BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Recent soaring numbers of youths killed in London, United Kingdom, have many scratching their heads in disbelief. People in the United States and elsewhere have...
Tag: Imperialism
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ When most people discuss the history of conquest in Latin America and the Caribbean, two countries are usually brought up: Spain and the United States....
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ If Marvel’s recent “Black Panther” film centered Black people in starring roles in a historic move (a film that is not immune to criticisms), then...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA If Westerners were to ask themselves how the capitalist system has led to the displacement millions of people around the world, then all other arguments...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA & RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ “Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism (Second Edition)” by Dr. Zak Cope has...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA I was recently reading a best-selling zombie thriller and realized that rather than providing me with entertainment, it badly recreated real stories my parents have...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA If you’re of Latin American and Caribbean descent, it’s probable that your parents have scolded you since childhood for putting your elbows on the table...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Recently, U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his racist chauvinism when referring to immigrants who come from “shithole” countries. The countries Trump’s comments referred to included El...
BY VAL REYNOSO For decades, Dominican migrants have been forced to flee their homeland in pursuit of better living conditions. Responding to the effects of imperialist plunder, they almost...
BY ANTICONQUISTA Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese anti-colonial leader, once urged us to “remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show...