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Imperialism in the 21st centuryThe renewal of interest in the study of imperialism has changed the debate on globalisation, previously centred exclusively on the critique of neo-liberalism and on the new features of globalisation. A concept developed by the main Marxist theorists of the 20th century - which enjoyed a wide diffusion in the 1970s - has again attracted the attention of analysts because of the aggravation of the social crisis of the Third World, the multiplication of armed conflicts and the deadly competition among countries. -> read article... |
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| Review
Empire and Revolution Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, ’Empire’ (Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000).
Empire is a paradox. An overly long (478 pages with notes and index), often abstruse intellectual exercise, Empire would appear to be a work destined to obscurity-to be read, at best, by small groups of left-wing intellectuals ensconced in academia. However, the book has attracted enormous attention, not only in the academy, but also in the mainstream press and among anti-capitalist and global justice activists in both the US and Europe. -> read article... |
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| War Drive
Philippines: fighting military globalisationHarry Tubongbanwa of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Mindanao looks at the background to the current US military intervention in his country. -> read article... |
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