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About Andy Higginbottom

Andy Higginbottom is an Associate Professor at Kingston University, London where he teaches on slavery and emancipation, the crimes of the powerful, and international political economy. Andy takes a general interest in movements fighting extractivism, neocolonialism and oppression. He is active in support of social movements in Colombia, South Africa and Eelam Tamils. His current research projects are a dialogue with Marx's Capital concerning the theorisation of U.S. cotton slavery and British industrial capitalism; and an exploration of Marini's concept of labour super-exploitation with Marx's theory of surplus-value. He can be contacted at a.higginbottom [at] kingston.ac.uk.
  • Mapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage

    Andy Higginbottom and Marcos Roitman Rosenmann

    Nine political prisoners of the Mapuche people in southern Chile have been on hunger strike since November 27. Now, their protest has reached a dangerous and crucial moment.

  • Source: https://www.latindadd.org/2022/05/10/mineria-en-peru-ganancia-extraordinaria-2021-libre-de-impuesto/

    Peru and capitalist extraction–the imperial mining powers behind the throne

    Andy Higginbottom

    As a rainbow of social movements in Peru prepare for a general strike starting on 4 January the country is polarised between party politicians’ intrigues and action of the masses on the streets. 

  • Photo: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images

    The roots of Colombia’s crisis 2021

    Originally published: Colombia Solidarity Campaign on May 17, 2021 (more by Colombia Solidarity Campaign)

    There has been a social explosion of the Colombian people against poverty and repression. President Duque’s ‘tax reform’ package was the last straw that broke their patience.

  • Oil price collapse and the crisis

    Oil price collapse & the crisis

    Andy Higginbottom

    Is oil a stranded asset? Or is the system defunct? This thought-provoking talk was given by Andy Higginbottom, Associate Professor in the Politics Department of Kingston University in Britain. In this talk he looks at Marx’s theory of rent as surplus profit and its parallels within the oil markets.

  • Wretched of the Earth contingent on People’s Climate March of Justice and Jobs

    Global Britain’s Real Climate Changers: Big Oil Must Be Taken Down

    Andy Higginbottom

    There is no global social unity in the face of climate disaster. Yet we need a genuinely internationalist rebellion against the corporations at the extractive imperialist heart of British capitalism. Their extinction as a species is required to save the planet.

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