To describe the contemporary political reality, an examination of reappearance of imperialism is a must. Broadly, imperialism of the west has passed through three stages after the “Enlightenment”:

A) The 18th and 19th centuries, in which the European countries colonised Asia and Africa.

B) The period following the World War II up to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This period is characterised by the presence of a bipolar power sharing arrangement ...

Generally people associate imperialism with expansionist designs of a powerful Empire annexing adjacent or far-off territories, subjugating their inhabitants and creating political hegemony. This is for securing for itself an increasingly dominant position to control various resources as part of its long-term strategy to further its economic and geo-political interests. During the recent past, destruction brought about to the local environment has caused immense loss in the form of global w...

Imperialism is the longest surviving political institution in human history. It survived vicissitudes of time and turmoils despite its detestable characteristics of greed and grabbing, cruelty and exploitation. It has acquired new incarnations to present a sophisticated and more acceptable face. It has adapted to changing circumstances, but has never failed to show its paws and claws, to clutch and grab what belonged to others whenever there was an opportunity for that.

In fact...

“Power Corrupts – And – Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.”

The axiom of Lord Acton is extremely pertinent in the context of the United States. The United States of America – the silent spectator in international affairs till the beginning of the 20th century – has now evolved into a self-proclaimed ‘Moral Police’ of the world. Needless to add, the masses worldwide are fed up with this moral (read immoral) policing. Its mask of De...

In a development of far-reaching significance for the global anti-imperialist movement, the International Anti-Imperialist and People’s Solidarity Co-ordinating Committee (IAPSCC) was established at Kolkata on November 29, 2007. The committee has the eminent American jurist and veteran anti-imperialist campaigner Ramsay Clark as its President, and Manik Mukherjee of India as its Secretary. Clark is a former Attorney General of the US and President of the New York-based International A...

From the late 19th century, the United States has pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism to extend its political and economic influence around the globe. It was the most unlikely turn that a colony took after its cherished desire of establishing a society of equals on the basis of justice and equal opportunity. In essence, the so-called globalisation slogan, as Zbigniew Brzezinsky put it, was “in its essence meant global interdependence.” But by the time Brzezinski’s...

The west, since the dawn of the modern era, has achieved tremendous success in producing knowledge, particularly scientific and technological. It has used this knowledge to provide better facilities and amenities for its masses to lead a materially comfortable life in this world. In this attempt it has also developed adequate and sophisticated ways and means of producing goods, including military equipment and weapons as well as generating income. It has undoubtedly achieved affluence but t...

Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitised, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “...

Both Imperialism or Capitalism and Communism or Socialism are two sides of a counterfeit coin. Their parentage or source is one and the same. Their fundamentals or basics are the same, although their methodologies rather modus operandi differ. Apparently, they appear to be diagonally opposed to each other. But there is no intrinsic difference between the two. Both start from a wrong premise and end up at wrong conclusions. In the process, their first casualty is man, in whose name both the ...

Economic fundamentalism, as an ideology, has not only been embraced by the big business, it has also worked its way up­wards. The governments of certain countries, predominantly the same countries which were the cradles of economic fundamentalism, have specialised the art of furthering their economic interests through all possible means. Since the ancient times, mili­tary power has been the chief, and perhaps, the only factor in the claim to supremacy in the world. This continued ti...

Imperialists continue to regard the Third World countries as storehouses of raw materials, spheres for capital investment, marketing outlets and sources of cheap labour-power and fabulous super-profits. The imperialist powers have maintained scientific, technical and production potential in the capitalist world. They keep the industrialised capitalist countries at one pole and most of the developing countries, with their low level of productive forces, at the other. The industrial productio...

The opposition of Left front to Indo US nuclear deal is guided by many factors. One of them is the growing subservience of India to the designs of US in the world. US has been trying to sound softer to India for the last several years. It is also clear that its policymakers want to ensure that India tilts to US over a period of time. The keenness which they are showing in having India sign the nuclear deal makes it clear that the US aims to benefit a lot from this deal. Apart from other thi...