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The author argues that capitalism could not have thrived without colonialism. He contends that industrial, global capitalism was inextricably linked to, and dependent on, the super-exploitation, racialised expropriation, and structural plunder of colonial territories.
‘Tactical Retreats: Why Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands’: Just as the false claims of betrayal on January 3 are now easily disproved, so too are the claims of betrayal in the two months since. Also: ‘Venezuela: Defense of Nicolás and Cilia’.
‘Regime Change in the Iran War, But Which One?’; ‘Iran Prepared for an Existential War. How Much Are Trump and Israel Willing to Gamble?’; ‘Iran Attacked by the US and Israel When Peace Was Within Reach’; ‘The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It’; ‘Mass Movement Mobilizes Against Trump’s War on Iran’.
What are the implications for India of the US-Israel attack on Iran? To understand this, we need to place this development in the context of the present world situation, and India’s political economy within that.
‘The Global War Over Seeds’: How corporations privatise the seeds of the Global South, including India, through patents, destroying biodiversity and trampling farmers’ rights. Also: ‘Farmers in India Reject the Seeds Bill and the Corporate Enclosure of Seeds’.
Two prominent Jewish historians have recently written from different perspectives – one economic and political; one largely theological and moral – that the state of Israel is doomed and living on borrowed time.
March 2026 editorial by Foster for Monthly Review: To make sense of present developments, it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.
As the United States and Israel launch a new large-scale military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, while continuing the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people and the annexation of the West Bank, it is important to analyze, from a historical perspective, the policy of the United States in the Americas.
Killing, wounding, threatening, or investigating observers are just some of the many abuses and violent tactics of immigration officers in the era of Donald Trump.
In this interview, Chris Gilbert offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation in Venezuela within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region. He also discusses the Venezuelan communes in this context.
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