Imperialism
James Doughney — It is hard to avoid thinking that any attempt to airbrush Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’ is a form of avoidance behaviour in the face of awkward but stubborn facts.
Syria, geopolitics and the left
Santiago Alba Rico — The role and bias of this geopolitical obsession becomes very clear as soon as one compares the different attitudes toward Palestine and Syria.
Serbia in 2024: A mirror on capitalism’s global crises
Dmitry Pozhidaev — In 2024, Serbia offered a particularly clear reflection of the three core dimensions of capitalism’s crisis: political, economic and systemic.
Some clarity on imperialism and anti-imperialism today — A response to Steve Ellner
Greg Godels argues that the road to defeating imperial aggression — US or any other — is to win the working class to the fight with a class-oriented program that attacks the roots of imperialism: capitalism.
Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle
Hamza Hamouchene explores the impact of Vietnam and Algeria on Palestinian resistance, shedding light on their shared struggle against colonial oppression and continuing inspiration to the world.
Ashley Smith explores the practical implications of the rise of China for socialists and activists fighting for a better and more just world today.
Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
Ilya Matveev: ‘Lenin’s theory only goes part of the way towards explaining Russian imperialism’
Ilya Matveev — Ideology is the crucial factor in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which cannot be accounted for simply with reference to contradictions of capital accumulation or geopolitics.
Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of ‘reactionary acceleration’
Jaime Pastor — An increasingly authoritarian neoliberalism is spreading, not only in the South but increasingly in the North, with the threat of a “reactionary acceleration”.
The logic of imperialism’s ‘Maritime Great Game’ in the Southeast Asian Sea
Rasti Delizo — A fresh inter-imperialist conflict is mounting in the form of a ‘Maritime Great Game’, and it is swiftly accelerating across the Southeast Asian Sea.
Robert Brenner — The theory of imperialism put forward by Vladimir Lenin to end World War I remains, if properly qualified, the best point of departure for understanding imperialism today.
Steve Ellner lays out his views on anti-US imperialism, how this should factor into the left’s appraisal of China and Latin America’s Pink Tide governments, and what this means for international solidarity activists.