Tag: Imperialism
In the Belly of the Beast
Aaron Boehmer reflects on the aesthetics of war and empire in relation to Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan.
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future
Cihan Tuğal looks at the interplay between HTS’s movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics to analyze the prospects for Syria’s future.
The UAE’s Subimperialism in Sudan
Husam Mahjoub analyzes the role of counterrevolutionary subimperial agents—in this case, the UAE—and their imperialist enablers in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
One Should Not Camouflage Capitalist and Imperialist China as “Socialist”
Replying to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster, Michael Pröbsting argues that the People’s Republic of China is both capitalist and imperialist.
A Tale of Two Ports
Phil Neel challenges the view of China as a challenger to US hegemony, arguing that hegemony itself produces the turbulent politics read as a sign of its demise.
Nationalism and Capitalism’s Ever-Spiraling Crisis
Through the lens of nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Wolfgang Streeck and Jamie Merchant’s respective responses to capitalist crisis. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?
The Antisemitism of Zionism
Shane Burley argues that Zionism has a long history of entrenching antisemitism and serves as a reactionary, radical sectionalist mode of politics that spells disaster for both Jews and humanity more broadly.
An Unending Genocide
Spectre’s Shireen Akram-Boshar speaks with Toufic Haddad about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
“Viva, Viva, Palestina!”
In this photographic essay, journalist Ari Golub depicts the energy, solidarity, and steadfast resolve among protesters at the George Washington University campus, where young people from across the DC area have convened as part of a nationwide movement of student encampment protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and university divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians.