Conflict

Patagonia Forest Fires

Reveal Imperialist Theft of Protected Lands By Aby L. Sène Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Thomas Sankara, once declared at the International Conference on Trees and Forests in Paris in February 1986 that the “struggle to defend the…


Collapsing Empire

US Bows To African Revolutionaries By Kit Klarenberg On February 2nd, the BBC published an extraordinary report on how the Trump administration “has declared a stark policy shift” towards Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the…


Greenland Is Not a Prize

By Vijay Prashad Every few years, the centre of the imperialist Global North — the United States — forgets its manners. It is one thing to be rude to Iran or Venezuela, but it is…


Trump, ICE, and the Imperialist Boomerang

The Empire Comes Home Commentary by Fiorella Isabel There seems to be a systemic crisis rooted in the nature of the U.S. American empire, resulting in an “Imperialist Boomerang”—a consequence of decades of interventionist foreign…


How to Block ICE In Your City

An interview with Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay By Eric Blanc ICE and the Border Patrol’s terror campaign has taken the lives of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and led to the abduction of five-year-old Liam…


Belgium’s Lumumba Case Raises a Question

By Tafi Mhaka On January 20, a court in Brussels, Belgium, convened a procedural hearing in the long-running case concerning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the…


Venezuela Under Siege

A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions By Roger D. Harris Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that…


Exxon’s Long History in Venezuela

By Nick Corbishley Exxon has a long, rich history in Venezuela dating back over a century. Its predecessor, Standard Oil, was one of the first companies to explore for oil in the South American country…