imperialism

Articles

• Pakistan: The madressah riddle
  1 December 2021, by siawi3

  THE state has yet to fully realise the sociocultural and political-economic inferences of religious education institutions or madressahs. Those leading the madressahs have taken advantage of the persisting confusion and have continued to strengthen their roots and support among the people. The Jamaat-i-Islami and its subsidiaries were a major partner of military dictator Ziaul Haq in his goal of encroaching on educational campuses, sowing the seeds of religious extremism and recruiting for ‘jihad’ in Afghanistan and Kashmir. The US and Saudi Arabia were major sponsors of this project.

• USA: Anti-Communism, Anti-Blackness, and Imperialism
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  How anti-communism and anti-Blackness are intrinsically intertwined structures of white supremacist and capitalist control.

• Le rejet de la France au Sahel : mille et une raisons ?
  7 décembre 2021, par siawi3

  Au Sahel, les manifestations d’hostilité à l’égard de la France, cristallisées dans la contestation de l’opération Barkhane, se multiplient. Le sentiment « anti-français » qui s’installe doit être compris comme la conséquence d’un travail sur la mémoire de la colonisation inachevé, mais aussi comme le fruit de discours complotistes qui ne doivent être sous-estimés. Un profond changement d’attitude de la politique française vis-à-vis des pays africains s’impose comme seule voie de pacification.

• Frantz Fanon Lives! 60 Years After His Death, Fanon’s Ideas Remain the Weapons of the Oppressed
  8 December 2021, by siawi3

  Today, it is more necessary than ever to study Fanon to understand the psychological, emotional and spiritual damage wrought by neo-colonialism on the peoples of Africa, the Americas, Asia and what the Black Panthers referred to as the United States’ internal colonies.

• USA: Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, one of the great revolutionary intellectuals of the 20^th century
  9 December 2021, by siawi3

  Fanon will not allow us to begin our discussion with the counter-violence of the oppressed, but rather with longstanding and often overlooked terror and trauma of the structural violence and everyday horror shot through the colonial realities for precious ordinary people.

• India’s Revolutionary Spiritual Urge: Bhagat Singh and the Naxalites
  14 December 2021, by siawi3

  The colonial tyrant called you the terrorist Bhagat Singh that day,
  The neofascist despot calls you the terrorist Naxalite today.
  But everyone will call you the morning star tomorrow

• Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
  18 December 2021, by siawi3

  Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have. The UK is again the good vassal, keeping him locked up until the Biden administration finds an opportune time to ship him off to a kangaroo court. Everyone who believes in press freedom and who opposes imperialism must be a staunch Assange defender. The corrupt process must be exposed and all Assange supporters must speak up. The United States should not be allowed to use the Espionage Act or any other mechanism to snatch up anyone, anywhere and charge with a crime of dubious legality. If they are allowed to do so in this case they will certainly do it again. Anyone who wants to expose high crimes will find themselves in Assange’s position.

• Defying Empire: Cuba’s Contributions to the Fight Against Racism and White Supremacy
  19 December 2021, by siawi3

  It was racism and white supremacy that provided the cultural justifications for slavery and the concomitant slave trade, for European colonial expansion and imperialism, without which capitalism would not have developed.

• Beaten, begging and in hiding: Life for the Afghans the UK left behind
  26 December 2021, by siawi3

  In August, thousands of people who worked for the UK in Afghanistan were left to the Taliban’s mercy. openDemocracy spoke to four still stuck in Kabul

• Pakistan: Systemic violence on local people
  7 January, by siawi3

  Terrorism in Pakistan’s border areas cannot be attributed to a bunch of lunatics dispatching the ‘civilised’ world to hell just for the fun of it. It is, instead, rooted in the state’s grand, imperialist designs to exercise control over Afghanistan. So, the violence we see is not local. It has a strong state and market connection and, therefore, it is systemic.

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