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The Cadre Journal is partnering with the Arghiri Emmanuel Association, a foundation dedicated to the legacy of theorist and activist Arghiri Emmanuel, to bring you the Unequal Exchange podcast, a platform dedicated to anti-imperialist theory and activism. We will preserve our archive of interviews with actors across the Global South with a new database of discussions on Unequal Exchange, dependency theory, and analysis of imperialism. To follow us on twitter: @ArghiriEmmanuel, @thecadrejourn ...
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In this 2nd episode of our series on Unequal Exchange in the Congo, we discuss the efforts to continue mining after independence and the death of Lumumba, the regime of Mobutu, and the resistance of Pierre Mulele. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support…
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Here, we discuss the theories of David Ricardo and Bertil Ohlin, two classical (bourgeois) economists who popularized conceptions of comparative advantage related to the international division of labor to justify imperialism. We discuss how Unequal Exchange theory rebukes these notions and reveals the imperialism of "comparative advantage" and trad…
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Part 2 of our interview with Torkil on UE in the 21st Century, the intellectual and political history of the theories of Unequal Exchange and Dependency Theory, and how these apply within the context of neoliberal globalization. Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRuOOXRLCYThanks for watching! To support our work, considering becoming a …
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In this interview, we explore the question of the semi-periphery vis-a-vis the semiconductor industry, which is one of the backbones of the global value chain and has been likened to gold or oil. We discuss what relevance this industry has to the global economy, and what it reveals about the possibilities of semi-peripheral advancement in a situati…
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After the coup d'etat in Niger on 26 July 2023, members of the Diaspora Association of Republic of Niger Nationals (DARN-UK) protested in London against continued French occupation and neocolonialism. To learn more about the coup and Niger's history of anti-imperialist struggle, we interviewed Abdoul Mossi, leader of DARN-UK. Support DARN's solidar…
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Torkil joins us to discuss the intellectual and political history of the theories of Unequal Exchange and Dependency Theory, and how these apply within the context of neoliberal globalization. Thanks for watching! To support our work, considering becoming a Patron:patreon.com/ArghiriEmmanuelAssociationFollow us on Twitter: @ArghiriEmmanuelOr see ou…
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In this first episode of a new series, we break down Arghiri Emmanuel's "Unequal Exchange" chapter by chapter, beginning first with the Introduction. We discuss how Emmanuel critiques David Ricardo's comparative advantage theory and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, and extends Marx's analysis of value to an international level.Thanks for watching! To s…
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In the 1960s, the independence of the Congo seemed to herald the delinking of one of Africa's most powerful economies and nations from Western imperialism. Patrice Lumumba presented a vision of a unified, Pan-African Congo whose resources "would actually benefit its children". This posed an immense challenge to the rule of Belgian high finance, the…
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We read a selection from Torkil Lauesen's "The Global Perspective", Appendix 1: "Introduction to the Marxist Theory of Value", where Lauesen connects Arghiri Emmanuel's Unequal Exchange analysis of International Value to critical Marxist concepts.Support the Arghiri Emmanuel Association's work here: patreon.com/ArghiriEmmanuelAssociationFollow the …
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We interview Thumeka Magwangqana and Gabisile Khanyile of the Sinethemba Marikana Women's Collective on the legacy of the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, the connections between patriarchy and imperialism, and more. The Sinethemba Women's Collective is calling for support to expand its community work in Marikana. Contribute here: https://www.jus…
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The Arghiri Emmanuel Association was founded to preserve the legacy of Arghiri Emmanuel, a Greek political economist and author of "Unequal Exchange", "Profit and Crises", "Appropriate or Underdeveloped Technology?" and many other classic texts related to the economic and political liberation of the Third World. We are seeking to archive this mater…
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Though Thomas Sankara was removed and assassinated in a comprador counter-revolution backed by the West 36 years ago, his legacy is still a source of revolutionary inspiration for the Burkinabé people and their ongoing revolutionary struggle against imperialism. Today, after a period of great unrest, a military government led by Captain Ibrahim Tra…
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A new conflict in Sudan has erupted between two capitalist factions led by warlord/gold profiteer Hemedti and ruling clique leader al-Burhan. The Sudanese Communist Party is resisting both capitalist sides and fighting for the safety of the masses, and for the continuation of the 2019 revolution. We interviewed SCP spokesperson Fathi el-Fadl for mo…
