Tag: Imperialism
![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.
Managing Contradictions at the Border
Elaine Wik looks at the political economy subtending the dynamics of conflict and securitization at the India/Bangladesh border.
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 US Kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro
Geo Maher traces the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro to a long history of US imperial intervention, sanctions warfare, and the ongoing attempt to destroy Venezuela’s communal revolution.
Exporting Genocide
susie day interviews Basil Farraj on Israel’s carceral logics.
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.