Tag: Political economy
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.
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.
No to Russian Imperialist Aggression, No to US/NATO Interference
Two comrades from India weigh in on the conflagration in Ukraine
Payback Time
Kim Moody argues that the current economic conjuncture is among the most favorable for workers in decades. But might we see the organized militancy required to bring about better working conditions, wages, and contracts?
Continuous Crisis in Lebanon
Over a year after the explosion in Beirut, Joseph Daher explains why Lebanon’s neoliberal sectarian parties are likely to maintain their hegemony.
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.