Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza

A History

Penguin Press, 2025

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Publisher’s Description:

“Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” – Naomi Klein

“This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.” – Hisham Matar

“A triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict.” – Anand Giridharadas

Named a Best Book of the Month by TIME • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Guardian, Bustle, Foreign Policy, and Literary Hub

From one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza that reframes our understanding of the ongoing conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global response

The postwar global order was in many ways shaped in response to the Holocaust. That event became the benchmark for atrocity, and, in the Western imagination, the paradigmatic genocide. Its memory orients so much of our thinking, and crucially, forms the basic justification for Israel’s right first to establish itself and then to defend itself. But in many parts of the world, ravaged by other conflicts and experiences of mass slaughter, the Holocaust’s singularity is not always taken for granted, even when its hideous atrocity is. Outside of the West, Pankaj Mishra argues, the dominant story of the twentieth century is that of decolonization.

The World After Gaza takes the current war, and the polarized reaction to it, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the Global North’s triumphant account of victory over totalitarianism and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the Global South’s hopeful vision of racial equality and freedom from colonial rule. At a moment when the world’s balance of power is shifting, and the Global North no longer commands ultimate authority, it is critically important that we understand how and why the two halves of the world are failing to talk to each other.

As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful, and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis – about whether some lives matter more than others, how identity is constructed, and what the role of the nation-state ought to be. The World After Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present, and future.

Reviews:

“Stimulating and brilliantly researched . . . no incendiary polemic, but rather a sober and extensively documented treatise on the discursive history that has given rise to the current situation.” 

The Irish Times

“Mishra’s book is a triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict. It gives voice and extends sympathy and probes the innermost fears and aspirations of both parties in the conflict – and shows how fine the line is between humanity and its opposite.”

Anand Giridharadas, The.Ink

“The World After Gaza is a book of magnitude and grace. Mishra’s skills as a novelist enable him to provide vivid portraits of men and women struggling (and sometimes failing) to rail against the injustices of their eras. In doing so, we find not only a lament for what has gone wrong, a warning against the complicity that convenience can give rise to and an elegy for the world order that we are at risk of losing, but also a guide as to what we can be, each of us, individually.”

Markaz Review

“Mishra, who has employed his crystalline prose in novels and nonfiction alike, methodically unpacks the ‘extensive moral breakdown’ that preceded what he describes as ‘the blithe slaughter of innocents in Gaza.’ . . . At heart, this is an exhaustively sourced plea for historical literacy that opens up what Mishra calls ‘a broader vista of human fraternity and solidarity’ and recognizes that across the globe, people victimized by ‘historical mass crimes of genocide, slavery and racist imperialism’ wonder why ‘their own holocausts . . . have not been much regarded in history.’ . . . A clear-eyed look at the Holocaust as justification for Israel’s wars.”

Kirkus

“In this urgent book, Mishra grapples with the inexplicable spectacle of stone-faced Western elites ignoring, and indeed justifying, the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Mishra reflects on the supposedly universal consensus that emerged from the Holocaust, as well as his own early sympathies for Israel, as he expounds on the terrible toll of this passivity in the face of atrocity.”

Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

“Guided by a determination to find an exit from the loop of endlessly repeating atrocities, Mishra leads readers on a search for meaning in modern history’s most depraved episodes. This is a rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” 

Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger

“This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers. His outrage is hard to ignore. But at the center of this urgent book is a humane inquiry into what suffering can make us do, and he leaves us with the troubling question of what world will we find after Gaza.”

Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return and My Friends

“Mishra’s latest undertakes the difficult but important task of reconciling the contradictory stories of the Global North and the Global South. While the former has squandered the last of its alleged moral authority in support of neoliberal empire the latter urgently seeks liberation from the deadly and ongoing aftershocks of colonialism. Essential reading.” 

