Francesca Albanese: This Is Genocide
In an interview, UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese explains how Israel is systematically erasing Palestinian life from Gaza.
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Albert Camus and the Fantasies of Empire
The novelist Albert Camus is omnipresent in French cultural life, from TV shows to comic books, magazine covers and one-man shows. Camus-mania isn’t just a literary phenomenon: it draws on a deep well of political revisionism and colonial nostalgia.
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Anti-Imperialism Is Still Too Radical for France Today
Jean-Paul Sartre’s uncompromising opposition to the crimes of empire makes him a taboo figure in French culture. The French political mainstream is still in denial about the bloody history of colonialism.
China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto’s Enduring Power
In an interview, author China Miéville explains why Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto is such a remarkable work, defending the book against its detractors and arguing that it remains urgently inspiring and deeply relevant.
Bahrain’s Fate
On Ibrahim Sharif and the misleadingly-dubbed “Arab Spring.”
Fighting Puerto Rico’s Federal Coup
How the Puerto Rican left is trying to build resistance to both colonialism and neoliberalism.
Berlin’s Black Communist
In the years before Hitler seized power, a Cameroonian communist was an icon of the Berlin left. Joseph Ekwe Bilé linked the fight against race hate in Germany to the vision of a world free of imperialism.
Tech Giants Are Using This Crisis to Colonize the Welfare System
In recent years, firms like Google and Facebook have used the Global South as a test bed for new and unregulated forms of data collection. Faced with coronavirus, the same mechanisms are being rolled out across the world — with for-profit data collection becoming increasingly central to states’ management of their welfare systems.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Anyone Living in a Colonial Society Can Relate to Black Lives Matter
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, author of Decolonising the Mind, is one of the most important African intellectuals writing about the politics of post-colonialism today. He told Jacobin how the colonial legacy in Kenya shaped his politics — and why language remains a decisive political battleground.
The Anti-Colonial Revolt Was Key to Lenin’s Vision of Revolution
The Russian Revolution enthused anti-colonial movements around the world, fueling hopes that the European empires could be overthrown. But the revolt against empire was also fundamental to Lenin's own strategy, as he worked to unite workers’ revolts in the metropoles with national struggles to end colonial exploitation.
How the Philippines Were Crucial to the Making of American Empire
From its vicious occupation in the early 20th century to its military bases in the present, the US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.
What Life Looked Like for Palestinians Before October 7
Israel is fast turning Gaza into a wasteland, the result of decades of occupation and apartheid. Israeli journalist Amira Hass explains what life was like for Palestinians before the current genocide.
Non-Jews Banning Jewish Texts to Protect Jews
Hunter College’s announced hiring for a Palestinian studies professor led New York governor Kathy Hochul to order the listing’s removal for “hateful rhetoric” like “settler colonialism.” By that logic, Zionist Jewish texts themselves would be banned.
The Colonial Contradictions of Albert Camus
French writer Albert Camus has become an iconic figure, celebrated by everyone from Emmanuel Macron to George W. Bush. But the idealized public image of Camus as a liberal humanist does not reckon honestly with the impact of French colonialism on his work.
Feel Good Zionism
A review of Yitzhak Laor's The Myths of Liberal Zionism.
Liberalism’s Exclusions and Expansions
A review of Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History.
Palestine and the Left
The Left has a checkered history when it comes to Palestine.
Google and the Liberal Man’s Burden
As Silicon Valley is learning, "pinkwashing" is the perfect tool for political misdirection.