The Global South Must Be at the Center of the Making of a Just Global Economic Order
The US-dominated economic order constructed after Bretton Woods did not take the Global South into consideration. A new, just system will have to change that.
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The Black Anti-Colonial Tradition Fought for a Global Revolution
From the Caribbean to West Africa, black anti-colonial thinkers of the interwar period advanced a compelling vision of how imperialism and capitalism worked on a global scale. They sought to develop a struggle against racial domination that was equally broad.
How Hindu Nationalists Became Best Friends With Israel
Narendra Modi’s friendship with Benjamin Netanyahu may seem to clash with India’s historic anti-colonial stances. Yet their collaboration is rooted in a long history of Hindutva admiration for Zionist ethnonationalism.
Fifty Years Ago, Angola Looked Forward to a False Dawn
January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angola’s independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was doomed to be a Cold War battleground, with Washington planners seeking to avenge their defeat in Vietnam.
The Logic of Israeli Violence
Israeli violence isn’t senseless — it follows a colonial logic.
The Real Free-Speech Threat
The most successful recent attacks on free speech have come from Zionist organizations seeking to suppress any criticism of Israel.
Anything but Pacific
Emmanuel Macron celebrated New Caledonia’s vote to remain part of France as an indication of the Republic’s strength. Yet France’s continued control is based on a bloody history of repression against the independence movement.
“Our Solidarity Must Become a Verb”
In a speech last week at the UN, Marc Lamont Hill issued a passionate call for action to achieve justice in Palestine. We reprint his address here in full.
A Half-Millennium of Indigenous Resistance Continues
The indigenous uprising at Standing Rock was far from an isolated incident on that native land, as historian Nick Estes shows in a new book. It is the site of hundreds of years of anticolonial struggle.
Kissinger in East Timor
Henry Kissinger once said that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands in East Timor would have occurred no matter what he did. He was too modest.
America’s Cold War Crimes Abroad Are Still Shaping Our World
In the twentieth century, the United States engaged in brutal, even sadistic interventions all over the world, from Indonesia to Brazil, to stop the Left's advance. We’re still living in those interventions' shadow.
The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left
The roots of modern Zionism are in colonialism. This was the foundation of the Jewish left’s opposition to Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s, on the grounds that it is a form of right-wing nationalism and imperialism that is fundamentally opposed to working-class internationalism.
Mohammed el-Kurd’s Unabashed Fury Against Israeli Apartheid
Mohammed el-Kurd has become the face of Palestinian resistance to Israeli apartheid. His fearlessness and ability to speak truth to power has helped galvanize the global anti-Zionist movement.
Seamus Deane’s Writing Was a Challenge to Empire and a Call for Radical Change
The Irish critic Seamus Deane grew up in Derry as a second-class citizen of a sectarian state. Taking inspiration from writers like Edward Said, Deane’s critical work exposed the legacies of colonialism and the failings of capitalist modernity in Ireland.
Maurice Bishop Knew Why He Was Dangerous
On the 40th anniversary of his murder, we remember socialist revolutionary Maurice Bishop and his June 1983 trip to New York.
Raz Segal: Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies
Scholar Raz Segal recounts the strange experience of being attacked as an antisemite, despite being Jewish himself and studying the Holocaust and other genocides, for the high crime of opposing Israel’s slaughter in Gaza.
The Oslo Illusion
The Oslo Accords weren’t a failure for Israel — they served as a fig leaf to consolidate and deepen its control over Palestinian life.
The Communists and the Colonized
The French Communist Party left a checkered record on anti-imperialism.
Australia, a Counterrevolutionary Colony
With the British settlement of Australia, Europe’s long history of overseas convict transportation entered one of its most bizarre chapters, as an entire continent was excised as an open-air prison for England’s criminalized lower classes.
In Algeria’s Freedom Struggle, the Spirit of Frantz Fanon Is Still Alive
Frantz Fanon died 60 years ago today. In his last decade, he was deeply involved in Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle — providing lessons that can still be used in the country's fight against dictatorship today.