Author: Ashley Smith

Resisting the Debt System

Ashley Smith interviews Éric Toussaint about the history of the debt system and its new crisis.

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Capitalism

Crisis, Rivalry, and the Fragmentation of Global Capitalism

Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about the system’s seemingly intractable crisis, the looming threat of war between great powers, and the desperate need for international working-class solidarity against militarism.

Anti-capitalism

The Crash after the Sugar Rush

In this interview, Michael Roberts discusses both mainstream and Marxist explanations for the current global slump, and how the left should be responding to it.

Anti-capitalism

Against Putin’s War in Ukraine

Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis about the politics of Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Anti-imperialism

Fighting for Ukrainian Self-Determination

Yuliya Yurchenko situates the ongoing conflict in its broader political economic conflict, arguing for a decolonial approach to understanding the war.

COVID-19

Out of Lockdown and Back into the Long Depression

Ashley Smith interviews Marxist economist Michael Roberts about the deeper reasons for capitalism’s contemporary malaise, the shape and contradictions of the recovery, and debates between Marxists and Keynesians about the ability of government spending to restore growth and profitability to capitalism.

COVID-19

After the Pandemic Slump, What Next?

Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviewed economist Michael Roberts about global economic prospects after the corona crisis.

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