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Tag: Imperialism

Anti-Imperialism and the Politics of Language

Posted on December 7, 2021January 3, 2022 by CYM Committee

“Much like with the breaking of looms, the breaking of a language becomes a necessity so as to better exploit an imperialised nation, whether that be by complete linguistic extinction or by marginalising a previously dominant language. There are three primary ways in which language presents an obstacle to imperialism.”

Imperialism Is On Your Plate

Posted on September 10, 2021January 3, 2022 by CYM Committee

When the word imperialism is evoked, it seems strange to equivocate the term with a contemporary form of food production and this is what makes modern imperialism so effective. That is its ability to remain invisible or to go undetected. For the modern superpowers, and in the era of Pax Americana, this is largely how they operate, by using less direct methods in order to advance their nation’s particular geopolitical interests and to disguise these actions by using modern political or economic jargon such as “development”, “liberalisation” or “investment”.

America: A Land of Myths and Violence

Posted on March 30, 2021January 3, 2022 by CYM Committee

The history of the United States has long been supported by foundational myths, but behind these myths lie the dark reality of a state founded on racism and colonialism. Unless a complete overhaul of US society is accomplished, the land of fables is doomed. 

My Experience in Greece: A Case Study Against European Imperialism

Posted on January 8, 2021July 19, 2021 by CYM Committee

I began to witness the true extent of human suffering caused by the EUs crushing austerity. Men and women with crippled limbs prostrated out with open palms begging for money. Desperate men selling pens and stationery on the train in a bid to make ends meet in a country without work. Pampered British expats corralled in Syntagma square while people counted coins to buy loaves of bread a couple of streets away.

History is Marching: Part One

Posted on December 30, 2020July 19, 2021 by CYM Committee

Prolekult’s documentary, ‘History is Marching’, brilliantly explores the contemporary global situation, let us then explore what these issues are and what communists should be doing to build class-consciousness today.

The Front Line in the Battle for Class Unity in Northern Ireland

Posted on September 1, 2019 by CYM Committee

Housing has often been the arena in which class consciousness and militant action has been instilled in the hearts and minds of the Irish youth. This struggle is ever present in the North. Segregation of housing in urban centres of Derry and Belfast remains an obstacle to social cohesion and the unity of class action…

Those in Britain Supporting Ireland’s 32 County Socialist Republic

Posted on December 3, 2018December 2, 2018 by CYM Committee

Below is an excerpt from the speech given by a CYM delegate at the Youth Communist League’s 49th Congress in Croyden, London, 2018. Go raibh maith agaibh, mo chomrádaí. A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Brexit, and let it! Think tanks in a frenzy, bourgeoisie ordering Irish passports, Murdoch press defeated in…

Credit: HASSAN AMMAR/AP

The Imperialist Interest In Syria

Posted on May 8, 2018May 7, 2018 by CYM Committee

As tensions flare up between Moscow and Washington over the imperial intervention in Syria, we must first break down and analyse what has transpired so far regarding the Syria situation, we then must look at past occurrences of western intervention in the Middle East and begin to understand the underlying pattern of imperialism within these…

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