Subjects Archives: Imperialism

It was the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, later to be renamed Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that was enacted by the UPA-I government under Left pressure (since the government depended on Left support).

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.

The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population.

204 Atomic Bombs, 66 Urban Areas. “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”

Professor Leibowitz was raised as an Orthodox Jew and remained one throughout his life. I had become observant barely a decade earlier and was drawn to this brilliant polymath—a deeply committed Judaic scholar and a fearless critic of oppression and injustice. I was eager to understand his views on science, Judaism, and Zionism.

Sixty-five years ago today (13 August), the “Berlin Wall” was erected.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

Former Conindustria President Luigi Pisella, who is also a member of the Venezuelan government-created Special Commission for the Evaluation and Classification of Public Assets, has revealed that Washington retained approximately U.S. $4.7 billion of Venezuela’s oil-export income during the first half of 2026 as “payment” for the U.S. military operation that resulted in the January 3 bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

As Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson push this project through, they are continuing to make the people of Chicago complicit in war crimes across the globe.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

“Israel” is deliberately setting fires across southern Lebanon, destroying woodlands, olive groves and farmland while threatening ecosystems and forcing communities from their land.

One year ago today, Donald Trump launched a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. intended to soft-launch martial law and pacify a city with a deep revolutionary history.

Though it is striving to fulfill the White House’s demand for more arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still falling short of the Trump administration’s announced goal of 2,000 arrests per day.

Nuuk states that the landing of the drilling equipment was never authorized, even as the energy company plans to begin drilling in October.