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Reports suggest the U.S. economy may be on the verge of another financial crisis, with major problems in the $3 trillion private credit market. Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers of Wall Street’s Ponzi schemes.

There is a Cuban community residing in the United States to which we must also provide opportunities both in the United States and in our country; an American public that could visit Cuba.

Our political system is not the one that prevents us from moving forward. I repeat that the blame lies with the blockade imposed by the United States government.

What emerges in Vida Café is not simply a set of solutions to a moment of crisis. It’s the outline of a different logic: one in which production, infrastructure, and care are organized by the people themselves, and where the capacity to respond to immediate needs opens onto the possibility of something more.

Ian Angus was interviewed by noted Marxist economist Michael Roberts about Angus’s new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Interview with Mimi, mother of Daniel from the Ulm 5.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, recently gave an interview to Spanish political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión on the digital platform Canal Red, which was broadcast on the program Mesa Redonda.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is altering the geopolitical order, and could cause a global economic crisis. Economist Michael Hudson discusses the shock in the oil market and Tehran’s challenge to U.S. dominance.

As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment.

CounterSpin interview with Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib justice.

An interview with Ana Hurtado by Oriol Sabata.

There is no coherent and sustained leftist movement at the very moment that U.S. led global fascism is accelerating.

Michael Hudson: “Well, I’d originally planned when you suggested talking about US foreign policy. I was going to go through my usual approach, which we’ve discussed, starting in the Bronze Age for, debt and debt financial policy and say, well, here’s how American foreign policy has evolved.”

An interview with Rama Salla Dieng

“We understood that producing green coffee was not enough. The only solution was to advance toward control over the entire production process.”

This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre’s renewed engagement with the PCF was neither nostalgic nor opportunistic but grounded in his conviction that Marxism required continual theoretical renegotiation if it was to remain capable of grasping contemporary reality.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics out there. And for a good reason. AI is transforming industries and everyday life.

“We asked ourselves: if coffee shapes our culture as growers, if it organizes our daily life, and if we already cooperate in so many ways, why shouldn’t we also come together economically?”

We publish the collective interview with the New York group Cycling x Solidarity NYC, inspired by the similar group in Chicago.

Interview with John Bellamy Foster on his new book, “Breaking the bonds of fate, Epicurus and Marx Epicurus”.