Category: imperialism
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Imperialist Wars: Vietnam.
Imperialism. The Vietnam War was not fought for democracy, nor was it waged to protect the Vietnamese people. It was a war driven by numbers—statistics of bodies, bombs, and bullets—all in service of a U.S. ruling class desperate to crush a socialist movement that threatened their global dominance. In the brilliant, but harrowing, book by…
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Two Decades and $90 Billion US Dollars Later
Dissecting the Afghan Militaries Total Collapse. Repost from MintPressNews In February, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) published an extensive investigation into the spectacular collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces’ (ANDSF), which the U.S. spent two decades and $90 billion building. In common with previous SIGAR reports, it offers a remarkably uncompromising, no-punches-pulled…
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Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?
Reposted from CPGB-ML Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists. It is always ironic – in the sense of blatant gaslighting – when the imperialists, and our governments, accuse their victims It is always ironic – in the sense of blatant gaslighting – when the imperialists, and our governments, accuse…
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Who is behind the TUC motion asking British workers to support war crimes?
The pro-imperialist ‘Ukraine Solidarity Campaign’ organised a demonstration in London in April 2022 at which known secret service assets like Paul Mason called on the government to ‘Arm, arm, arm Ukraine’. The organisation relies heavily on US-sponsored ‘labour activists’ and ‘socialists’ in Ukraine (a country where all real working-class resistance was long ago outlawed). These…
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