From Colonialism to Imperialism

CHAPTER ONE

The word colony in European languages means place for settling in another country in order to tie it to the metropolitan country. And Colonialism means seizing new lands, colonialist expansion. Under capitalism, colonization was realized particularly in geographical discoveries and conquest of overseas lands in the...

published on 22 November 2012

European Imperialists and Militarist Ascendancy

it is clear that not only the United States but also other major Western imperialists are seeking to further spread and escalate the ongoing World War. Russia and China, on the other side, see where things are heading and are preparing accordingly. It is very clear that the only thing the imperialists, plunderers...

published on 17 August 2025

NATO Summit, Ukraine War, Imperialist Blocs

The Trump line, in fact, in line with the general line of American imperialism, is based primarily on the reduction of China’s position as a global economic power and preventing it from becoming a global political/military power. At this point, Trump is making tactical attempts to drive a wedge between Russia and...

published on 14 August 2025

The Lightness of Underestimating the Fascist Rise

In the struggle against fascism today, the primary danger lies not in labelling every far-right party or repressive regime as fascist but in fixating on secondary details and ignoring the fascist reality before our eyes (and the global fascist threat). In Turkey, we have endured the stark and painful consequences of...

published on 24 July 2025

“The International Far-Right” or the Global Co-operation of Fascism

It would not be correct to expect the current global fascist escalation process to be an exact copy of fascism between 1920-40, with all its symbols, institutions, rituals, and practices. Fascism develops by adapting to current conditions, resorting to different forms of dissimulation, wearing modern clothes,...

published on 26 June 2025

Israel’s Attack on Iran: A New Phase in the World War

The primary force resisting the Zionist expansionism and aggressive policies of the Israeli state must be Israeli workers themselves. As in Iran, the correct line of struggle for the proletariat here is to transform the war into a domestic class war and overthrow bourgeois rule. That Israeli workers, like working...

published on 24 June 2025

Is Globalization Coming to an End?

The world has been shaken for a quarter of a century by a deep system crisis and an accompanying imperialist struggle for sharing and hegemony. If the right-wing views that advocate eliminating globalization succeed in taking even a small step towards eliminating the global functioning of capitalism, the only...

published on 16 May 2025

May Day 2025 in Turkey: “No Liberation Alone - Either All Together or None of Us!”

In the struggle against the regime and the capitalist order, the decisive factor remains the working class entering the arena as an organised force. This constitutes the urgent task demanding concentrated efforts from all socialists, advanced workers, and militant trade unionists.

published on 3 May 2025

Trump’s Tariff Wars

What Trump (and American imperialism in general) wants is not to break up the world market, end free trade, eliminate globalization, etc., but to slow down, control, and extract significant concessions from China. It aims not to end globalization, but to reshape it in line with its own interests, to make its rivals...

published on 25 April 2025

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