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Colonialism and Imperialism

  • Three photos of encampments: one showing tents and flags, one a mass demo, and one a man in keffiyeh speaking in a microphone

    The view from student encampments for Palestine

    Students have taken sustained collective action against institutional complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Here, three activists reflect on the university encampments and the solidarity movement landscape

  • A late-19th century style illustration shows an 'Uncle Sam' figure dressed in US flag colours rampaging and fighting wars

    Genocide is the dark side of US democracy

    The US presidential election offers an illusion of choice when it comes to supporting genocide, argues Seraj Assi

  • A large fire raging in the background with an olive tree and a person looking on in the foreground

    Imperialism, climate crisis and Palestine liberation

    We need to look at the Palestinian cause as a fundamental cornerstone to our struggles against US-led imperialism and global fossil capitalism, argues Hamza Hamouchene

  • Fighting the dirty money behind art, sports and culture

    Paula Lacey traces efforts to wash out state and corporate influence on culture in the UK around the world

  • Photo of a long train covered and surrounded by hundreds of people wearing bring colours and waving Sudan flags

    Sudan’s lost revolution

    The hopes of the grassroots, citizens’ revolution have given way to the brutality and violence of rentier elites in Sudan, writes Raga Makawi

  • Two white feminine people in masks, their shoulders draped in Ukraine flags, hold cardboard signs. One reads: Stop Russian aggression, the other shows a drawing of bombs falling on a mother and child

    Ukraine must win

    Assessing the Russo-Ukraine war from a progressive perspective means recognising the fascist, imperialist nature of the Russian invader, writes Yuliya Yurchenko

  • A photo of two men in suit and tie – Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad – together lighting white candles from a red candle that sits in the middle of a round platform

    Left analyses of imperialism must stand against ‘campism’

    Syria and Israel may be in different geopolitical camps but their practices of population extermination are the same. The international left must recognise the commonalities, argues Elia J Ayoub

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