It is absolutely necessary to rebuild an intellectual and political foundation for criticism and seeking change in the world, but metropolitan anti-imperialism is totally unfit for this job. It has ...

Political opposition to American imperialism has grown in fits and starts—one step forward, two steps back—since the election of Barack Obama. The Trump administration’s America First foreign policy ...

A recent book on the Revolutionary Cells of Germany, a network of militant left-wing radicals active in the 1980s and 90s, includes a curious exchange. An interviewer asks three former RC members ...

The logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a recipe for empty cynicism. Syrians attend a mass demonstration in Idlib on March 18, 2021, commemorating the 2011 siege of Daraa.(Anas ...

Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamsters union warehouse worker, the US Green Party 2020 presidential candidate and an ecosocialist. Together with a range of other leftists, socialists, unionists and ...

The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through ...

"A BAD leader that dreams of being a dictator." It could have been a comment about the current president of the United States--but that was Donald Trump himself denouncing Venezuelan President Nicolás ...

First, a bit about Somaliland: as Max Webb explains brilliantly, Somaliland has been operating as an autonomous political ...

“WE WON’T FIGHT ANOTHER RICH MAN’S WAR”—an anti–Vietnam War protest in the 1970s. (Public Domain, via Zinn Education Project) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

PRO-ASSAD leftists, your analysis is wrong. To support Assad and Russian intervention in Syria is to support a completely brutal counterrevolution. The Syrian uprising, along with the whole Arab ...

“Remembrance is, so to speak, interwoven with forgetfulness. That is why the Jewish historian Yosef Yerushalmi has pointed out that the opposite of “forgetfulness” is not really “remembrance” but ...