In “Bases for an Empire” (Opinion, Jan. 18), Chalmers Johnson informs us that the “United States dominates the world through its military power.” If, as he asserts, “many Americans do not recognize” ...

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 ...

This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. Mainstream politics in Europe and North America is increasingly divided into two hostile camps: on one side are conservative ...

To understand why the world is the way it is now, there’s a question we have to ask: What is imperialism? The history of imperialism helps explain everything from contemporary foreign policy to why ...

Argentine Marxist economist Esteban Mercatante talks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the ongoing relevance of imperialism for understanding the world we live in. What value remains in the ...

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 ...

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 ...