Academic institutions in the United States and other First World countries overwhelmingly support the capitalist-imperialist system. This article from RT demonstrates how so-called scientific fields like psychiatry are not neutral. Instead they are studied specifically for the purpose of maintaining class rule. A major aspect of psychology and psychiatry is interrogations and investigations. Civilian professionals in these fields teach imperialist military and police officers how […]
Yale will train US Special Forces in interrogation techniques using immigrants as guinea pigs
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NEW After Sorrow Comes Joy podacst
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Check out the new After Sorrow Comes Joy mini-cast. Hosted by Nick Brown, ASCJ features news, analysis, and a few bangers. Listen Now!
100 communist rebels attack vast pineapple plantation in the southern Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines — More than 100 communist guerrillas stormed one of the world’s largest pineapple plantations in the southern Philippines, killing a guard and torching farm equipment in their biggest attack this year, officials said Wednesday. At least two other guards and a villager were shot and wounded by the New People’s Army guerrillas, who […]
Scientists to First World: Cut Back Meat Consumption
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From The Guardian (UK): Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world UN study says horsemeat scandal exposed dark side of cheap meat and shows how farming practices destroy natural world Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent The Guardian, Sunday 17 February 2013 People in the rich world should become “demitarians” – eating half as much meat as […]
Calculating the Value of Labor
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Contrary to popular ‘Marxist’ belief, the value of labor is not indeterminate. A simple equation dividing the total value produced in a given period by the total number of working hours reveals the value of labor. Unlike in Marx’s day when the total value produced in the world economy was unknown, today we can use […]
Syrian Women Join Fight Against Imperialism
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Given the recent track record in Libya and Egypt, women in Syria are increasingly aware of what is at stake in the struggle against imperialist-backed Islamists. Rather than submit to the dual oppression of imperialist-enforced patriarchy, these women are fighting back.
Rally for Bradley Manning in Denver
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From Bradley Manning Support Network: 1000 days too many! Free Bradley Manning Protest Rally on Feb 23rd this day marks 1000 days of Bradley Mannings wrongful imprisonment! Come together with us in downtown Denver to show that “We the people” will not stand for this extreme injustice. This will be a fun informative family friendly […]
February
18
The West’s War Against African Development Continues
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The recent intervention in Mali and Algeria by the French imperialists is linked to the recent NATO destruction of Libya, past actions that led to the creation of AFRICOM and the weakening of the African Union, and current efforts by Western powers to increase their military, political and economic presence in Africa as a whole. […]
February
17
An Interview with Irina Malenko, Author of Sovietica
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[This interview was sourced from Ideological Fightback. Re-posting is for educational purposes and does not imply endorsement of affiliation. Generally speaking, the USSR during the authors lifetime was not socialist. This is because it was no longer part of the movement for proletarian revolution. Instead it was led by a ruling class which eventually dismantled against the will of the […]
February
06
Applying Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ Against First Worldism and Reformism
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Saul Alinsky’s thinking was on the First Worldist and reformist end of nominal radicalism in the United States. His 1971 ‘Rules for Radicals’ was supposed to be a manual to organize against the evils of capitalism (and though never implied, from a privileged position atop a global division of labor). As such, his political stances are […]
February
05
Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz, Chicano Nation Freedom Fighter
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A comrade directed me to a new blog, Notes From Aztlán, a blog dedicated to Chicano national liberation. I would recommend checking it out. Among its posts is one about the story of Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz. The short history of Chavez-Ortiz is this: An unemployed Chicano restaurant worker hijacked a plane in 1972, with his only […]
Matthijs Krul: Book Review: Zak Cope’s “Divided World Divided Class”
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There are times when one encounters a book that is frustrating in a way particular to the intellectual life: that is to say, when one encounters a book that is precisely the book one wanted to write. Given the relative obscurity of my interests, this does not happen often to me, but Zak Cope’s Divided World, […]
January
25
2012 Anti-Imperialism.com Web Report
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2012 was mildly successful year for Anti-Imperialism.com in terms of global reach, readership, and new cadre development. Over the course of the year, web traffic has gone up. In 2012 we received 47,248 page views compared to 30,412 the year before, a 55% increase. November saw a record number of page views over the course […]
January
25
Editorial: Kasama inadvertently promotes capitalist road in Nepal
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The reformed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) recently held its seventh general convention. It was the first such event since it formally split from the revisionist Unified Communist Party of Nepal last summer. During and immediately after the convention, the CPN-Maoist vowed to carry forth a strategy of ‘people’s revolt.’ They also took the opportunity […]
January
20
Whistling Language, Once Dying, Being Revived
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One effect of global imperialism on the peoples of the world is the increasing decline of language diversity. In the efforts to bring the world into a monolithic whole many local indigenous languages are declining and even disappearing. According to the Endangered Languages Project over half of the world’s 7,000 known languages are in danger […]
January
20
Federal government restores Native American ‘Occupation of Alcatraz’ graffiti
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The occupation of Alcatraz by indigenous activists from 1969 to 1971 was a pivotal event in the history of Native resistance. It brought attention all over the world to the national oppression faced by the indigenous peoples of Amerikkka. Now this history is being preserved as it should be. From Yahoo! News: Putting graffiti in […]
January
14
New Third Worldist Webforum: R/peoplesliberation
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Comrades, Today is the opening day of the second semester of People’s Liberation University, a series of local and online study groups initiated by comrades associated with Anti-Imperialist.com. Along with the re-opening of PLU, we are pleased to announce that we creating an ‘open campus’ environment where anyone (with some obvious qualifications) can participate. The […]
Three Kurdish Women, Including PKK Co-Founder, Assassinated in Paris
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The PKK, Kurdistan Workers Party, has been leading the peoples war for decades for the liberation of the Kurdish people from oppression by its Turkish occupiers. It had setbacks many years ago with the capture of their leader Ocalan, but the struggle is protracted and continues on many fronts. Recently three Kurdish leaders were killed […]
Gunships lead French operation against rebels in Mali
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I have written before about the increased conflict in Mali, and the goals of the imperialist powers to get a greater foothold in Africa. Now it looks like France, the former colonial occupier of Mali, is conducting military actions in the country under the typical pretense of “terrorism.” From The Telegraph (U.K.): French helicopter gunships […]
December
25
Beginning January 14th: Winter Semester of People’s Liberation University.
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People’s Liberation University will be launching its winter semester on January 14th, 2013. All genuine groups and individuals are welcome to participate. People’s Liberation University promotes an environment of critical inquiry and radical discussion and aims to train a new generation of anti-imperialist radical intellectuals. Last semester during the Fall of 2012, we held two […]
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