Editing Monthly Review (section)

==MR Online<!--'MRzine' and 'MR Online' redirect here-->==
From 2005 to 2016, ''Monthly Review'' published an associated website, '''MRzine'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->. At its closure, ''Monthly Review'' announced that it would maintain an online archive of the site.<ref name="mrzine">{{cite web |url=http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2017/mr010117.html |title=MR's Upgrade |publisher=Monthly Review |date=December 31, 2016 |access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref>

In 2017, MRzine was replaced by '''MR Online'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->, which is described as "a forum for collaboration and communication between radical activists, writers, and scholars around the world." The site frequently republishes online articles from other sites identified at the start of the post, and followed by a disclaimer by the editors indicating that "''Monthly Review'' does not necessarily adhere to all of the views conveyed in articles republished at MR Online. Our goal is to share a variety of left perspectives that we think our readers will find interesting or useful."<ref name="mronline">{{cite web |url=https://monthlyreview.org/about/#today |title=About Monthly Review |publisher=Monthly Review |date=January 1, 2024 |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref>

===Treatment of Uyghurs in China===
In 2020, MR Online republished the outline of a report by the [[Qiao Collective]], a "diaspora Chinese media collective challenging U.S. aggression on China," that disputed allegations of genocide and slavery in [[Persecution of Uyghurs in China|China's treatment of Uyghur Muslim minorities]] in Xinjiang and suggested that "the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China".<ref name="qiaocollective">{{cite web |url=https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/about |title=About Qiao Collective |publisher=Qiao Collective |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref><ref name="xinjiangrepost">{{cite web |url=https://mronline.org/2020/10/10/xinjiang-a-report-and-resource-compilation/ |title=Xinjiang: A report and resource compilation |publisher=MR Online |date=October 10, 2020 |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref> In response, a leftist organization named [[Critical China Scholars]] wrote an [[open letter]] to ''Monthly Review'' lamenting republication of the report on the ''Monthly Review'' web site. While the authors of the letter acknowledged that the "applicability of terms such as 'genocide' and 'slavery' can be debated," they nonetheless contended that criticizing Western media for "double standards" by pointing out the contrast between harsh condemnation of Chinese human-rights violations in comparative silence or apologies for European and US violations, as well as suggesting that Chinese abuses were less severe than those by Western governments, amount to " agnosticism, let alone denialism, towards what is clearly a shocking infringement on the rights of Xinjiang’s native peoples."  After elaborating on these claims, the authors concluded their letter by expressing hopes that it too would be republished on MR Online, and directing readers to the Critical China Scholars web site.<ref name="criticalchinascholarsletter">{{cite web |url=https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/ |title=Open Letter to Monthly Review on Xinjiang and the Qiao Collective |publisher=position politics |date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=October 25, 2024}}</ref> The lead author of the letter was [[David Brophy (historian)|David Brophy]], a historian of China at the [[University of Sydney]]. [[Darren Byler]], one of the signatories, said he hoped the letter would make it "difficult for leftist 'scholar-activists' to continue to promote Xinjiang-related disinformation."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cockerell |first=Isobel |date=2020-10-22 |title=Leftist defense of persecution of Xinjiang's Uyghurs triggers a fierce response from professors |url=https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/academics-confront-xinjiang-denialism/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=[[Coda Story]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Griffiths |first=James |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1267764906 |title=The Great Firewall of China : How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet |date=2021 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-350-25792-4 |edition=2nd |location=London |pages=321–322 |oclc=1267764906}}</ref>