THE MARXIST approach to understanding war as a product of economic rivalries spilling over into political and military conflicts has long been dismissed as out of date, even by some people on the left ...

Tyrone Groh and James Lockhart do a fine job laying out the history and current state of the American empire debate, lamenting the imprecise language and conceptualization of the debate in many ...

William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Green ...

Ana Cristina Carvalhaes is a founding activist of Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) and a Fourth International executive bureau member. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS ...

A large part of Lenin's claim to being a groundbreaking theoretician of Marxism rests on his theory of "imperialism". It is often assumed by self-described "Marxists" to be inherently correct. This is ...

LENIN WROTE Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916 in the middle of the carnage of the First World War. The pamphlet was an intervention in the sharp political debate that had torn apart ...

Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran Filipino socialist activist and former vice-president of Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers). In the first part of ...

At some point, given the increasing desperation of the antiwar polemicists, the code word “imperialism” had to come up. And so it has. In what is to me a deeply clarifying alliance, the hard right and ...

After the recent abduction of Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, the most important question is how this will affect other countries like the Philippines. For geopolitical observers, the most ...