The Liberation Support Movement (LSM) was an anti-imperialist organization founded by Don Barnett and based in Canada and the United States from 1968 until 1982. The group's activities supported indigenous resistance movements in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa/Azania, East Timor, and more. They were in contact and collaboration with the Danish M-KA organization as well. Here, we give an audio-presentation of LSM’s “Principles of Anti-Imperialist Work”, where they lay out the theory and praxis that guided their organization.

After a genocide committed by colonial Germany from 1904-1908 against the Herero and Nama peoples, and occupation by Apartheid South Africa from 1915 to 1990, Namibia remains deeply scarred by the colonial legacy, particularly on the question of land. In 1990, the white settler minority which made up less than 0.5 percent of the population owned almost all commercial land in Namibia. In 2018, 28 years after independence from the Apartheid regime, land inequality remained high, with white settlers owning 70 percent of agricultural land and Namibians only 16 percent.

The Landless Peoples' Movement of Namibia, founded in 2017, seeks to address this inequality with radical land redistribution and rights for the landless, as well as reparations for Germany's genocide. We interviewed Henny Seibeb to learn more about their efforts to fight for reparations and land now!

Learn more about LPM here: https://www.lpmparty.org

What does it mean to commit your life to struggle for anti-imperialism? How does it affect you in a political group fighting together in solidarity? What are the benefits and limitations of an undercover strategy?

We discuss the connections of NATO and South African Apartheid, from anti-communism and the Cape Sea Route to Le Cercle propaganda and more.

Livestream hosted 12/18/22 on Mapuche Struggle in Chile by Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) and repression by Chilean state.

We read aloud Lenin's "On the Question of Dialectics" from the 1915 war diaries, first published in 1925 in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 5-6, as part of the “conspectus” on Heraclitus and Aristotle.

We read aloud Che Guevara's 1954 essay "The American Working Class: Friend or Foe?", originally published in Casa de las Américas magazine, Jan-Feb 1988: biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar

Thanks to Red Sails for translating this essay: https://redsails.org/amiga-o-enemiga/#fn:inline1

Here, we read Lenin's essential text "Imperialism and the Split in Socialism", where Lenin enunciates a conception of opportunism in the labor movement, chauvinism, the labor aristocracy, parasitism, and imperialism, and how they all divide socialism between anti-imperialists and social-imperialists.

Here is the published text on Marxists Internet Archive: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm

On March 23rd, Akinyele Umoja (New African Peoples Organization, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement) and Obi Egbuna Jr. (External Relations Officer for the Zimbabwe-Cuba Friendship Association) presented speeches at Cornell University on the liberation struggle for New Afrikans and the global connections of this struggle to that of Zimbabwe, Palestine, Cuba, and much more.

We interview Christian Høgsbjerg (author of "C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain") on the Revolutionary life of James, an activist and theorist, renowned author, and foremost advocate for Pan-African revolution. James's numerous texts range from the legendary (Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary) to the overlooked (Notes on Dialectics, A History of Pan-African Revolt), so we didn't get to cover everything here, but hope this is a useful introduction to James.

Check out Christian's work: https://christianhogsbjerg.com