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Category: Anti-imperialism
What the DSA International Committee’s Ukraine Statement Gets Wrong
The DSA International Committee statement on Ukraine rightly criticizes NATO but is silent on Russia’s role in the current crisis
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Half-Apology for Apartheid?
Linfield’s The Lions’ Den reads like an intervention toward holding back the encouraging tide of pro-Palestinian awareness.
Russian Imperialism and Its Monopolies
It is widely accepted that the accelerating rivalry between the great powers—the United States, China, the European Union, Russia, and Japan—is a key feature of world politics and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it urgent for . . .
Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
La Botz analyzes the pseudo anti-imperialist character of campism and calls for genuine internationalism of workers against imperialism.
We Who Are in Prison Escape Every Day
Students and Women Organizing Against Israeli Occupation: An Interview with Layan Kayed
Layan Kayed, who was imprisoned by Israel for her activism, discusses organizing by students and women.
Left Antisemitism and Consistent Democracy
A Reply to Daniel Fischer
Daniel Randall responds to Daniel Fischer’s review of his book Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists.
Overcoming Left Antisemitism
An Anti-Zionist’s Review of Confronting Antisemitism on the Left
Left antisemitism is all too real, has especially strong roots in Stalinism, and functions as a dangerous frame for conspiratorial thinking.
The United States and Russia Struggle over Ukraine. War on the Horizon?
Both U.S. President Joseph Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have invoked their nations’ imperial histories and current ambitions, using the Ukraine as the occasion to reassert their claims to dominate Eastern Europe.
Afghanistan and Its Challenge to Feminism
How should anti-imperialists relate to the coming to power of the misogynist Taliban regime in Afghanistan?
“That’s So F**king Imperialistic”: Responding to a Supporter of Cuba’s Government
Whatever a genuinely anti-imperialist approach toward Cuba might look like, it cannot be to rally behind a regime that denies Cubans some of their most basic rights.
An Especially Shameful Episode in Zionist History
We need to know all this history and lots more about Zionist leaders’ dealings with Jew haters so we can immediately confront and neutralize Zionist slander the next time they falsely cry “antisemitism.”
Beyond Tragedy: Postscript on Kronstadt at 100
To avoid repeating the Kronstadt tragedy, and to build toward principled world revolution, we can commit to organizing transnational solidarity and speaking out against all forms of authoritarian repression.
Are Tankie Politics Racist?
Ani White and Gayaal Iddamalgoda argue that so-called “tankie” politics, meaning support for “actually-existing socialist” and “anti-imperialist” states, erase struggles in the Global South.
21st Century Internationalism of the Oppressed
A Comradely Response to Ajamu Baraka
How does one understand the question of the internationalism of the oppressed? In order to answer this, there are two basic principles we start with: (1) a concrete analysis of concrete conditions, and (2) the law and nature of contradictions.
Afghanistan – Don’t Look Away: A Crisis for the Whole of Humanity
The defeat of the U.S. and the seizure of power by the Taliban mark a real turning point. This reveals both imperialism and fundamentalism as obstacles to human emancipation.
U.S. Imperialism in Afghanistan and Beyond
For the family members of the victims, the 9/11 attacks were a tragedy, but for the Bush administration and the U.S. ruling class, they were a golden opportunity.
Settler Colonialism, Not a Nation of Immigrants
Review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
We Anti-Zionists Speak for a Quarter of U.S. Jews
The newest poll numbers show that a quarter of U.S. Jews fundamentally oppose the Zionist project.
On behalf of the New Politics editorial board
NP on Cuba: Consistent Opposition to US Imperialism and Support of Democratic Rights
We welcome the opportunity to clarify misrepresentations of New Politics editorial stance about Cuba and US imperialism.
The Failure of American Empire Lite
The only thing “lite” about American empire turned out to be a dogged unwillingness to accept any culpability in using power to try and remake the world, instead insisting that the exercise of violence could be innocent as long as the right people were doing it.
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