Imperialism
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Priming the Philippines for a ‘globalized NATO’
Rasti Delizo critically examines the foreign policy of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and its role in a globalized NATO which seeks to expand to the Asia-Pacific region in its imperial contest with China.
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Why ‘developing countries’ are trapped in a new debt crisis
Eric Toussaint — The World Bank report on the debts of “developing countries,” published on December 13, 2023, reveals an alarming fact: in 2022, developing countries as a whole spent a record US$443.5 billion to pay for their external public debt.
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Putin’s Russia and peripheral imperialism
Why is Russian aggression in Ukraine imperialist? How is it possible to interpret it based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, and how do these interpretations differ? Social researcher Anatoly Kropivnitskyi delves into the political economy of empires.
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In the convergence of crises, the challenge is to take forward the workers and the people
Ana Cristina Carvalhaes — The multiplication of wars and the aggravation of tensions between states and intra-states are only one of the signs of the new historical period of convergence of crises, opened with the crash of 2008.
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Ukrainian activists declare solidarity with Palestine
Leftists in Ukraine are insisting on the urgent need to build solidarity without exception among oppressed peoples.
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(Video) International (in)security: building solidarity in a rupturing world?
Russia's invasion of Ukraine exposed a deepening crisis of international security.
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Palestine and Ukraine: How the 21st century empires wage war
Simon Pirani — Israel’s murderous onslaught on civilians is something that Israel’s war on the Palestinians and Russia’s war on Ukraine have in common. This is what empires do in the 21st century: the western empire that supports Israel and the weaker Russian empire.