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About Intan Suwandi

Intan Suwandi is author of Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press, August 2019. She is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review magazine.
  • Suwandi, I. (2019). Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism. New York: Monthly Review Press

    Neoliberalism and Imperialism: Interview with Intan Suwandi

    Originally published: Textum on February 20, 2021 by CANDAŞ AYAN, ULAŞ TAŞTEKİN (more by Textum)  |

    Recent cases of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, such as what happened in Bolivia, can serve as a striking example. International trade and financial institutions such as the Unholy Trinity (largely controlled by the North) also still play a major role in perpetuating imperialist relations between the South and the North.

  • May Day rally, Jakarta 2019 | Risa Krisadhi:Zuma Press:PA Images

    Outsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chains

    Originally published: openDemocracy on August 20, 2019 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    Through their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.

Also By Intan Suwandi in Monthly Review Magazine

  • COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism June 01, 2020
  • The Case for Labor-Led Development February 01, 2020
  • Labor-Value Commodity Chains July 01, 2019
  • Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism March 01, 2019
  • Multinational Corporations and the Globalization of Monopoly Capital July 01, 2016
  • No Reconciliation without Truth December 01, 2015
  • Behind the Veil of Globalization July 01, 2015

Books By Intan Suwandi

  • Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism September 03, 2019

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor Cuban Flag, Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba, 2012

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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