Literary Hub

“Pankaj Mishra is our globally leading public intellectual, and his coruscating and scintillating meditation on the ethical purchase of Holocaust memory as the Gaza war goes on is one of the indispensable documents of civilization in a barbaric time. With his alert conscience, impeccable learning, and meditative writing, Mishra chronicles how the very attempt to register the crimes of the past in a world of continuing hierarchy can transform into an alibi for the disasters of the present.”

Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself and Humane

“A brilliant book, as thoughtful, scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original, The World After Gaza does what great writing is meant to do: to remind us of what it is to be human, to help us feel another’s pain, to reach out and make connections across the trenches of race, color, and religion.”

William Dalrymple, author of The Golden Road

“Both a timeless and timely book, reading The World After Gaza feels like engaging in an ongoing conversation about the meaning of the Holocaust and colonialism with a good attentive friend.”

Eyal Weizman, author of Forensic Architecture

“An astute, humane, and necessary intervention, opening a path to the altered consciousness which has to be a consequence of Israel’s war on Gaza.”

Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo and The Map of Love

“With this utterly essential book, Pankaj Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world, bringing proportion and insight to a subject that is routinely lacking in both . . . The devastation of Gaza cannot be understood as a retaliatory act, but as a brutal extension of Israel’s renewed commitment to clearing lands that are not their own. Mishra’s book shows great understanding of the historical prejudice and violence that Jews themselves have suffered, and offers new clarity about how that trauma might have formed the current Israeli rhetoric . . . I can only say that fair-minded people and readers everywhere have a friend in this book, which sees without blinkers and speaks without fear. If books have a role today in the elucidation of justice, then I believe The World After Gaza will prove to be as crucial to our own times as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time was to his.”

Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road

“Pankaj Mishra remembers the future. The World After Gaza, with its elegant outrage and eloquent ache, will be the reference for those who judge our times tomorrow. Thanks to Mishra’s all-too-human work, the next generation will know we were not all in vain.”

Ece Temelkuran

“Mishra brings his humanism, moral clarity and deep, cosmopolitan erudition to the question of how survivors of a genocide built a society that is committing a genocide broadcast live on our smartphones. A towering intellectual achievement.”

Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham)

“A book of passion, fury, and clarity. Mishra is one of the most important voices of our generation.” 

Peter Frankopan

“We all owe Pankaj Mishra a debt for crafting eloquent, urgent, and undeniable words from the horrors we are struggling to witness.” 

Afua Hirsch

About the Author:

Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, as well as the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, among others.

Matt Kennard: The Racket

A Rogue Reporter vs the American Empire

Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 (2015)

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Publisher’s Description:

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home. Owing to the very nature of the Financial Times, however, Kennard was not able to publish these findings as part of his day job. Enter The Racket, now in a fully updated second edition. This tell-all book, reported from all corners of the world, will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works – and in whose interests. Kennard reports not only from across the United States, but from the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. In doing so he provides startlingly clear and concrete evidence of unchecked, high-level, interrelated systems of exploitation all over the world. At the same time, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, and Gael García Bernal, Kennard offers a glimpse of a developing resistance, which needs to win. Now more relevant than ever, this 2nd edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

Reviews:

“In this important book, Kennard explores the direct impacts of militarized, globalized American capitalism on some of the most battered parts of our world. With devastating precision and a formidable sense of urgency, he reports on corporate shock doctors in Haiti, imperialist drug warriors in Honduras, pillaging coal and mining giants in southern Africa and Appalachia – and so much more. Most importantly, he never loses sight of the the growing numbers of resistors holding on to their creativity and self-determination in the face of these forces.”

Naomi Klein

“Matt Kennard’s perceptive direct reporting and analysis of policy aim to expose ‘the racket’ that dominates much of global society and to ‘blow their cover.’ His in-depth studies, ranging from Haiti to Palestine to Bolivia to Honduras to the destitute in New York City and far more bring home in vivid and illuminating detail the reality of life and struggles of much of the world’s population, their defeats and victories, their suffering and vitality and hope.”

