Imperialism
Imperialism Today: Toward “Systemic Chaos”?
The U.S. elections will determine whether Donald Trump continues for another four years or the Democrats return to the White House with Joe Biden. Either scenario could mark a turning point. One salient characteristic of Trump’s first term has been his breaking — with uneven of the mechanisms through which the United States has articulated its dominance since World War II, shunning the more “multilateral” aspects of that dominance in favor of a more exacerbated unilateralism.
Esteban Mercatante
October 21, 2020Venezuela: Against Imperialist Sanctions and for the Freedom of Working-Class and Poor Prisoners
The PTS of Argentina is proposing that the parties of the Left Unity Front begin a continuing campaign in solidarity with Venezuela that raises the struggle against imperialist sanctions and the fight for the freedom of working-class and poor prisoners.
Christian Castillo
October 17, 2020Fear and Uncertainty as Bolivians Take to the Polls in First Election since U.S. Sponsored Coup
On Sunday, Bolivia will hold its first elections since the coup last November. Right-wing realignments make a second round of voting more likely. The conciliatory policy of the MAS weakens and demoralizes those who want to fight, and it strengthens right-wing objectives. We must prepare the workers and the people to independently organize and mobilize.
Javo Ferreira
October 16, 2020Fight Racism, Imperialism, and the Current Crisis: A Program to Unify the Exploited and Oppressed
In a context of global instability and national turmoil, the most critical task for socialists in the U.S. is to combine the immediate struggle against attacks on the lives and democratic rights of the exploited and oppressed with the greater battle for socialism. What might that look like?
Left Voice
October 14, 2020U.S. Imperialism Launches New Sanctions on Iran
The Trump administration is applying “maximum pressure” toward Iran via new sanctions as Iran faces a new wave of coronavirus cases. The American Left has an obligation to denounce imperialist aggression that harms the Iranian masses.
Samuel Karlin
October 11, 2020Two More Arab States Normalize Relations with Israel
Bahrain and the UAE are the first Arab states in twenty-five years to establish formal ties with Israel (joining Egypt and Jordan), officially demolishing the already decaying facade of Arab unity with Palestine.
Mia Moraru
October 2, 2020Disputes Between U.S. and China Dominate UN General Assembly
This Year's remote meeting of the United Nations General Assembly reflected the continued global health crisis as well as the ongoing and increasingly sharp economic battle between the US and China.
Claudia Cinatti
September 26, 2020The United States Puts Pressure on Venezuela with New Political Sanctions
The United States continues to pressure Venezuela with new political sanctions. On Monday, the Trump administration announced sanctions on Iran and Venezuela for violating an “arms embargo.” Tuesday’s sanctions have been imposed on five political representatives linked to the opposition for allegedly being part of a plan to manipulate the parliamentary elections in December.
La Izquierda Diario Venezuela
September 24, 2020The Vietnam War: Brutal, Criminal, Imperialist
Trump recently sent the liberal media into a frenzy with his alleged remarks calling the Vietnam War "stupid" and its veterans "suckers." But the Vietnam War was anything but. It was a reign of terror on a people who had recently won their independence and it preyed upon young, working-class Americans to push its capitalist, imperialist agenda.
Samuel Karlin
September 13, 2020Uneven Development and Imperialism Today: Engaging with the Ideas of David Harvey
The last few decades have been characterized by weak economic growth in the developed countries, which contrasts with the dynamism shown by China and other countries on the periphery. What does this tell us about the relations that characterize the world capitalist system?
Esteban Mercatante
September 13, 2020