CounterSpin interview with Wayne Au on Gates’ educational failure.
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A Marxist theory of music: it’s all in the groove
It is a defence of popular music, but in the first place it is an attempt to explain why the music of our time sounds the way it does.
Has Donald Trump already changed U.S. trade?
Trump is threatening to dismantle the current world trading system, but in his first year US trading patterns show strong continuity with the previous administration.
‘The growth of right-wing forces is ominous’
NOAM AVRAM CHOMSKY is one of the greatest intellectuals in modern times. For the past six decades Chomsky has remained an inspiration for millions of people around the world who fight oppression and injustice and strive for a better world.
Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad
For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines.
Trump’s incoherence reflects a long-term attrition in U.S. power
Vijay Prashad talks about the contradictions of Donald Trump’s policies in the context of emerging multipolarity on the global scene.
Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through Marx, monsters and a queer decolonial lens
Colorlines talks to Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera about their new book, “lo terciario/the tertiary,” which revisits Karl Marx’s “Capital” to examine Puerto Rico’s debt crisis from a queer decolonial lens.
How identity politics has divided the left: an interview with Asad Haider
Identity politics has something for everyone—but not in a good way. In her 2016 election campaign, Hillary Clinton invoked “intersectionality” and “white privilege” as a shallow gesture of allyship to young liberal voters.
Channel the panic into political action
A conversation with Andreas Malm about the impotence of postmodernism in face of climate change and capital’s role in the destruction of nature.
The Specter of Marxism: interview with John Bellamy Foster
There is no doubt that the Marxian theoretical critique of capitalism is more relevant today than ever and is exerting enormous and growing influence in many parts of the world, a mark of the deepening crisis of the system, and the rise of dissent
We’re back in Marx’s story
Last September Aaron Bastani sat down with the world’s leading expert on Karl Marx; David Harvey. They discussed the relevance of Marx today, productivity, China and so much more. Enjoy.
Audacious movements have to start
The following is the second part of the interview with Samir Amin. The first part was published in the Frontline issue dated May 11, 2018.
There is a structural crisis of capitalism
In this in-depth interview conducted in Dakar, Samir Amin speaks on a wide range of topics: globalisation; generalised monopoly capital; the alarming growth of inequality; the role of the state in the neoliberal era; globalisation and delinking; capitalism and modernity; the return of fascism in the contemporary capitalist world, and more.
Communes and workers’ control in Venezuela
To discuss the Venezuelan communes and the new forms of participation, as well as its successes, difficulties and contradictions, Investig’Action interviewed Dario Azzellini.
May Day 2018: Exploitation, NO! Expropriation, NO! Unite for justice!
In view of the historic May Day, May 1st, analysts from Monthly Review, the famous independent socialist magazine, identify tasks the working classes should press with. The following interviews were conducted in early April with John Bellamy Foster, Professor and Editor of Monthly Review; Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus, and one of Monthly Review’s closest associates; […]