Noam Chomsky

“Timely and readable … Kennard ranges widely in his attempt to show the scope and depth of the Racket. From the ‘disaster capitalism’ imposed on an earthquake-traumatized Haiti to the undermining of democracy in Bolivia, Kennard lays bare the mechanics of the scam … This book is a valuable tool for anyone wishing to engage in the worldwide struggle for justice.”

New Internationalist

“Matt Kennard left his secure job with the Financial Times on a mission to expose the world financial system as a gigantic racket operated by the United States of America for the benefit of a tiny number of extremely rich individuals. … He has travelled the world, and has material to work on. There is no arguing with his Chomskyan analysis of the grotesque consequences of US financial imperialism in Latin America, or Washington’s refusal to confront Israel over its maltreatment of the Palestinian population.”

Peter Oborne, New Statesman

“The Racket is a powerful tool for self-education: it offers essential information about the insatiable and sordid nature of global, elitist, exploitive, profit-blinded governments and institutions that have, together, perfected the task of making billions of people miserable, poor and fatally unhappy. It also offers testimony from activists and artists who are not giving in, giving up, or lying down.”

Alice Walker

“I congratulate Matt Kennard for this brutally honest work. We need Kennard in this world (jungle) and other writers like him who have the courage and creative mind to expose the lies and deception of the Free Market, Free Elections, Free Choices, Democracy, Peace, Cooperation, Friendship, Partnership, Equality, Justice and other beautiful words hiding savage brutality, violence, terrorism, colonialism, and imperialism.”

Nawal El Saadawi

“If I was editor of an old-fashioned newspaper, the kind that published and be damned, I’d hire Matt Kennard. The Racket is a front page story.”

John Pilger

“Matt Kennard exposes the failure of US neoliberalism and a major reason why China’s star is rising while American foreign policy is imploding into a black hole.”

John Perkins

“Kennard is no conspiracy theorist. Whatever you think about his conclusions, this is a first-class piece of radical investigative journalism.”

The Journalist

“[The Racket] depicts the U.S. system of economic control and exploitation as a violent, highly oppressive nexus of government power and private wealth. Kennard’s global investigation of the effects on the ground of what is known variously as the Washington Consensus, neoliberalism, or, in Naomi Klein’s phrase, ‘disaster capitalism’-including severe poverty, loss of political autonomy, and war and terror as conditions of life-follows in the footsteps of previous critics of U.S. imperialism like Klein and Noam Chomsky. Kennard includes unusually candid interviews with members of the World Bank and other financial institutions. These and other sections from a journalistic perspective help elucidate … such tragedies as Haiti’s post-earthquake ‘reconstruction’ or aggressive mining operations in Africa and South America.”

Publishers Weekly

“Contains … vivid on-the-ground reporting from Haiti, Palestine and Egypt. [Kennard] reports on the depredations of mining companies and the baleful effects of the ‘war on drugs’ in Honduras, Bolivia and elsewhere, with many eye opening discussions of the minutiae of trade negotiations … as well as the privatised prison industry and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. To this extent, the book is a little brother to Naomi Klein’s brilliant The Shock Doctrine, which showed in 2007 how civil wars and natural disasters in poor countries are routinely exploited by US and global business interests pushing for radical programmes of privatisation from which they intend to profit. (The same thing happened, Kennard notes, after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.)”

The Guardian

“Kennard’s new book, The Racket, is an ambitious and sweeping account of how US-backed superpowers keep the poor poor and the rich rich. It’s a kind of anti-capitalist manifesto, only without all the hipster-Marxist jargon that makes those kinds of books so inaccessible to the people who want to read them. In The Racket, Kennard speaks to everyone from earthquake victims in Haiti, to the leaders of big oil companies, to celebrities in a quest to find out how global, multilateral institutions like the World Bank and IMF create a world only conducive to the needs of private capital. He patiently explains to his readers how the US government controls banks and big businesses, enforcing their ideology on the rest of the world with the help of a brutal military and the sinister tactics employed by their intelligence agencies. Essentially, The Racket is the best noir thriller about shady mobsters you’ve ever read, and all the more terrifying because it’s a book about US history.”