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We read aloud Samir Amin's "Letter of intent for an inaugural meeting of the International of Workers and Peoples", where he issued a call for a 5th International to combat imperialism. Originally published by Pambazuka News --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support…
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Why is the U.S. backing a coup against Peruvian president Pedro Castillo? Why is the unelected golpista Dina Boluarte keeping power and using force against protestors? What's at stake with Perú's contracts with foreign businesses up for renewal? To answer these questions, we talked with Didier Ortiz (@DiddyOrtiz), a comrade from Troika Kollectiv (@…
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We read Lenin's text "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism", published in 1913 in Prosveshcheniye No. 3, dedicated to the Thirtieth Anniversary of Marx’s death. Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support…
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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 wit…
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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 al…
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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?These are some of the questions that Torkil Lauesen and other members of the Manifest-Communist Working Group (Manifest–Kommunistisk Arbe…
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We discuss the connections of NATO and South African Apartheid, from anti-communism and the Cape Sea Route to Le Cercle propaganda and more. Read more on the subject here:https://www.africaportal.org/publications/nato-and-south-africa/https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/british-anti-apartheid-movementThanks to @PresterJohn for the subject recommen…
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Livestream hosted 12/18/22 on Mapuche Struggle in Chile by Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) and repression by Chilean state.https://thecadrejournal.org/essays-articles/archived-writings/enviar-acciones-urgentessend-urgent-actions --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support…
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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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support
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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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequale…
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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 …
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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, …
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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-…
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In 1979, Maurice Bishop and the New J.E.W.E.L. Movement (NJM) came to power, in the spirit of the Cuban and Haitian revolutions, against an authoritarian neocolonial puppet and promised to end illiteracy, poverty, and the colonial condition of Grenada as a site of former enslavement and ongoing extraction. 4 years later (and 40 years past from 2023…
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Here, we offer an audio reading of Arghiri Emmanuel's Preface to "Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism", by the Manifest-Communist Working Group of Denmark (Manifest–Kommunistisk Arbejdsgruppe) from 1986. Emmanuel discusses his perspective on the prospects of a proletarian revolution in the age of the labor aristocracy. To find a digital…
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Here's an audio version of the text, "What Should Communists In the Imperialist Countries Do?", written by the Manifest–Kommunistisk Arbejdsgruppe (Manifest Communist Working Group of Denmark), with the English translation published in 1986. To find a digital version of this text from "Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism", visit here: h…
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We talk with Nancy Lindisfarne and Johnathan O'Neale on their work in Afghanistan, the development of socialism, gender relations, American occupation, and the genocidal famine post-occupation. Check out their work here: https://annebonnypirate.organd the article on Afghanistan we discussed: https://annebonnypirate.org/2021/08/17/afghanistan-the-en…
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What is Proletarian Internationalism? And how do we implement it today? Anti-Imperialist struggle is not just a remnant of the past; it has to be conducted in the ongoing fight against the unequal division of the world by the imperialists. We discussed with Justin Yeary, the Treasurer of Friends of Swazi Freedom, on his recent solidarity mission to…
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We interviewed Jasmine Butler on their article "The Imperative of Political Education in a Miseducated Society". We talked about some of the main points in the article like the application of Paulo Freire's thoughts on pedagogy and also Butler's own experiences in education and organizing. Jasmine Butler works with a variety of organizations with a…
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We discuss Lucia Pradella's article "Marx and the Global South", which touchs on many subjects but deals centrally with Marx's thoughts on Capital Accumulation in the Global South, as ascertained through his writings on the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Sepoy Rebellion, and more instances of (anti)colonialism in Asia and the Global South. …
