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Vijay Prashad’s Iran

Vijay Prashad’s Iran

Vijay Prashad’s Iran: A Response to CounterPunch’s Declaration “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars…to End the U.S. War on Iran,” and to the Political Framework That Made It Possible We appreciated and recommend this recent essay.

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“Resistance Has Become Thinkable Again” — Torkil Lauesen and the Global Perspective on OCT 7 [comra]

“Resistance Has Become Thinkable Again” — Torkil Lauesen and the Global Perspective on OCT 7 [comra]

An Interview with Anti-Imperialist Veteran Torkil Lauesen, Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Decline of Western Hegemony [This interview was originally posted to comrawire.substack.com on October 7, 2025.] The shockwaves of the Al-Aqsa Flood still rattle the world two years on. Israel’s war machine failed to crush the Palestinian will to resist. Across the world, the genocide has left many overwhelmed and disoriented. Where do we go from here? [comra] sat down with anti-imperialist veteran Torkil Lauesen, known for his sharp analysis of geopolitics and resistance, interpreted through a Marxist lens. “It is not just about solidarity with Palestine,...

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

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

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 Is for Everyone [Gabriel Kuhn]

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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