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The Bloody Rise of the West – Part I
ON Independence Day–August 15th–we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world.
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The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future (Part 1)
As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its sixth month, Qiao Collective presents an urgent intervention from Charles Xu on the Palestinian resistance and the place of China, its people, and their revolutionary legacy in the global solidarity movement.
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Venezuela, the decolonial alternative: A conversation with Ramón Grosfoguel (Part I)
A distinguished author from the decolonial tradition discusses the relationship between colonialism and imperialism.
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The hand of God in Uganda – Part 1
President Biden condemned anti-gay laws in Uganda but forgot to blame the actual guilty party.
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The conspicuous absence of Derrick Bell—rethinking the CRT debate, Part 1
Bell levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
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Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)
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Commodity cod & factory ships
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
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From the BRICS countries to the townships: racial and social segregation continues
Over 25 years ago now the people of South Africa won the struggle to end the Apartheid regime. Nevertheless, even though it is now against the law, de facto racial segregation is still apparent.
