Following is a conversation between Anu Muhammad (an organizer with the National Committee in Bangladesh, which works against resource extraction and imperialism), two members of One Struggle (Daniel and Stephanie McMillan), plus Irtishad Ahmad and Swapan Majhi. It took place at FIU (Miami), in October 2012. Anu Muhammad: Tell me about your organization. Stephanie McMillan: [...]
By De Guerre Nom In July 1944, as World War II drew to a close, delegates from 44 Allied countries met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference to draw up plans for the management of the world economy in the aftermath of the most destructive war in history. [...]
By Stephanie McMillan The historical development of capitalism drives inexorably (though not uniformly) toward the concentration of capital. This is expedited by increasing the scale of production, dominating markets, and improving technology. Concentrations of capital form monopolies that can exert proportional power (control) over the economic and political arrangements of the social formations they dominate. [...]
By Camilo Mejia My two main direct experiences with US imperialism were first when I lived in Sandinista Nicaragua, where both of my parents had been active insurgents against the Somoza dictatorship and later part of the revolutionary government; and second as an invader and occupier while serving in Iraq with the US military in [...]
by Irtishad Ahmad “In any case, New Imperialism is already upon us. It’s a remodeled, streamlined version of what we once knew. For the first time in history, a single empire with an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the world in an afternoon has complete, unipolar, economic and military hegemony. It uses different weapons [...]
Some of the music at the Anti-Imperialist Festival, 7/28/12 at Libreri Mapou, Miami [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cauJCjM3wJ0?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Askultura [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn_ZwttP4Iw?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Jan Sebon [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_F44skxUDk?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Kiki Wainwright
by Jan Makandal Since capitalism reached the stage of imperialism, many imperialist countries have initiated and developed relations with Haiti. From the onset, these have been nothing but relations of domination. This analysis divides that history into three periods, with an emphasis on the third: 1) The period from our independence to 1915 2) From [...]