{"id":263,"date":"2026-07-11T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:12:43","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display is-style-text-display--1 wp-block-paragraph\">Monthly Review Press is the book publishing wing of the socialist magazine <em><a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/\">Monthly Review<\/a><\/em>. In 1952, a few years after the magazine&#8217;s founding in New York City, the Press published its first title, I. F. Stone\u2019s&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/9781685900083\/\">Hidden History of the Korean War<\/a><\/em>. In the decades since, we have released books that express a critical but spirited socialism, independent of any political organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b748e1e0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/9781685900083\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781685900083.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Hidden History of the Korean War by I. F. Stone\" class=\"wp-image-274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781685900083.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781685900083.jpg?w=298&amp;ssl=1 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/9781583671757\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781583671757.jpg?resize=206%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fanshen by William Hinton\" class=\"wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781583671757.jpg?resize=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monthlyreviewpress.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781583671757.jpg?w=298&amp;ssl=1 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display is-style-text-display--2 wp-block-paragraph\">Among our authors have been:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>major scholars of racism, colonialism, and imperialism, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=samir-amin\">Samir Amin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=james-boggs\">James Boggs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=aime-cesaire\">Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire<\/a>, Oliver Cromwell Cox, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/w-e-b-dubois\/\">W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=arghiri-emmanuel\">Arghiri Emmanuel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=eduardo-galeano\">Eduardo Galeano<\/a>, Mahmood Mamdani, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=kwame-nkrumah\">Kwame Nkrumah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/prabhat-patnaik\/\">Prabhat Patnaik<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/utsa-patnaik\/\">Utsa Patnaik<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=vijay-prashad\">Vijay Prashad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=john-smith\">John Smith<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=intan-suwandi\">Intan Suwandi<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=walter-rodney\">Walter Rodney<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>leading political economists, including <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=paul-a-baran\">Paul A. Baran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=harry-braverman\">Harry Braverman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=andre-gunder-frank\">Andre Gunder Frank<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=ursula-huws\">Ursula Huws<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=michal-kalecki\">Michal Kalecki<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=harry-magdoff\">Harry Magdoff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=ernest-mandel\">Ernest Mandel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=michael-perelman\">Michael Perelman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=paul-m-sweezy\">Paul Sweezy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=immanuel-m-wallerstein\">Immanuel M. Wallerstein<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=michael-d-yates\">Michael Yates<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>feminist analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=johanna-brenner\">Johanna Brenner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=gita-sen\">Gita Sen<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marxist theorists and commentators <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=nikolai-bukharin\">Nikolai Bukharin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=hal-draper\">Hal Draper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=john-bellamy-fosterhttps:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=john-bellamy-foster\">John Bellamy Foster<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=michael-heinrich\">Michael Heinrich<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=karl-korsch\">Karl Korsch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=domenico-losurdo\">Domenico Losurdo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/9781583671030\/\">Rosa Luxemburg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/9781583672457\/\">Jos\u00e9 Carlos Mari\u00e1tegui<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=istvan-meszaros\">Istv\u00e1n M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=ellen-meiksins-wood\">Ellen Meiksins Wood<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>philosophers <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=louis-althusser\">Louis Althusser<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=michael-lowy\">Michael L\u00f6wy<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>scholars of ecology <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=ian-angus\">Ian Angus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=brett-clark\">Brett Clark<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=fred-magdoff\">Fred Magdoff<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=kohei-saito\">Kohei Saito<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>radical historians <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=gerald-horne\">Gerald Horne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=hans-koning\">Hans Koning<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=e-p-p-thompson\">E. P. Thompson<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the anthropologist <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=eleanor-burke-leacock\">Eleanor Burke Leacock<\/a> and biologists <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=richard-levins\">Richard Levins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=richard-lewontin\">Richard Lewontin<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=daniel-singer\">Daniel Singer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=i-f-stone\">I. F. Stone<\/a>, and the media and communication scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?keyword=McChesney\">Robert W. McChesney<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>activists and revolutionary leaders such as <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=anne-braden\">Anne Braden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=amilcar-cabral\">Amilcar Cabral<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/esther-farmer\/\">Esther Farmer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=che-guevara\">Che Guevara<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=william-hinton\">William Hinton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/rosalind-pollack-petchesky\/\">Rosalind Pollack Petchesky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/helena-sheehan\/\">Helena Sheehan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/author\/sarah-sills\/\">Sarah Sills<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=mao-tse-tung\">Mao Tse-Tung<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and <a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/search-results\/?contributor=albert-einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display is-style-text-display--3 wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we are known internationally for our&nbsp;pioneering analyses of political economy, imperialism, ecosocialism, and struggles in the global South, drawing on the rich legacy of Marxist thought without being bound to any narrow view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monthly Review Press is the book publishing wing of the socialist magazine Monthly Review. 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