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About Alejandro Pedregal

Alejandro Pedregal is a writer, filmmaker and lecturer at Aalto University, Finland.
  • Cuba’s internationalism

    Cuba and Internationalism Under Siege: From the Tricontinental to Today

    Originally published: The Left Views on June 14, 2026 (more by The Left Views)

    The legacy of the Tricontinental lives on in Cuba’s internationalism, even as sanctions continue to constrain the island.

  • Capitalism Is a Flammable System: An Interview with Alejandro Pedregal

    Originally published: Jacobin América Latina on May 14, 2026 (more by Jacobin América Latina)

    “Integrating earth sciences and life sciences is not an external addition to Marxism, but rather a deepening of its own materialist method.”

  • The Comprehensive Playbook of Imperialism in Venezuela: An Urgent Note to Understand the Ongoing Imperial Siege

    Originally published: Anti-Imperialist Network (more by Anti-Imperialist Network)

    The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at the hands of U.S. imperialism marks a new and extremely serious escalation in the sustained aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty. Far from being an isolated or exceptional event, this episode is part of a prolonged offensive that combines economic and financial warfare, political […]

  • A Green New Deal Photo: Anesti Vega, Green New Deal Climate Strike Mural © 2019; Mural: Maluco Studios, September 25 2019, San Francisco

    “Neither liberal nor social democratic policies have a structured approach to understanding imperialism, including its ecological history”

    Alejandro Pedregal and Max Ajl

    Alejandro Pedregal – in conversation with Max Ajl

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    Cinematic time and the accumulation of ecosocial crises

    Originally published: AVEK: The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture on October 5, 2021 (more by AVEK: The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture)  |

    In his essay, researcher and filmmaker Alejandro Pedregal traces back to the early days of cinema. The new art form emerged during a capitalist era which had fundamentally altered our perception of time.

  • Alejandro Pedregal

    Cuban medical internationalism has been a core component of the revolution

    Alejandro Pedregal and Don Fitz

    “If the small economy of Cuba can improve the health of millions of the world’s people, imagine what could be accomplished if America’s enormous productive capacity changed from creating useless and destructive junk to producing what people throughout the world actually need.”

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Alejandro Pedregal

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Alejandro Pedregal

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Alejandro Pedregal

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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