Library
Links and descriptions of books, documentaries, articles, etc. This "library" is really just a list. For now, it is not very organized.
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Books
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
1972 book by Guyanese historian and activist Walter Rodney.
"it is necessary to reemphasize that development and underdevelopment are not only comparative terms, but that they also have a dialectical relationship one to the other: that is to say, the two help produce each other by interaction. Western Europe and Africa had a relationship which insured the transfer of wealth from Africa to Europe. [...] Africa helped to develop Western Europe in the same proportion as Western Europe helped to underdevelop Africa"
Longer excerpt
"Because of the superficiality of many of the approaches to "underdevelopment," and because of resulting misconceptions, it is necessary to reemphasize that development and underdevelopment are not only comparative terms, but that they also have a dialectical relationship one to the other: that is to say, the two help produce each other by interaction. Western Europe and Africa had a relationship which insured the transfer of wealth from Africa to Europe. The transfer was possible only after trade became truly international; and that takes one back to the late fifteenth century when Africa and Europe were drawn into common relations for the first time—along with Asia and the Americas. The developed and underdeveloped parts of the present capitalist section of the world have been in continuous contact for four and a half centuries. The contention here is that over that period, Africa helped to develop Western Europe in the same proportion as Western Europe helped to underdevelop Africa."
Tags: Africa, colonialism, development, underdevelopment, history, Walter Rodney, dialectical materialism, historical materialism
Zine: 제국의 제재 | Sanctions of Empire
A zine produced by Nodutdol.
"From North Korea to Cuba to Iran to Venezuela, sanctions kill. This zine explores the geopolitical and human impact of sanctions. We argue that sanctions are tools of political violence, and discuss the crippling effects of sanctions, through essays, poetry, personal stories, and more."
Tags: sanctions, imperialism, DPRK
Articles
Redefining the World
"Think about it. In these last moments of your campus life, don’t you find it a little strange that the United States, your country, has military bases, more than 700 of them, scattered across every continent and that your school offers not a single course on the way we garrison this planet? Don’t you find it just a tad odd that this seemingly salient fact of our national existence hasn’t seemed worth teaching, debating, or discussing?"
Tom Engelhardt. "Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, ’09." TomDispatch. June 2, 2009.
Tags: military, imperialism, bases
Zimbabwe Under Siege
An article which provides historical background and context about Zimbabwe, which was largely maligned in the Western press and came under attack from international financial institutions when land was finally seized from white settlers after Zimbabwe had spent years trying to work within unfavorable, failing arrangements with the US and UK[1] who were trying to maintain a grip on Zimbabwe's governance and economy in the wake of Zimbabwe's successful revolution against white minority rule.
"IMF policy was only one component in a broad-based Western effort to discipline Zimbabwe and force it to return to a neoliberal economic model in which the interests of Western capital would have primacy over the needs of its people. On December 21, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law S. 494, the “Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001.” The law instructed American officials in international financial institutions to “oppose and vote against any extension by the respective institution of any loan, credit, or guarantee to the government of Zimbabwe” and to vote against any reduction or cancellation of “indebtedness owed by the government of Zimbabwe.” The law also authorized President Bush to fund “an independent and free press and electronic media in Zimbabwe,” referring to media opposed to the government of Zimbabwe. Six million dollars were granted to aid “democracy and governance programs,” a euphemism for groups seeking to topple the government. The bill was sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who had been a supporter of Ian Smith’s apartheid Rhodesia."
Gregory Elich. "Zimbabwe Under Siege." gregoryelich.org. August 26, 2002.
1. "British and Rhodesian negotiators saddled Zimbabwe with a constitution that barred the compulsory acquisition of land [...] There was an agreement on sharing the purchase cost [of land] between Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, and the United States [...] The United Kingdom provided only £44 million in support, a sum that paled in comparison to the untold billions it had expropriated from the land and labor during the colonial era. For its part, the United States reneged on its pledge and contributed nothing." The Dynamics of Rural Capitalist Accumulation in Post-Land Reform Zimbabwe, George T. Mudimu and Gregory Elich.
Tags: land back, land redistribution, settler-colonialism
Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation
"Dossier no. 37 is an invitation to a dialogue, a conversation about the entangled tradition of Marxism and national liberation – a tradition that emerges out of the October Revolution and that deepens its roots in the anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an introduction to a wide-ranging conversation that includes many different revolutionary movements, mostly rooted in the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we are interested in reviving a serious discussion about this tradition."
"Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation." Dossier no. 37, The Tricontinental. February 8, 2021.
Tags: dependency theory, dialectical materialism, anti-colonialism, imperialism
Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution
"Western Marxism is basically a kind of Marxism which has, as a key characteristic, never exercised political power. [...] This western Marxism considers itself to be superior to eastern Marxism because it hasn’t tarnished Marxism by transforming it into an ideology of the State like, for example, Soviet Marxism, and it has never been authoritarian, totalitarian or violent. This Marxism preserves the purity of theory to the detriment of the fact that it has never produced a revolution anywhere on the face of the Earth"
Jones Manoel. "Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution." Black Agenda Report. June 10, 2020.
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Videos
Stealing a Nation (2004)
John Pilger documentary about the joint U.S.-British effort which forcibly and secretively expelled the Chagossian population from Diego Garcia and neighboring islands to make way for a U.S. military base.
Tags: USINDOPACOM, imperialism
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994)
A John Pilger documentary about the invasion of East Timor.
Tags: Timor-Leste, oil, Indonesia
Palestine is Still the Issue (2002)
A John Pilger documentary about the occupation of Palestine.
Tags: Nakba, Zionism, Israel, Gaza, settler-colonialism
Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983)
A documentary about the revolution in Grenada.
Tags: Caribbean, Maurice Bishop, New Jewel Movement
Audio
Blowback podcast
A podcast which covers different historical events each season. Description from their site:
"After covering the Iraq War, the Cuban Revolution, the Korean War, and the Afghanistan conflict – Season 5 of Blowback will feature the story of Cambodia, Kissinger and the Khmer Rouge."
Tags: history, war
KEEP: Stories from North Korea - The East is a Podcast
Release Date: 03/07/2022
A panel discussion hosted by Nodutdol with past participants of their Korea Education and Exposure Program (KEEP). They speak on their experiences traveling to DPRK.
According to their description:
"We hope to provide an alternative narrative about the North Korean people, promote peace, and share work on the campaign to lift the travel ban to North Korea."
Tags: north Korea, DPRK