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We interview Professor Gerald Horne on his work on the counterrevolution of 1776, as well as discuss the recent police murder of Tyre Nichols and how it fits into the culmination of the American white supremacist project. Check out Gerald Horne's "Freedom Now" broadcast: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/freedom-now/ Donate to the BLM Memphis Bail Fund i…
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We interview Fernando Ximenes of Komité Esperansa, a Timor Leste anti-imperialist youth group, on the rise of neocolonialism in Timor Leste after independence and the continuing liberation struggle against Indonesian, Australian, and Western imperialism. We discuss Fernando's excellent Monthly Review article "Twenty-two years of austerity in Timor-…
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We interview Jamie Tyberg, a researcher, activist, and author of articles like "Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing" for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, on how Degrowth works within an anti-Imperialist paradigm. Check out Jamie's work here: https://rosalux.nyc/author/jamie-tyberg/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/une…
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We interview Aboubacar Naby Sylla of the Mouvement Sekou Toureist of Guineé about the life and legacy of Ahmed Sékou Touré, and his contributions to Pan-Africanism, Touréism, and Guinean Liberty. Song Credits: "Non" by Didier Awadi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support…
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While the West attacks China, it ignores the fact that Taiwan is colonizing Swaziland by backing the authoritarian neocolonial absolute monarchy of King Mswati III. This is an analysis of the situation with testimonials from Swazi people struggling against this colonialism. @friendsofswazifreedom3374 https://friendsofswazi.com/ https://twitter.com/…
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We discuss the radical life of Claudia Jones, her life and theories as a Black female Communist, her repression by the FBI, and much more, with the author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Professor Carole Boyce Davies. Check out Prof CBD's work here: https://caroleboycedavies.com/left-of-karl-marx/Other C…
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On what would have been his 98th Birthday, had he not been assassinated, Amílcar Cabral is introduced as a radical anti-colonial theorist and National Liberation Marxist revolutionary. We discuss his early life and education, his formation of the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), and his writings. Specifically, we…
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We discuss Taiwan's imperialism in Swaziland through weapons shipments and super-exploitation of Swazi labor, as well as the need for international solidarity with the Communist Party of Swaziland, with Cde. Pius. Check out CPS: @CPSwaziland https://cp-swa.orgCheck out Pius: https://twitter.com/PiusmyRinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcaste…
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We discuss recent events in the Swazi Revolution with Cde. Pius, such as the targeting of students by the regime. Check out CPS: @CPSwaziland https://cp-swa.org Check out Pius: https://twitter.com/PiusmyRinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support
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We interview Fadiah Nadwa Fikri on her review of Chin Peng/Ong Boon Hua's autobiography "My Side of History" detailing the Malayan Communist Uprising and the British violence against it. Check out the article here: https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/unveiling-the-violence-of-the-british-imperialist-war-in-malaya-chin-peng-my-side-of-history/ --- Su…
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We interview David Martinez, who is in the process of making a film about Immanuel Wallerstein, about Wallerstein's life and thought, and some of the events in his life that made way for World Systems Analysis. PLEASE contribute to the fundraiser if you can so we can see this film get made! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-eagle-has-crash-lan…
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We interview Andy Higginbottom on his article "Enslaved African labour in the Americas: from primitive accumulation to manufacture with racial violence" and the issue of Eurocentric Marxism, the Brenner Thesis, and theorizing racial capitalism. Check out the article here: https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/43047/ --- Support this podcast: htt…
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We discuss Prof. Gabriel Rockhill's article "The CIA and the Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism" published here: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ Thanks so much to Prof. Rockhill for his great work, check him out here: https://gabrielrockhill.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/…
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We conclude Rodney's Decolonial Marxism, focused on Chapters 15-16. This was an excellent reading group on Decolonial Marxism. Thanks to our comrades from the Walter Rodney Revolutionary Peoples Library for attending and helping present, and thanks to Verso Books and the Walter Rodney Foundation for releasing this great text. --- Support this podca…
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