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“Marx’s Ethical Vision”: A conversation with Vanessa Wills (Keywords: morality; alienation; revolution; freedom; humanism )
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (OT): There is a deep and abiding ethical impulse under the political commitments that Marxism is associated with: socialism, communism and the fight against capitalism. When you ask people who are swimming in one of those seas what they’re up to and why, they give what sounds to me—as an analytically trained moral philosopher—like moral explanations: they think there’s something wrong with capitalism, something inappropriate about the way the system treats people.
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Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and resisting authoritarianism
We can hope that social strikes will not be necessary to limit and ultimately end MAGA tyranny.
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How Relevant Is Marx’s Analysis of Communal Society in the World today? An Interview with John Bellamy Foster
Hoel Le Moal: Marx seems to have been obsessed with the question of communal property throughout his life. In your article “Marx and Communal Society for the July-August 2025 issue of Monthly Review, you quote Marx in his Grundrisse as saying that “as a member of the commune, the individual is the private proprietor” of a “particular plot of land.
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‘Is it worth running a race where the prize is some dystopian future?’
CounterSpin interview with Mitch Jones on AI vs. environment.
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Puerto Rico, U.S. imperialism and Venezuela’s defiant sovereignty: A conversation with Déborah Berman Santana
From the heart of the U.S. colony, a geographer and activist explains that Washington’s “new” security strategy looks a great deal like the old one.
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‘We should determine our own future’: Interview with Sudanese Communist Party
Sudan’s Communists hope that their “comrades in the world Communist movement will answer that call,” Saied said, and “do whatever they can to build an international movement to help win peace in Sudan and open the path for our people to decide our own future, free of interference and war.
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Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine Is MAGA Imperialism: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster
This is the second part of a two-part interview with Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for Italy’s OttolinaTV. Watch the first part here.
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Why MAGA Is Not Working Class: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was recently interviewed on Italy’s OttolinaTV. Read the accompanying note below, and watch a video of the conversation here. In this first part of a two-part interview with Prof. John Bellamy Foster, we analyze the MAGA phenomenon from a materialist perspective, highlighting the main social composition of the classes […]
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The power imbalance at the root of the H-2A Farmworker Visa program
ACoM recently reported on an immigration raid in Santa Maria, California, involving a U.S. citizen believed to be at the center of a visa fraud ring.
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Geopolitics, resistance and the battle for Venezuela: A conversation with Atilio Borón
Political theorist Borón provides a comprehensive analysis of Washington’s new military activity in the Caribbean and how to resist it.
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An Insider Critique of the Imperial Theory Industry: Gabriel Rockhill Interviewed by Michael Yates
Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He earned PhDs at Paris 8 University and Emory University. An accomplished scholar, he has published works for many outlets, both in the United States and in France. He is the editor of the English edition of Domenico Losurdo’s book Western Marxism: How It Was Born, […]
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What is really happening in Venezuela? U.S. attacks and economic situation explained
An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of U.S. sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.
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The fight to end Minneapolis’s use of Israeli surveillance technology
Goonin: We had a petition for people to sign, expressing their opposition to the contract, and we collected more than 2,000 signatures.
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A conversation with Kathryn Bigelow, director of ‘A House of Dynamite,’ and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim
In the pantheon of movies about nuclear catastrophe, the emotional power of A House of Dynamite is rivalled, to my way of thinking, only by Fail Safe, in which Henry Fonda, as an American president, must drop the bomb on New York City to atone for a mistaken U.S. attack on Moscow and stave off all-out nuclear war.
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‘The Imperialist Offensive is Nothing New for the Bolivarian Revolution’: A Conversation with Ana Maldonado
A Chavista organizer examines the U.S. militarization of the Caribbean and the Bolivarian Revolution’s enduring resistance to imperial aggression.
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“Techno-Feudalism” Is a Myth: John Bellamy Foster on Capitalism, MAGA, and China
What defines global capitalism today?
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Capitalism and Colonialism: How Modern Canada Was Made
An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.
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Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström
We have all the evidence that the solutions are scalable, and [if we act decisively] we would become winners in terms of modernity, security, peace and health, but also in terms of equity.
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‘It’s a privilege to encourage our generation like the musicians that came before us: Nina Simone, Max Roach, Charles Mingus’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to U.S. pianist Paul Cornish.
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A Geopolitical Analysis of the Imperialist Buildup Against Venezuela: A conversation with Ana Esther Ceceña
Natural resources and strategic alliances are important to understanding why Venezuela is in the eye of the storm.
