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Algeria: Colonisation and racism

Édouard Soulier, Louisa D — 2025-03-19T09:40:34Z

Jean-Michel Apathie, a well-known French mainstream columnist, was suspended from the RTL television channel on 5 March after pointing out that France had committed massacres during the colonisation of Algeria.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / France, Algeria, Imperialism

In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961

Éric Toussaint — 2025-01-27T21:19:11Z

On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).

- Features / Belgium, Historical events and figures, Debt, Congo, Imperialism

Imperialism as Antagonistic Cooperation

Promise Li — 2024-11-20T20:20:25Z

In the months before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's uneasy visit to Beijing last year, the CEOs of J.P. Morgan, Starbucks, Apple, General Motors, and Tesla had amiable meetings with former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Reaffirming what Xi Jinping and other Chinese ministers have declared on an annual basis, Qin assured Elon Musk that China “remain[s] committed to fostering a better market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment.” [1]

- Features / United States (USA), Brazil, Marxism, Economy, China, Imperialism

Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of “reactionary acceleration”

Jaime Pastor — 2024-11-20T20:20:18Z

Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump's recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have been established since the end of the Second World War. The most tragic manifestation of this crisis (which calls into question even the future of the UN) is found in the genocidal war against Gaza (Awad, 2024), to which are currently added around 56 wars across the planet.

- Features / Palestine, World, Ukraine, Imperialism

Marx's anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world

Federico Fuentes, Kevin B Anderson — 2024-09-11T10:04:42Z

Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin's writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.

- Features / Marxism, Imperialism

State of the world: economic crisis and geopolitical rivalries

Claude Serfati — 2024-09-09T11:07:00Z

My interpretation of the current situation is based on the hypothesis that the global space is being transformed under the dual pressure of economic dynamics and geopolitical rivalries, the interactions between which differ according to historical circumstances.

- IV596-September 2024 / Economy, Imperialism

Capitalism carries war and authoritarianism like the cloud carries the storm...

Thomas Rid — 2024-05-01T07:35:17Z

“War on war! Solidarity and freedom for all peoples! Freedom for Palestine! Freedom for Ukraine! More anti-capitalist and internationalist than ever! That's what we'll be saying on 1 May.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / France, Imperialism

Making sense of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Paul Le Blanc — 2023-12-21T11:37:54Z

A momentous development has drawn my attention away from the unfolding climate catastrophe on which I have been riveted. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a major factor fragmenting the left-wing forces I hoped would become a major force in the revolutionary struggle for climate justice and human survival.

- Features / Russia, Ukraine, Imperialism

“Opposing US militarisation in the Asia-Pacific should not mean remaining silent on China's emerging imperialism“

Au Loong-Yu — 2023-12-09T06:07:00Z

“Genuine socialists should be people-centred. If someone refuses to see how the CCP treats Chinese working people, and is content with repeating Beijing's propaganda or refuses to listen to the voices of working people, then I would say they are not genuinely socialists.”

- IV587 - December 2023 / China, Taiwan, Imperialism

The Left and Ukraine: Anti-Imperialism or Alter-Imperialism?

Rafael Bernabe — 2023-11-19T11:14:39Z

“But it must be underlined that the Russian and Chinese governments respond, not as anti-imperialist forces, but rather with their own plans for control and dominance.”

- Features / Ukraine, Imperialism