MONTHLY REVIEW

JULY 1. 2025

July-August 2025

buy this issue This month’s “Notes from the Editors” discusses the accelerating progress of China toward sustainability.

A Special Issue on Communes in Socialist Construction

Inspired by the Venezuelan project of building socialism via the commune, this special issue looks at attempts to use communal models in socialist projects in a range of different contexts…

Venezuela’s Communal Project

Ángel Prado, a founder of El Maizal Commune and Minister of Communes since 2024, discusses Venezuela’s communal project as both a response to urgent material needs and a long-term strategy for…

Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism: The Marxist Approach

This article will be released in full online July 7, 2025. Chris Gilbert proposes to answer the question: When is a socialist commune anti-imperialist?

The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today

This article will be released in full online July 14, 2025.

Marx and Communal Society

This article will be released in full online July 21, 2025.

Charting a Communal-Ecological Path: Beyond the Growth Fetish

This article will be released in full online July 28, 2025. Brian M.

Land, Cooperation, and Socialism

This article will be released in full online July 28, 2025.

Popular Power in Brazil: What Can We Learn from Indigenous, African, and Peasant Histories of Collective Resistance?

“To tell the history of resistance, ” Roberta Traspadini writes, “we need to investigate the territories where people live their daily lives.

Making Every Yard a Farm and Every Garage a Factory: The Theory and Practice of Cooperation Jackson

This article will be released in full online August 18, 2025. Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson outlines the ongoing projects and objectives of the Mississippi-based collective Cooperation Jackson.

Communal Governance and Production in Rural China Today

This article will be released in full online August 25, 2025. Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi elucidate the history of China’s People’s Communes as told through the lens of three present-day rural villages.

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying

This article will be released in full online August 25, 2025. Inside a People’s Commune is a short 1974 book documenting life in the Chiliying Commune, one of the earliest in revolutionary China.

June 2025

buy this issue This month, the editors dive into the history of Nazi Germany for a discussion of Gleichschaltung, which in this instance describes the “falling into line” of institutions and…