Trump’s tariffs turmoil – an empire in decline
Trump, tariffs and the changing balance of power in the world economy.
Review | Smoke and Ashes
Opium was central to British rule in India, British exploitation of China and the rise of capitalism in the US.
Interview with Odrán de Bhaldraithe
Author Odrán de Bhaldraithe talks about occupation and impoverishment in the North of Ireland
Imperialism in the 21st century – the end of US dominance?
As Trump puts an end to the post-war order and China rises to become a global power, we provide an overview of global political economy.
Review | Digital Degrowth
Digital technologies are inseparably linked to imperialism and the climate emergency – we need to transition away from Big Tech.
Video | China and the US in the 21st century
The rapid growth of the Chinese economy over the last quarter of a century and the growing tensions with the US
Review | Crude Capitalism
What has oil got to do with the history of the global capitalist economy? A review of Adam Hanieh’s book on the topic.
Gaza ceasefire: a new phase in the struggle for Palestinian liberation
This is not something we move on from as a point in time, but an ongoing fight for liberation that cuts to the heart of the capitalist and imperialist world system.
Syria: history shapes our organising today
How does the overthrow of Assad fit in the wider context of the Middle East, Israeli aggression and inter-imperialist competition?
Lebanon: imperialist penetration and anti-imperialist contradictions – part 2
Part two of a three part series of articles on anti-Zionist resistance and the development of the Lebanese state
Lebanon: imperialist penetration and anti-imperialist contradictions
Part 1 in a series on Lebanon’s history of resistance
Palestine solidarity and overdetermination
Analysing the endurance of Israel’s barbarisms and its interdependence with US imperialism
Justice for Lebanon: Against the ‘new phase in the war’
These latest barbaric events develop the broader project of Zionist terror in Lebanon.
Imperialism and British workers: moving past the labour aristocracy debates
Our history is shaped by the legacy of empire. Alfie Hancox takes a critical look at debates on Labour and Imperialism
Statement on Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran
On the Zionist attacks, and a call to renew our work against imperialism in Britain.
Settler colonialism and socialist politics – a contribution to the debate
David Camfield, a socialist active in the Canadian state, responds to the debate on this website about settler-colonialism.
Escalations in Palestine
Daire Ní Chnáimh collates developments in Palestinian resistance and their interlocked escalations.
Cyprus: 50 years of partition
Andrew Stone looks back on the military coup that divided Cyprus in 1974 and reflects on developments over the subsequent fifty years
Green imperialism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Imperial powers control and profit from the DRC’s minerals. Ben Radley explains the history and calls for protest.
Palestine and the Arab Revolution: rising in solidarity
Revolutionaries from the Middle East and North Africa discuss Palestinian liberation’s and links to global freedom.
The DRC bleeds because of the world’s greed
Report from a Stand with Congo demonstration in Central London on 6 April where at least a hundred protestors gathered to highlight the situation in the eastern Congo
Militarism and anti-militarism
In the midst of an arms industry boom, we need to link anti-imperialism to anti-militarism.
I Forgot to Die: thinking through the social reproduction of Palestinian life
Tithi Bhattacharya uses the lens of social reproduction theory to show how the disruption and annihilation of Palestine life is inherent to the Zionist project.
Haiti: “The truth speaks for itself”
As violence escalates in Haiti, we republish this statement by Robert Roth which identifies US and UN intervention as the source of the crisis.
Lenin, National Liberation and Palestine
Gus Woody reviews Imperialism and the National Question recently published by Verso.
From Ukraine to Gaza: imperialism, resistance and solidarity
Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we need international solidarity in building resistance to imperialism and militarism.