.S. left. Writers such as Todd Gitlin, Herbert Schiller, Gaye Tuchman, Ben Bagdikian, and Michael Parenti, each in his or her own way, drew attention to the incompatibility between a corporate run news media and an ostensibly democratic society. The work of Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, in particular, introduced an entire generation of progressives to a critical position regarding mainstream journalism. As the title of their masterful Manufacturing Consent indicated, the capitalist news media are far more about generating support for elite policies than they are about empowering people to make informed political decisions. U.S. Offensive in
Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization The worldwide U.S. military-political offensive is manifest in multiple contexts in Latin America. The U.S. offensive aims to prop up decaying client regimes, destabilize independent regimes, pressure the center-left to move to the right, and destroy or isolate the burgeoning popular movements challenging the U.S. empire and its clients. We will discuss the particular forms of the U.S. offensive in each country, and then explore the specific and general reasons for the offensive in contemporary Latin America. In the concluding section we will discuss the political alternatives in the context of the U.S. offensive. Zimbabwe, South
Africa, and the Power Politics of Bourgeois Democracy Since February 2000, when President Robert Mugabe suffered his first-ever national electoral defeat-over a proposed new constitution-Zimbabwe has witnessed confusing debilitating political turmoil. A decade of economic decline, characteristic of the imposition of structural adjustment across Africa, preceded the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Standards of living had crashed during the 1990s, the state withdrew-or priced at prohibitive levels-many social services, and the economy deindustrialized. State and private sector corruption were rife. Neoliberalism, the State, and the Left: A
Canandian Perspective An assessment of the left today must begin with an analysis of neoliberalism. For over the past two decades neoliberalism has come to dominate public discourse and the modalities of the state in one country after another. The ascendancy of neoliberalism has occurred through a series of interconnected transformations that began with the economic turmoil of the 1970s, the rise of New Right governments across the 1980s, and the deepening internationalization of the circuits of money and industrial capital, modes of communication, and governance structures in the 1990s. Neoliberalism has come to mark a historic turning-point in the balance of power, the social forms of economic and political power, and the patterns of everyday life. From the perspective of the renewal of the left in Canada, and indeed North America, it is critical that we record the importance of this point and its many implications. Why
Socialism? This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. |
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