MHI Editorial

4 Years After Crisis Began, New Ideas and New Revolts

Book exposes falling rate of profit while protests threaten economic-political system

December 29, 2011

This month marks the fourth anniversary of the start of an economic crisis that almost brought down the world financial system, and with that, the whole capitalist system. People in the U.S. and most other countries are still suffering in the aftermath. In spite of, or because of, this hardship, new challenges to capitalism have broken out around the world in the form of mass protests and revolts.

What can we understand about the current state of the economy? Can that knowledge help those who are challenging the system?

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Women’s March Deepens Egypt’s Continuing Revolution

February 20, 2012

by Samah Selim The huge December 20 women’s demonstration against Egypt’s military rulers and the brutalization of women protesters seemed to come out of the blue. I saw a notice on Facebook less than 24-hours beforehand. It wasn’t really organized, but arose spontaneously in the...

Oppose Both U.S. and Iranian Governments!

February 9, 2012

MHI members in New York joined a Feb. 4 rally and march against U.S. sanctions and threats of war against Iran—but we went with a statement opposing Iran’s government as well as our own. Our flier was aimed at those anti-war and left groups who insist on not talking about the Iranian...

Russian Social Movement “Alternatives”: Awakened Sense of Dignity

December 19, 2011

By Andrey Kolganov and Aleksandr Buzgalin, reporting from Bolotnaya Square Why, after many years when street politics in Russia were deep-frozen, have citizens again acquired a taste for street actions? After a public rally near Chistie Prudy metro station in inner Moscow drew six or seven...

New Book: The Failure of Capitalist Production

November 9, 2011

The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession by Andrew Kliman Published by Pluto Press, November 2011 Paperback / 256pp. / ISBN-13: 978-0745332390 Read More