VICE

“Matt Kennard has announced his presence on the scene as the next generation’s John Pilger … Kennard deftly manages the balancing act between making judgments (in favour of people over profit and the progress of society) and of getting out of the way while he lets his interview subjects tell their own stories. The book spans the globe, and is strongest in its sections on Latin America – especially on Bolivia and the US-backed terror war against the leftist government there. But Kennard does a brilliant job of tying the strands together and joining the dots between disparate struggles against corporate greed and imperial power around the world.”

Asa Winstanley, Middle East Monitor

“Kennard decided to leave his comfortable job at the Financial Times and start to do some real journalism instead. The Racket, his second book, is very much the result of this transformation and it is nothing sort of marvellous. Angry, scornful and yet optimistic about the potential for change, it’s a socially engaged and often autobiographical exploration packed with solid research and interviews with those on the class-war front line … A polemical, first-hand expose of the corporate elites who rule and ruin the world for the rest of us, ex-Financial Times journalist Matt Kennard’s The Racket is investigative journalism at its best … Covering the Turkish repression of the Kurds, the continuing US-led plunder of South America and the downtrodden of the US itself, the book makes a good case for Kennard being a true heir to John Pilger and the older generation of muckrakers.”

Morning Star

“Following Amy Goodman’s dictum that ‘the role of journalism is to go where the silences are,’ Kennard fires off incendiary dispatches from the parts of the world rarely covered by the Western mainstream media. … [T]he book focusses on Turkey’s US-backed ethnic cleaning of the Kurds and US attempts to undermine progressive change in Haiti, Honduras and Bolivia. Like the best work of John Pilger, George Monbiot and Naomi Klein, The Racket is investigative, passionate journalism with a purpose – to defend the powerless against rapacious power. A hugely important tour de force, it will inform and inspire resistance movements for years to come.”

Ian Sinclair, Red Pepper

“Investigative journalist Matt Kennard’s The Racket is an exposé of the murky collusions between global high-finance and the militarised US state in the post-war era. Kennard traces the expansion of US corporate power across the globe, using case studies from Palestine, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and more to illustrate the pernicious and far-reaching impact of the US ‘imperial mindset.’ A former Financial Times journalist, Kennard identifies the US as the primary actor in enforcing ‘the racket’, or the system whereby capitalist elites are buttressed through the violent suppression of labour unions, social movements and political groups in selected US satellite states. Nowhere is this more evident than in US intervention within ‘America’s backyard’ of Latin America. Kennard explores in eminently readable prose the self-evident brutality and futility of the War on Drugs in Honduras, links between US multinationals and the Colombian paramilitaries and anti-labour union governments, and the dynamic resistance presented by anti-imperialist Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in Bolivia.”

Olivia Arigho Stiles, Alborada

“This is radical journalism of the highest order. A very useful book.”

Socialist Review

“Matt Kennard threw away a cushy career with an establishment newspaper just to let you in on a secret: you don’t get the story, you get the cover-up. From Egypt to South Africa to Washington to London, Kennard lets us in on the details of buried truth.”

Greg Palast

“A brilliant atlas of what Kennard calls ‘heavy history’ – the hurricane-like path of global destruction wrought by neoliberalism and wars against the poor.”

Mike Davis

“A crucial exposé of the powerful, of injustice, and of the war against the poor. It should inspire all of us to fight back.”

Owen Jones

“This firecracker of a book, written by a former insider journalist who realised the true, exploitative agenda of corporate media, unleashes a gonzo journey across the world of US empire. From Palestine to Bolivia and America to South Africa, reporter Matt Kennard provides a roadmap of deformed economics, state violence and inspiring resistance. The Racket‘s key message is that another, more just world is possible when political and media courtiers of power recognise their own complicity in Washington’s destructive policies in the name of ‘development,’ ‘humanitarian intervention,’ and ‘liberation.’ Read this book, be startled and then take action.”

