1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war – not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
   
2. The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
   A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2008
   The West's entire approach to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another, trumpeting the virtues of majority rule when it's convenient to do so and threatening to impose sanctions and penalties on majorities when that's convenient. For the Americans, Kosovo is nothing more than the hinterland of a giant military base.
3. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
4. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
5. The Age of Imperialism
   The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1966   Published: 1968
   
6. Another World is Possible
   Globalization and anti-capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
   A polemic call-to-arms for all progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
7. Bad Marxism
   Capitalism and Cultural Studies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
8. The Bomb won't go away on its own
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1982
   Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
9. Break Their Haughty Power 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
   
10. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
11. Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
12. Centre for Research on Globalization
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An independent research and media group of writers, scholars and activists. Publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes.
13. China Mao or never
    New Internationalist September 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the communist government China and the people's dream of free speech.
14. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
15. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
16. “Civilising” the “Blacks”; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1936
    Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
    
17. Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    
18. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
19. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
20. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1983
    
21. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
22. Decolonization and Empire
    Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
23. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A clear and prophetic examination which reveals a not-too-distant future in which the American empire's hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American supremacy.
24. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
25. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
26. Ecological Imperialism
    The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900
    Resource Type: Book
    
27. Ecology as Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
28. The Economics of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Brown discusses different theories of the connection between capitalism and imperialism. His own position is derived from Rosa Luxemburg, holding that imperialism is a process of assimilation and transformation of economies into the sphere of competitive capital accumulation.
29. Europe's Green Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
30. Facing Reality 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
    
31. The Faltering Economy
    The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
32. Fictitious Capital for Beginners 
    Imperialism, “Anti-Imperialism”, and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society — barbarism, in her words, or the “mutual destruction of the contending classes” as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 — by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
33. Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
34. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
35. 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
36. From Yalta To VietNam
    American Foreign Policy In The Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
37. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
38. How America Gets Away With Murder
    Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
39. Humanitarian Imperialism
    The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky considers "humanitarian intervention" and "the responsibility to protect" as new norms in international affairs by examining the institutional structures which produced the policies responsible for such developments.
40. Humanitarian Imperialism
    Using Human Rights to Sell War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world’s leading economic and military powers — above all, the United States — in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks.
41. Imperialism
    From the Colonial Age to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    This volume contains a series of essays aimed at illuminating the theory, history, and roots of imperialism
42. Imperialism and World Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Bukharin’s 1929 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.
43. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
44. Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1917
    
45. Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1914
    The true cause, the trigger, the author of this war, is therefore not any particular State, but all the States that pursue an imperialist policy and seek to expand their territories: Germany, England, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Japan; each one separately and all of them together are its cause. All the chatter of the bourgeois and socialist parties and their newspapers, according to which we are witnessing a war of national defense in which we are obliged to participate because we were attacked, all this chatter is nothing but a trick to dissimulate each country's culpability under a beautiful façade. To say that Germany, Prussia or England is the cause of the war is as stupid and as false as to assert that the cracks which open up on a volcano are the cause of its eruption.
    For many years, all the European States have been arming for this conflict. All of them want to satisfy their own rapacity and greed. All of them are equally guilty.
46. Imperialism Without Colonies
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays explain how imperialism works, why it generates ever greater inequality, repression, and militarism, and the essential role it plays in the development of U.S. capitalism.
47. In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
48. In the Shadow of Empire
    Canada for Americans
    Resource Type: Book
    Joseph K. Roberts brings into focus every major feature of Canada’s politics, from the distinctiveness of a society that does not stigmatize government action to the struggles of indigenous peoples and the quest of French-speaking Quebec for autonomy.
    
49. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
50. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
    
51. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
52. It's Imperialism, Stupid
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Chomksy claims that when Bush proclaimed the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction as the premise for invading Iraq, imperialism was, in fact, the genuine motivation.
53. The Junius Pamphlet 
    The Crisis of Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916
    The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for and wholly believed in the ability of organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
    
54. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
55. The Kidnapping Of Haiti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation.
56. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
57. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
    
58. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
59. Marcus Gee's Confusion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    The United States didn't 'fair to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
60. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
61. Multiculturalism or World Culture? 
    On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2000
    Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
62. Naked Imperialism
    The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Examines the important transformation in U.S. global policy and ideology, showing the political and economic roots of the new militarism and its consequences both in the global and local context.
63. The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, “the right of nations to self-determination,” is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
64. A New British Provocation in Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946
    British imperialism, for years on end, has attempted to direct the ire of the Arab masses against the Jewish population of the country. For this purpose the policy of Zionist expansion has been supported, a policy which results in the eviction of Arab tenants from the land, drives Arab workers from jobs, and strengthens the Zionist fortress which is determined to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. Imperialist support for Zionism is calculated to achieve two results: One, to establish a power which directly supports it, which will constitute a faithful ally against the Arabs in every instance of an anti-imperialist uprising of the Arabs of the Middle East; the other, to have Zionism serve as a means of diverting the ire of the oppressed Arab masses away from imperialism onto a side issue – clashes with Jews.
    
65. New World Order
    A postwar analysis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
66. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
67. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
68. Open Veins of Latin America 
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (25th Anniversary Edition)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
69. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
70. The Pillage of the Third World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1968
    This book investigates whether, despite the termination of old colonial ties, the metropolitan areas of the world do not continue to exploit the underdeveloped countries of the world by virtue of long-established economic relationships.
71. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
    
72. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
73. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
74. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
75. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
76. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
77. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
    
78. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
    The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Luxemburg’s discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in “all its hideous nakedness.” This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
    
79. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
80. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
    
81. The Socialist Register 1971
    A survey of movements and ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
    
82. War in the Gulf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
83. War in the Gulf
    An Environmental Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
84. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
85. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian “interference” in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
    
86. Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.
87. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
88. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
89. You either believe in freedom or you don't
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.

Experts on Imperialism in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. Marxists Internet Archive