Tag: Imperialism
Comparing the Directions in Which Ideas Travel in Ages of Reaction
DK Renton compares the ideological balance of power between reactionary hegemons and their allies in the interwar period and today.
Feminist Struggles for Life
Two comrades look to Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.
On US Intervention and the Venezuelan State
Spectre editors Shireen Akram-Boshar and Charlie Post interview Federico Fuentes, a longtime Venezeula solidarity activist, as part of Spectre’s ongoing evaluation of the conjuncture in Venezuela.
![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.webp)
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.