Antony Loewenstein

“The Racket is tough, angry, relentlessly researched and riveting, in the grand Chomskyan tradition but with the added value of the journalist’s mobility and on the spot coverage. Kennard’s range is wide, both geographically and topically, but with a single target-the depredations of the US superpower’s corporate and political elites on their own home turf and abroad that the lap-dog media rarely touch.”

Susan George

“Matt Kennard reveals the criminal and ruthless dynamics of global imperialism. His analysis is richly researched, keenly illustrative, and consistently on target. May this book get the wide readership it deserves.”

Michael Parenti

“Drawing on his wide-ranging in-depth investigations of exploitation and resistance from Haiti to Tunisia, Matt Kennard provides a valuable portrait of the structure and dynamics of the world’s biggest criminal enterprise. Uncovering the linkages among corporate power, free trade agreements, the International Monetary Fund, and military hegemony, he offers a clinical analysis of how the American racket operates but also inevitably triggers resistance. A masterpiece of engaged journalism.”

Walden Bello

“The Racket is a well-researched political tour through weaponised corruption and tyranny, destitution, robbery, mass murder and concluding in the censoring of the arts in the United States and Britain. Matt Kennard puts no deodorant on the reptiles waste in the imperial barnyard.”

Gavin McFayden

“This new edition of Matt Kennard’s explosive book should be obligatory reading for anyone interested or involved in politics. I cannot praise it highly enough … The Racket is a vital source of information about what is happening on a global scale to entrap us all in the empire’s web of deceit and megalomania, if only we are prepared to open our eyes.”

The Morning Star

“This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding the levers used by the US to customise the world to fit its purpose, from instigating coups in countries like Bolivia, to the painful, wholesale restructuring of Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake … This is an urgent, revelatory work – a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand the times we live in.”

Middle East Eye

About the Author:

Matt Kennard is co-founder, and chief investigator, at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, New York, and London. He is the author of several acclaimed books including Irregular Army (2012), and co-author (with Claire Provost) of Silent Coup (2023).

JOB:s Comment:

The Epstein World Order.

Om vänster- och högerdissidenters enhet

Ordförande Haz om USA och därmed till stor del om hela väst, givet hur imperiets verklighet ser ut idag:

“All anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, and anti-hegemony voices in America must, at this critical moment, unite on a practical level.

Theoretical criticism is necessary, but practical unity is imperative.

Learn from the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance: They formed a popular front made up of factions who used to kill each other in the past.

They managed to put their differences aside and unite practically in the face of a common enemy.

If they can forgive each other despite killing each other in the past, people in the West can forgive petty personal internet grudges for a greater cause.

It shows incredible immaturity to hold meaningless personal and petty grudges in the face of a potential world war. Theoretical differences are important to accentuate – but practical solidarity is necessary.

I have talked sh*t about PSL and Deprogram crew in the past. I have profound theoretical and personal differences with them.

Yet in the midst of a uniparty crackdown on all dissident and anti-war voices, in the midst of Democrat Zionist liberals attempting to weaponize the state against more principled leftists who show solidarity with anti-imperialist resistance, it would be immature and indefensible of me to regard them as primary enemies.

I have seen how leftists have become increasingly disenchanted with the Democrat hegemony, how they have become more radicalized and principled in asserting independence from mainstream liberal voices like Ethan Klein and others.

Whether anyone likes it or not, we are all in the same boat now, in the woods and outside the mainstream.

How and when you got here is of secondary importance. I have been here for many years; yet I find it unproductive to bitterly resent those who have arrived here too late.

As MAGA undergoes division, so too do leftists. Everyone is waking up to a common truth and position – outside the system and outside the hegemony.

I commend all those leftists who have succeeded in arriving at a principled stance without any encouragement or support from the Democrat hegemony at all – who face institutional and legal persecution for it.

The genuine selfless solidarity, partisanship, commitment to social justice, and historical tradition of the Left must be united with the organic, spontaneous disillusion of MAGA masses and other disaffected (black, Mexican, indigenous, etc.) working class communities.

