From the Facebook event: Join us for a powerful event as Women of Diverse Origins presents the “Global Women’s Resistance and Solidarity Teach-in: Palestine and the Anti-Imperialist Movement” as part of our International Women’s Day programming! DATE: Saturday, March 9th, 2024 TIME: 2:00 pm VENUE: Université de Montréal; Amphitheatre B-0325,
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Greenwash, Lithium & Eco-Fascism
Proved: Greenwash Is Ecoterrorism, Eco-Fascism – and High-Tech, Neo-Feudal “Green” Imperialism Indigenous cultures in the “lithium triangle” of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia are being robbed, subjugated, poisoned and plundered, to make Teslas and cell phones. Corporate-state violence is the continuing norm, in response. Welcome to “Green” Imperialism. Cell phones, tablets,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: BLOWBACK – And Collapse
JFK, MLK, The CIA – And The Collapse Of The West Yes, the evidence is clear: the CIA killed JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X. They are the goons of the corporate-state oligarchy. What did you think they do? Defend freedom and democracy? Were you born yesterday? (Read, Killing Hope,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Anti-Imperialism is for Everyone [Gabriel Kuhn]
Intro A recent book on the Revolutionary Cells of Germany, a network of militant left-wing radicals active in the 1980s and 90s, includes a curious exchange. An interviewer asks three former RC members about anti-imperialism, insisting that it was a “Leninist concept”. Eventually, one of the former RC members
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours [ThreeWayFight]
[This was originally posted on the Three Way Fight blog on January 8, 2023. The Editor’s Note is from Three Way Fight] Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours (guest post) by Linda Mann Editors’ note: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its eleventh month, and the war has no end
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen’s Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]
Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System, Torkil Lauesen, Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2021, 268pp. Reviewed by Adam Grey. [Originally published on RevolutionaryCommunist.org, 1 Dec 2022.] This important book by the Danish anti-imperialist activist Torkil Lauesen charts the history of Sweden ‘from 16th-century colonialism to the present day’ (p7).
Continue readingKersplebedeb: ‘Imperialism runs deep’: Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives [Ebb Magazine]
Robert Biel is the author of Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement (Kersplebedeb, 2015). This interview was originally posted by Ebb Magazine on December 19, 2021. In this interview, Robert Biel recounts his experiences of the British Maoist movement in the 1980s, the positive lessons that can be drawn from it,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Pingkian: Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-Imperialist Education, Vol.6 No. 1 (September 2021) – Now available on LeftWingBooks.net!
This journal will be available to ship in early November pingkian noun \pi?-k?-?n\ * flint * nom de plume of revolutionary Emilio Jacinto * metaphor for struggle From the Philippines, PINGKIAN (pi?-k?-?n), Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education, is published by the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND)
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Transsexuals Against Empire: Trans Women And The Fracturing Of Whiteness
Kersplebedeb received this article by Valerie, who explained that “it was written in the context of a local collective attempting to organize trans women specifically to struggle for our liberation as part of the broader struggle against capitalism-imperialism and settler colonialism in the so-called USA.” We are happy to publish
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation [AnneBonnyPirate.org]
The US Embassy in Kabul being evacuated. [This article was originally posted to the authors’ website, AnneBonnyPirate.org, on August 17, 2021] Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen on Social Democracy & Imperialism [Manifestering Podcast]
Torkil Lauesen—long-time anti-imperialist, former bankrobber, and author of The Principal Contradiction and The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance (both of which are on sale this month at LeftWingBooks.net!)—was on the Manifestering podcast recently to talk about his new book, Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW BOOK by Torkil Lauesen—Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System
“In general, the Scandinavian countries did not have the necessary military power and administrative capacity to establish and operate their own colonies. They had to ride the wave of the great colonial powers in order to enjoy the benefits offered by imperialism. There was no difference, however, between the Scandinavian countries
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen: New Year status 2021
[Torkil Lauesen is a former member of the so-called Blekingegade Group, a communist cell of anti-imperialist bankrobbers, and the author of The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance (2018) and The Principal Contradiction (2020). This post is mirrored from anti-imperialist.net.] New Year status 2021 In last year’s status, I
Continue readingKersplebedeb: “Decisively breaking with both worker elite mythology and male leftism”: An Interview with Bromma
Bromma is the author of Exodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization, The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”, and a contributor to Full Body Scan: Imperialism Today and Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right. More of his writings on kersplebedeb.com are available here.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Prospects for Anti-Capitalism in a Divided World, by Yuriy Dergunov
available from leftwingbooks.net Review of the book: Lauesen T. (2018) The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance, Montreal: Kersplebedeb. Torkil Lauesen’s book The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance is written from a perspective that can be described as Third Worldist Marxism. For its author, such views are
Continue readingKersplebedeb: David Gilbert Interviewed by TREYF
For those of you who don’t know, Treyf is one of the best podcasts out there — “A debatably Jewish podcast. Recorded at CKUT in Montreal (on occupied Kanien’kehá:ka territory), in the shadow of the cross of secularism, Sam Bick and David Zinman reflect on the political discussions that are
Continue readingKersplebedeb: New Year’s Status 2019 (Torkil Lauesen)
We are entering a dramatic period in history. Capitalism is in decline. The collapse of the system will be characterized by intense and sometimes chaotic economic and political fluctuations. The next economic crisis might be triggered by Brexit, Italy’s economic crises, or a trade war between the US and China.
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen Answers Bromma, on The Global Perspective
available from leftwingbooks.net Dear Bromma Thanks for the review and comments. It is rewarding to receive reflective feedback on your work. I was hoping for this kind of discussion. The idea of my book is to present a holistic “stew” of history, political economy, politics, and strategy – “all from
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Reading Torkil Lauesen’s The Global Perspective (Bromma, 8/18)
Rocinha Favela in Brazil. The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as drastic, as disorienting a change as was the original european colonial conquest of the human race. Capitalism is again ripping apart and restructuring the world, and nothing will be the same.
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen’s “The Global Perspective” (reviewed by Gabriel Kuhn)
Released by PM Press in collaboration with Kersplebedeb in 2014, Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers recalls the exploits of the so-called Blekingegade Gang, a group of Marxist revolutionaries who, during the 1970s and ‘80s, robbed cash-in-transit trucks, warehouses, and post offices around Copenhagen in order to provide national liberation movements in the Third World with much-needed material support. Now one of the group’s former members, Torkil Lauesen, has written a book titled Det globale perspektiv, “The Global Perspective”, released by the Danish press Nemo in May 2016.
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