About Us
As Anti-Imperialist Network, we aim to build a global hub for anti-imperialist activists to connect, learn, share tactics and ideas, and offer concrete support for liberation movements and groups in the Global South. Our primary practical focuses are:
- To produce and distribute high-quality media that analyzes how imperialism operates, documents its crimes, and amplifies the struggles of the Global South.
- To conduct solidarity work with liberation movements and groups in the Global South, whether it is through providing material resources and aid or sharing skills and knowledge.
Points of Unity
- The principal contradiction of our world is that between the exploited nations and the exploiters in the imperial core – imperialism.
- The underdevelopment of the exploited nations was and is the dialectical necessity for the development of the exploiters.
- Capitalism has always been a global, racialized system – primitive accumulation could not have occurred without genocide, enslavement, and ecocide.
- Imperialism creates a stratification that rewards some proletarians as settlers and/or citizens, thus forming a labor aristocracy.
- The labor aristocracy’s wages and incorporation into the nation-state allow them to benefit from the exploitation of the low-waged labor of the exploited nations, intensifying imperialism in the form of Unequal Exchange.
- Unequal Exchange precludes the universality and internationalism of the proletariat, and hinders the solidarity of the “workers of the world”.
- Imperialism manifests itself in a variety of other ways today, in sanctions regimes, indebtedness, military intervention, nuclear aggression, extractivism, and other forms.
- Capitalism cannot be defeated globally while imperialism persists – without anti-imperialism, efforts at socialism in the exploiting nations can only produce social imperialism.
- The obligation of revolutionaries today is to challenge imperialism by any means necessary. In the exploiting nations, that primarily means acting in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements in the exploited nations.
- Solidarity cannot be simply symbolic; it must be material; it must be something we can hold in our hands.