Federico Fuentes

Venezuelan workers

Defending Venezuela’s sovereignty from a working-class perspective

Salvador De León looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade unions, the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies, and defending sovereignty from a working-class perspective.
End of globalisation graphic

Long wave theory, globalisation’s end, and the coming crises: An interview with William Jefferies

William Jefferies explores the usefulness of long wave theory for understanding the current moment, how globalisation reshaped the world economy, and the coming period of crisis.
book cover Fiery Red

For an ecommunist alternative to degrowth and ‘luxury’ communism

Esteban Mercatante explains how capitalism is at the root of a “multidimensional” ecological crisis, and the need for an ecommunist strategy that takes us beyond the degrowth/ecomodernism divide.
Russia China US

New imperialist powers, capitalist unipolarity and proletarian internationalism: An interview with Rasti Delizo (Part II)

Rasti Delizo explains the rise of new imperialist powers and faulty logic behind multipolarity, and argues for an anti-imperialism rooted in working-class solidarity.
Lenin and imperialism

Lenin’s theory of imperialism, the modern capitalist world system and revolutionary communist struggle today: An interview with Rasti Delizo (Part I)

Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevancy of Lenin’s theory of imperialism while outlining subsequent developments that need to be factored in.
Kevin Anderson Late Marx

Late Marx on colonialism, gender and indigenous communism: An interview with Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson delves into Karl Marx’s final writings to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today.
sinking US dollar

Could Trump’s tariff war reshape global capitalism? An interview with Marxist economist Sam Gindin

Sam Gindin breaks down US President Donald Trump’s on-again/off-again tariffs, their impacts on US-led globalised capitalism, and what a working-class response could look like
Trump tariffs

Behind Trump’s spiralling tariff war: An interview with Marxist economist Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, how they fit into his broader project to reassert US global hegemony, and what a left response could look like.   
oil rig

Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.
Painting over Yes to Peace

‘Even silence is viewed as dissent’: An interview with Russian trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin

Pavel Kudyukin discusses the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia, the differing stances among Russian leftists towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the campaigns to free political prisoners held in Russian jails.
Denys Pilash

‘The left should support a just peace for Ukraine, not a Trump-Putin deal to appease the aggressor’: An interview with Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash

Denys Pilash discusses the implications of the shift in US policy towards Russia, the threat posed by the rising global axis of extreme reaction, and the need for a renewed internationalism that opposes all oppressors.
An opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government steps on an election campaign poster with the image of Maduro during a protest at the Petare neighborhood in Caracas on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election.

‘Maduro has done tremendous damage to the left’: An interview with Atenea Jiménez (Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, Venezuela)

Atenea Jiménez explains the origins and objectives of the Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, how the new Donald Trump presidency might impact Venezuelan politics and the need for solidarity with Venezuela’s left.

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