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” ...

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 ...

Imperialism certainly remains a vital concept. Vladimir Lenin defined it in 1916 as the synthesis of banking and industrial capital into finance capital, and that remains essentially correct. Lenin ...

At the most general level, I define imperialism as a form of global capitalism centred on continued extraction and transfers of value from poorer (or periphery) countries to rich (or core) countries, ...

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war as a product of economic rivalries spilling over into political and military conflicts has long been dismissed as out of date, even by some people on the left ...

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 ...

Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre are authors of Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to ...