Posts tagged: anti-imperialism

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  Palestine speaks for everyone

  Against those who would separate good and bad Palestinians resisting occupation and onslaught, Jodi Dean writes in defence of the radical universal emancipation embodied in the Palestinian cause.
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  The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization by Mohamed Amer Meziane

  France imagines itself to be the cradle of secular republicanism from which modernity was launched in 1789. But as Mohammed Amer Meziane shows in his new book, The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, the Republic has been infused with colonial empire since Napoleon Bonaparte. Etienne Balibar argues that with this concept of "imperiality," Meziane has ruptured France's national myths.
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  European Empires from Conquest to Collapse

  Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill, introduces a new edition of Victor Kiernan’s trail-blazing history of imperial warfare.
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  “We decided that we would burn our draft cards”: Interview with Mike Davis

  Marking the 57th anniversary of the 1965 April revolution in the Dominican Republic and the subsequent US military invasion, historian Amaury Rodriguez speaks to Mike Davis about the left-wing mobilizations in solidarity with the Dominican people and the legacy and lessons for anti-imperialist activists today. 

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  On the Churchill Front in the Culture Wars

  Historian John Newsinger responds to Simon Heffer and Andrew Robert's review of Tariq Ali’s powerful new demolition of the Churchill myth, Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

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  Can the Imperial Logic of Documentary be Repaired?

  Zoë Druick asks if documentary films can escape their imperial past, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

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  Potential Prehistory

  Historian of science Lukas Rieppel considers the connections between geology, prehistory, and imperialism, as part of the "Unlearning Imperialism" Verso roundtable.

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  Towards a Radical Practice of History: When Can History Repair?

  Historian Vazira Zamindar asks if history has the disciplinary tools to practice repair, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

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  Unlearning Imperialism: A Verso Roundtable

  A Verso roundtable on Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's Potential History, discussing imperial knowledge, history, art, the possibility of repairing devastated worlds, and above all: what can a radical practice of history look like?

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  The Parti des Indigènes de la République - A political success and the conspiracy against it (2005 to 2020)

  Houria Bouteldja and Youssef Boussoumah, co-founders of the Parti des Indigènes de la République in France, detail the party's history, the French anti-racist and anti-imperialist movement, and their own experiences engaging in anti-racist politics over the last fifteen years.