imperialism
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Trump is the symptom, U.S. imperialism is the disease
Popular resistance to the Trump administration’s erratic, anti-people, and dangerous domestic and foreign policies is growing every day as seen with the massive demonstrations held throughout the country on and after April 5. We welcome these protests and the popular demands raised by them, but we must criticize significant flaws that block the political changes… Continue reading
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The global communist resurgence, capital’s great crackdown, & the era of civil wars that we’ll need to navigate
We are in the transitional stage between when the USA started off its own demise, and when the global working class has won its final victory. Washington was the true loser of the Cold War; its self-destructive imperial schemes guaranteed that the U.S. would keep losing influence, and that communism would keep rising. Continue reading
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Trump vows to ‘expand’ US territory, invokes Manifest Destiny, hints at military force in Panama & Greenland
At his inauguration, US President Donald Trump promised to “expand our territory”, invoked the colonialist “Manifest Destiny”, and vowed to take over the Panama Canal (falsely claiming China runs it). Continue reading
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Hyperimperialism, the Fall of Syria & Capitalist Gangsters w/ Vijay Prashad
From California’s wildfires and the failures of capitalism to regime change in Syria, the weakening of Palestinian resistance, and rising U.S.-China tensions, this conversation unpacks the pressing global crises and their deeper implications. Continue reading
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Trump New Imperial Fury or the New U.S. Lebensraum?
Trump’s renewed fury to take possession of Canada, Greenland and the control of the Panama Canal is the utmost meaning of American imperialism. As before WWI and in the Nazi regime, the U.S. seems to have entered the late stage of its imperial hubris. Continue reading
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Anti-Imperialism and the Tricontinental Vocation
Tricontinentalism is the lens through which we should analyze the anti-imperialist movement, not only to understand the past but to build the movement against imperialist domination today. Continue reading
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The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left
It is a sign of the depth of the structural crisis of capital in our time that not since the onset of the First World War and the dissolution of the Second International—during which nearly all of the European social democratic parties joined the interimperialist war on the side of their respective nation-states—has the split… Continue reading
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Collapsing Empire: China and Russia Checkmate US Military
On July 29th, Pentagon-funded “think tank” RAND Corporation published a landmark appraisal of the state of the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and current US military readiness, produced by a Congress-created Commission of “non-governmental experts in national security.” Its findings are stark, an unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the Empire’s bloated, decaying… Continue reading
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Episode 5 – Israel’s Quest for Wider War
In this episode, recorded a day after the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1, Chelsey and Andrew discuss the escalating war and crisis in the Middle East, including the expanded war in Lebanon, the potential Israeli response to Iran, the views of Arab regimes, America’s interests in Israel as an outpost of… Continue reading
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Zionism’s collapse, Washington’s plans for global destruction, & the anti-imperialist struggle’s next stage
Zionism and U.S. hegemony are doomed to keep declining; this means that the decisive question of the 21st century is how the anti-imperialist bloc will choose to usher in the post-American era. Will the powers which challenge the U.S. refrain from serious military action against the USA and the Zionist entity? Or will they take… Continue reading
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Imperialism’s Striving for Expansion
THE “inevitable striving of finance capital”, Lenin had written in Imperialism, (is) “to enlarge its spheres of influence and even its actual territory”. He was writing of course in a world marked by inter-imperialist rivalry, where this striving took the form of a competitive struggle between rival finance capitals that speedily completed the partitioning of… Continue reading
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The UN’s abject failure has one primary cause – Western imperialism
The world is being pushed to the abyss of a Third World War, one that could bring the final destruction of the planet and humanity. Continue reading
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Selective Democracy: U.S. Hegemony and Global Consequences
The United States often claims to promote democracy and human rights, but its actions reveal a deeper agenda of spreading global hegemony, exposing the hypocrisy in its foreign policy. A glaring example is the Biden- Harris administration’s simultaneous rhetoric of humanitarian concern and unwavering support for Israel, despite the latter’s ongoing military actions in Gaza.… Continue reading
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Will the West’s greed and hatred lead to the end of the world?
It can certainly be said that the risk for nuclear war is far greater today than it was less a year ago. Ever since the conflict in Ukraine began, the collective West and its vassals, also known as the “international community” have been engaged in a hybrid war against Russia, stopping just short of direct… Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: Stealing a nation and how ‘international rules’ don’t apply if it is the US or UK
One of John Pilger’s most remarkable documentaries, bringing a little-known story to a wide audience, is Stealing a Nation, about how British governments ruthlessly expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a crown colony in the Indian Ocean, in the late 1960s and early 70s to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the… Continue reading
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The Intricate Fight For Africa: The Legacy of the Soviet Union vs Western Colonialism
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia’s relations with the continent, but in the global power struggle involving the US, Europe, China, India, Turkey and others. Continue reading
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Africa, China, and US Imperialism
This important essay by US scholar Joel Wendland-Liu, originally published on the CPUSA website, provides a serious and detailed comparison of the US-Africa relationship and the China-Africa relationship. Referencing numerous recent studies indicating that Africans – and particularly younger Africans – have a more favorable opinion of China than of the US, the author contrasts the West’s… Continue reading
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Europe’s Third Attempt at Suicide and Generation Z+
Europe is a serial suicide. The first attempt began in Sarajevo in 1914 and finished in Versailles in 1919. The second began a generation later in Warsaw in 1939 and ended in Berlin in 1945. Having very nearly succeeded at the second attempt (it missed atomic bombs by mere months), Europe sobered up and slowed… Continue reading
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Calls by Western Socialists for a Russian Retreat from Ukraine Amount to De Facto Support for NATO Aggression
On May 11, the online news journal Mediapart in France interviewed Olivier Besancenot following his recent return from a fact-finding mission to Ukraine. The interview was translated into English and published in a French Trotskyist journal that publishes in English and French. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 