Leninist anti-imperialism vs non-class anti-imperialism
Imperialism still exists and is as vicious as ever despite the collapse of the major colonial empires. The Leninist theory of imperialism remains a crucial guide to the anti-imperialist struggle, and shows its indissoluble connection to the class struggle. This section deals with the general theory: many more articles on the various crimes of imperialism and the struggle against them are listed under other categories.
The divided legacy of John Pilger (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 9, 2024)
An open letter from activists around the world denounces the denigration of the struggle against the Assad dictatorship. Erasing people through disinformation: Syria and the "anti-imperialism" of fools. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, March 30, 2021)
Why the Global Day of Protest against war with Iran fizzled. Two paths for the anti-war movement: the anti-war movement and its relation to the mass protests in Iran and Iraq; the CVO at the Global Day of Protest; how fake anti-imperialists supposedly "proved" that the Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 wasn't shot down by Iranian missiles; and the Open Letter to Code Pink that opposed hobnobbing with tyrants. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 28, 2020).
Oppose a war between the U.S. and Iran by showing solidarity with the people's uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa! Excerpts from, and support for, the statement of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists, which connects the anti-war struggle with the people's movements. Also a comment, which includes criticism of those who oppose various of the people's movements in the name of a false "anti-imperialism" (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 5, 2020).
No to the bloodbath in Idlib: Assad's offensive into Idlib and the continuing agony of the Syrian democrats; Syrians call upon the world to act urgently to stop the intensified bombing of civilians in Idlib. This includes reference to much of the left washing its hands of what's going on in Syria,or even supporting the Assad dicatatorship. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, December 24, 2019).
Mary Scully replies to leftists who denounce the movement in Hong Kong. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 10, 2019)
The American left and the Hong Kong protests, including replies to Norma Harrison and I.Z. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, July 23, 2019).
“Break the BRICS!” - say the BRICS-from-below activists at the Johannesburg Teach-in of July 2018: Activists denounce what the governments and bourgeoisies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are doing. ( Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 3, 2018)
Against selective solidarity: War Resisters League denounces Trump, Assad, Russia, Iran and selective solidarity that ignores calls from the Syrian people to stand with them against the repressive Assad regime and the imperialisms of Russia, Iran, and the International Coalition. (DSWV email list, May 14, 2017)
A Palestinian denounces the anti-imperialism of fools (DWV email list, October 28, 2014)
Against those who, in the name of anti-imperialism, vilify the democratic movement in Hong Kong (DWV email list, October 24, 2014)
THE WAR-LIKE NATURE OF IMPERIALISM IS UNCHANGED
after the collapse of the old colonial empires
(Issue #39, vol. 13, #1, January 24, 2007, 33K)
THE LENINIST THEORY OF IMPERIALISM
AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WORLD
(Issue #38, vol. 12, #2, July 27, 2006, 56K)
ABOUT THE AFGHAN WAR AND THE "WAR ON TERRORISM":
(Issue #28, vol. 8, #1, January 9, 2002)
IMPERIALISM in light of the Afghan war (77K)
THE US = #1 terrorist (25K)
AN OUTLINE OF LENINIST ANTI-IMPERIALISM
(Issue #29, vol. 8, #2, June 20, 2002. 50K)
ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE
-- part two of "the socialist debate on the Taliban"
(Issue #29, vol. 8, #2, June 20, 2002. 104K)
THE SOCIALIST DEBATE ON THE TALIBAN --
Trotskyism slips on the supposed anti-imperialism of the Taliban:
Part one (Issue #28, vol. 8, #1, January 9, 2002, 53K):
- Introduction by Joseph Green
- Sectarian propagandism by Bob Pitt (who, in the name of anti-imperialism, opposes denouncing both sides in the US-Taliban war )
- Neither Taliban nor imperialism by Ian Donovan
DEPENDENCY THEORY and the fight against imperialism: on Samir Amin and Andre Gunder Frank, part two
(Issue #15, vol. 3, #4, Oct. 25, 1997)
The twilight of dependency theory
Dependency theory and the fight against imperialism: on Samir Amin and Andre Gunder Frank (part one)
On pseudo-Marxist apologies for imperialism -- a review of Bill Warren's Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism
(Issue #14, vol. 3, #3, Aug. 10, 1997)
The "four worlds" theory and the indigenous struggle in Papua New Guinea (104K)
-- critiquing Hyndman's Ancestral Rain Forests and the Mountain of Gold
(Issue #9, Vol. 2, #4, Aug. 1, 1996)
Also see the articles under the section
AROUND THE WORLD: Capitalism, imperialism, and the class struggle
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