Global South Liberation

This cluster examines the current US-Israeli war on Iran through an anti-imperialist lens, highlighting how many in the Global South denounce the conflict as a colonial-style assault. Several pieces debate how to oppose Western aggression without politically backing Iran’s own repressive military regime, stressing the interests of the Iranian working class and the need to confront a de facto military junta. Alongside these political arguments, articles document the growing use of AI-generated images and other misinformation to manufacture consent and confuse public understanding of the war. Together, the posts show how imperial power, domestic authoritarianism, and digital propaganda intersect to shape both the battlefield and global opinion.

This cluster interrogates how AI-driven capitalism intensifies existing structures of exploitation, from war economies to precarious digital labor. One piece channels Naomi Klein’s critique of ‘disaster capitalism’ into the era of automated warfare and extraction, framing death and conflict as profitable datafied commodities. Another challenges Anthropic’s AI jobs study for ignoring workers in the Global South, where invisible labor underpins AI systems. A longer discussion on digital colonialism explores how Southern countries can resist becoming mere data mines and testing grounds, and instead build sovereign, just technological futures.

This cluster brings together posts spotlighting how colonialism and imperial power relations persist today, from Beijing’s rule in East Turkistan and influence operations in Europe to historical atrocities like Britain’s role in the 1943 Bengal famine. It also highlights ongoing settler violence in the West Bank condemned by the OIC and regional warfare between Pakistan and Afghanistan unfolding under U.S. backing. Across these cases, Marxist, feminist, LGBTQIA+, and South Korean anti-imperialist activists—and even critiques of tech-billionaire rhetoric—frame colonialism as a global, structural system that continues to demand resistance and solidarity.

This cluster tracks how BRICS nations are coordinating to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar through local-currency trade, alternative payment systems, and proposals for a commodity- and currency-backed digital clearing unit reminiscent of Keynes’s bancor. Discussions of the petroyuan and energy trade in non-dollar terms highlight rising pressure on the Bretton Woods–era, dollar-centric system. China’s upcoming 2027 BRICS chairmanship and calls for India–China and broader Global South unity suggest a strategic push to institutionalize a new, more multipolar financial architecture with BRICS at its core.

This cluster tracks how African states are renegotiating power, security, and development amid deep global uncertainty. From Sahelian coups and insurgencies to Sudan’s escalating conflict and the securitization of projects like LAPSSET, the posts highlight the limits of great‑power protection and the rise of more autonomous, security-heavy strategies. In parallel, ideas like Pan‑Africanism, AfCFTA leadership by Nigeria, industrial policy debates (manufacturing, mineral beneficiation), and reflections on COVID‑19 responses show a push for economic sovereignty and continental integration. Together, they depict an Africa where political shocks, security dilemmas, and development experimentation are tightly intertwined and increasingly driven by African choices rather than external blueprints.

These reposts explore Venezuela’s crisis after a reported U.S. attack on Caracas, with mass casualties and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, presented as part of a new imperial strategy. The authors frame the government’s apparent humiliation and tactical retreats as potentially temporary, arguing the Bolivarian revolution is adapting rather than collapsing. Together, they depict Venezuela as besieged by U.S. “predators” yet still capable of reorganizing its resistance, raising broader questions about sovereignty, intervention, and anti‑imperialist struggle in Latin America.