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analysis, anti-imperialism, lebanon, Matthew N Lyons, middle east, palestine, Three Way Fight - October 8, 2024

“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted on ThreeWayFight.org on October 8, 2024.] Israeli airstrike on Tyre, Lebanon, 25 September 2024. by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should support Hezbollah against Israeli aggression, despite the fact that it was a right-wing movement with ultimately theocratic goals. This pissed off a lot of leftists. Some people said we should reject both Israel and Hezbollah equally, but the stronger disagreement came from leftists who declared it was wrong to characterize Hezbollah...

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anti-imperialism, event, montreal - August 26, 2024

Bandung of the North, Sept. 27-29 in Montreal

From the Bandung of the North website (français suit en bas): The Bandung Conference of the North continues in the spirit of Bandung 1955, the first intercontinental conference of non-white peoples in human history. In the context of the Cold War, when the world was polarized between the Soviet and Western blocs, a group of newly sovereign states of the "South" organized themselves politically to accelerate the process of independence for those states still under colonial rule. It was in the small town of Bandung, on the Indonesian island of Java, that this first international conference was held from April...

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anti-imperialism, Gabriel Kuhn - February 17, 2023

Anti-imperialism Is for Everyone [Gabriel Kuhn]

Intro 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 about anti-imperialism, insisting that it was a “Leninist concept”. Eventually, one of the former RC members says: “The term ‘anti-imperialism’ was widely used within the left at the time, it didn’t necessarily indicate Leninism. ... It meant that liberation cannot be reduced to the national frame; it needs to be international and the result of fighting an international system of exploitation.” The questions by the...

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anti-imperialism, book review, Torkil Lauesen - December 2, 2022

Torkil Lauesen's Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]

Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System, Torkil Lauesen, Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2021, 268pp. Reviewed by Adam Grey. [Originally published on RevolutionaryCommunist.org, 1 Dec 2022.] This important book by the Danish anti-imperialist activist Torkil Lauesen charts the history of Sweden ‘from 16th-century colonialism to the present day’ (p7). It is a description of the bloody foundations of what was in the 1980s one of the most socially and economically equal countries in the capitalist world. The book also places contemporary Swedish political economy in a global context: examining how Swedish capital operates today, how the Swedish working class...

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