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    Imperialism and the international split of the proletariat

    Originally published: Anti-Imperialist Network on May 2023 by Anti-Imperialist Network Staff (more by Anti-Imperialist Network) (Posted Apr 17, 2026)

    “Capitalism has now singled out a handful (less than one-tenth of the inhabitants of the globe; less than one-fifth at a most “generous” and liberal calculation) of exceptionally rich and powerful states which plunder the whole world simply by “clipping coupons.””

  • The Comprehensive Playbook of Imperialism in Venezuela: An Urgent Note to Understand the Ongoing Imperial Siege

    Originally published: Anti-Imperialist Network (more by Anti-Imperialist Network)

    The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at the hands of U.S. imperialism marks a new and extremely serious escalation in the sustained aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty. Far from being an isolated or exceptional event, this episode is part of a prolonged offensive that combines economic and financial warfare, political […]

  • Western Marxism, Anti-Communism and Imperialism

    Western Marxism, anti-communism and imperialism

    Originally published: Anti-Imperialist Network on December 24, 2024 by Immanuel Ness (more by Anti-Imperialist Network) (Posted Dec 28, 2024)

    Since the 1990s, Western Marxists have replaced imperialism with global capitalism that is untethered to Western imperialism. Western Marxists have also deemed socialist projects as a betrayal of their utopian views rooted in the Hegelian “purity fetish.”

  • What is imperialism?

    What is imperialism?

    Originally published: Anti-Imperialist Network on October 4, 2021 by Anti-Imperialist Network (more by Anti-Imperialist Network) (Posted Oct 08, 2021)

    Towards the common objectives of anti-imperialist struggle.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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