June 2026

A War Lost and Won: A New World emerging?

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

(I am human enough never to want to murder almost two hundred little schoolgirls. But I am also weak and evil enough to do it – without any apology!

What the Iran War means for China: Beijing fears US Volatility more than American Power

Zongyuan Zoe Liu

Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting the US he always wanted.

The advent of capitalism and its impact on shaping the world

The transformational 18th century

Rashed Rahman

The theoretical construct that can help us understand how and why the world has come to be what it is today and whither it is going can only be a study of the history of the advent of capitalism and its subsequent (and continuing) impact on shaping the world.

Notes from the Editors (of Monthly Review)

With the Trump administration’s backing down on its tariffs on China, its military abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism? – I

Vijay Prashad

In mid-December 2025, an interview with New York University sociologist Vivek Chibber was conducted by Democratic Socialists of America’s Melissa Naschek

The Marxist Punjabi Movement: Language and Literary Radicalism in Pakistan – I

Sara Kazmi

The interface between language and politics in South Asia has had a vibrant, and often times, controversial history in the region.

The spiral of violence in Balochistan

Roshaan Khattak and Thomas Jeffrey Milley examine the causes of the violence between Baloch insurgents and the Pakistani government.

I was incarcerated for attending Aurat March on International Women’s Day

Aleah F

Of pitting a burgeoning feminist movement against a society resistant to change: the tale of “Aurat March” and the feminist struggle in Pakistan.

Aurat March, Pakistan’s counterpart to Women’s March, takes place each year on International Women’s Day in the country’s most prominent cities, such as Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi.

Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion 65 years later

On 65th Anniversary, Archive Posts Selection of Key CIA and White House Records on Paramilitary Assault and Aftermath. JFK Considered Dismantling CIA After Failed Invasion.

As US Again Threatens Cuba, Bay of Pigs a ‘Cautionary History’.

In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the intelligence agency, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 65th anniversary of the paramilitary assault on Cuba.

Letter to the Editor

Cuba condemns the despicable accusation against the Leader of the Revolution

The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the United States Department of Justice announced on May 20, 2026 and proclaimed for several weeks against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution.