Tag: Colonialism
![Kathryn Updegraff, Hadja showing me [Kathryn] how a hand grenade is held, August 1957, The Degraff/Updegraff Archive.](https://spectrejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/algeria-5.png)
Lost History
The work and life of Kathryn Mathews Updegraff (1926–2018) has been untold for sixty-eight years. Her work captures a layered politics of resistance in Algeria—where women’s labor, both visible and concealed, formed the backbone of a revolutionary struggle too often narrated without them.
On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story
Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism’s, and in particular Vivek Chibber’s, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.
The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World”
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the “feed-the-world” approaches to feed security.
The Politics of Colonial Comparison
Sam Klug discusses his new book with Spectre’s Zachary Levenson, which chronicles how the rhetoric of colonialism became central to Black internationalism in the United States.
Black Reconstruction in Palestine
Geo Maher makes the case for solidarity between abolitionist struggles in the United States and struggles for Palestinian liberation.
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Camila Valle writes about the life and resistance of Shuhada’ Sadaqat/Sinéad O’Connor and the forces that shaped her, from colonialism to the Catholic Church.
Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of Nakba
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, Amanda Batarseh explores the works of Palestinian writers Mourid Barghouti and Radwa Ashour.
From Taiwan to Ukraine
Wen Liu and Brian Hioe explain how the struggle for self-determination in Ukraine can shed light on the Taiwanese struggle against China’s ongoing colonial domination.