Posts tagged: us-imperialism

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  “We decided that we would burn our draft cards”: Interview with Mike Davis

  Marking the 57th anniversary of the 1965 April revolution in the Dominican Republic and the subsequent US military invasion, historian Amaury Rodriguez speaks to Mike Davis about the left-wing mobilizations in solidarity with the Dominican people and the legacy and lessons for anti-imperialist activists today. 

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  'So, Was It Worth It?' - An extract from Tariq Ali's 'The Forty Year War in Afghanistan'

  Shortly after the US invasion of Afghanistan, Tariq Ali exchanged a series of letters with Mike O'Brien, the UK Minister of Trade. The correspondence is a fascinating window into the imperial fantasies of the New Labour government in the early days of that doomed adventure.