Category: Interview
“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City
This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.
Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis
What caused the SVB failure? Is a larger crisis on the horizon? Michael Roberts talks to Spectre’s Ashley Smith.
Resisting Genocide: The Uyghur Struggle for Justice
Ashley Smith interviews Uyghur activist and human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat on the Chinese state’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjang and beyond.
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.
Inside Sisi’s Prisons: Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s Fight for Freedom
Shireen Akram-Boshar interviews Sharif Kouddous about Egyptian political prisoner and hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Inside the Russian Resistance against Putin’s War
Ashley Smith interviews Sasha, a Russian activist in Feminist Anti-War Resistance
Against Putin’s War in Ukraine
Spectre’s publication manager Ashley Smith interviews Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis about the politics of Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine
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.
Rethinking Japan’s Red Years
Gavin Walker discusses the history and state of Marxist theory in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present day.
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.