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Colonialism and Imperialism

  • A black and white photograph of Andrée Blouin

    My Country: Africa – review

    Andrée Blouin’s autobiography, whilst messy at points, charts a clear history of resistance to colonial oppression, writes Olivia Umuerwa Rutazibwa

  • A montage of b&w photographs of generals and a statue being pulled down

    Iran ’53: The coup that changed the Middle East

    When Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossaddegh tried to nationalise oil, Britain and the US helped overthrow him. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi traces how covert interventions continue to shape the region

  • Three Palestinian children with their backs to the camera watching Israeli military vehicles attempting to intimidate them in the West Bank

    Breaking the sword in occupied Palestine

    In the first dispatch of our series Breaking the Sword, three clandestine organisers working in the West Bank report on settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing

  • Three blood-covered actors in a scene from the movie Sinners

    Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

    Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

  • President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré (right) shaking hands with Russian president Vladimir Putin (right)

    Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism

    The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi

  • A photo at a distance of a tailings dam, showing large deposits of mining byproducts with a digger in the centre of the photo

    Anglo American and the greenwashed mineral rush

    The British mining giant paints itself as a ‘climate leader’ but boasts a history of violent extraction. Activists from London Mining Network and We Smell Gas identify a critical target for anti-imperialist solidarity

  • A group of Orthodox Jewish men at a protest, with Palestinian flags in the background, holding a placard reading 'Judaism condemns the State of "Israel" and its attrocities'.

    Key words: Zionism

    Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

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