This is what ‘globalize the Intifada’ means in USA. The uniparty hegemony represents the forces of occupation and hegemony, represented by the Ethan Kleins, AOCs, Ben Shapiros, Lindsey Grahams, etc.

As predicted, a new political re-alignment is taking shape.

The fundamental division within the Left: Those who take a principled stance in opposition to US imperial hegemony and align themselves with forces of global resistance – and the Zionist opportunists (Liberals, Trotskyites, ‘leftcoms’, ‘anarchists’ and ‘democratic socialists’).

The fundamental division within MAGA is between anti-war voices and shills of the Republican Zionist hegemony.

The dissidents from both ranks, despite having different origins are destined to unite – for the establishment shills of both ranks are already uniting.”

En svag punkt dock: Trotskister, leftcoms och anarkister är ju inte generellt sionister, och inte heller är alla liberaler och demokratiska socialister det. Hur många som inte varit det tidigare finner det opportunt att bli det just nu?

Det kan framstå som puristisk-fanatiskt att från Haz’ utgångspunkter inte praktiskt förena sig med personer i dessa kategorier när de har rätt, eller i det de har rätt, även om kvarstående teoretiska skillnader förblir icke-negligerbara och nödvändiga att även i dessa fall betona. Samma förhållningssätt borde väl såtillvida intas till dem som till de kategorier Haz nämner som börande förenas med.

Det partiella rätthavandet, alla uttryck hos dem som kan betecknas som “anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, and anti-hegemony”, “dissident and anti-war”, borde kunna erkännas samtidigt som vederbörandes objektiva yttersta funktion som kontraproduktivt stöd för atlantetablissemanget (Demokraterna, Labour, Socialdemokraterna eller i annan form) alltfort kritiseras. Divisionen inom vänstern är verklig och viktig, men den är mindre tydlig än inom högern.

Detta är ju f.ö. mitt eget förhållningssätt till Haz själv. Även hos honom måste rätthavandet extraheras från en helhet som också rymmer problematiska och oacceptabla inslag. Ja, det är givetvis det förhållningssätt som från mina utgångspunkter måste intas till alla marxister och även all annan vänster. Detta borde vara vägen för en konservativ socialism under rådande omständigheter. Haz och även innovationisten Maupin är i alla fall bättre än den som det synes alltmer puristiske Mckay, men från en ny, konservativ-socialistisk position är det möjligt att bli ännu mycket bättre än dem.

Sedan inställer sig förstås också, ifråga om sionismen, den öppna frågan om ett möjligt försvar av Israel – ett annat Israel – idag.

Caleb Maupin: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

Key Writings and Lectures

Independently published, 2026

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Publisher’s Description:

A major collection of writings and speeches from Caleb Maupin – America’s most controversial, influential, and outspoken anti-imperialist organizer in the 21st century.

Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism presents a sweeping analysis of the global struggle shaping our era: the conflict between Western financial order of globalism/imperialism and the rising new world, born in anti-colonial revolutions.

Combining almost two decades of political organizing, journalism, international activism, and ideological struggle, this comprehensive volume reveals why Caleb Maupin appears almost daily on international TV broadcasts and has so many devoted activists following his lead across the United States. These pages introduce readers to mind of a movement-builder, strategist, educator, and organizer dedicated to constructing a new political force capable of transforming the United States and bringing us closer to a peaceful and prosperous world.

This nearly 500-page collection includes speeches delivered to thousands of oil workers in Brazil, face-to-face exchanges with multiple heads of state, geopolitical lectures, interviews, and essays applying classical Marxist economic theory as well as his new spiritual and political perspective known as Innovationism.

Readers will encounter sharp analysis of:

– The war in Ukraine and NATO expansion

– The rise of China and the leadership of Xi Jinping

– Russia’s economic resurgence under Vladimir Putin

– The destruction of Libya and regime-change warfare

– The collapse of the Soviet Union

– Oil markets and the global capitalist crisis

– Artificial intelligence and the future of labor

– The Korean Peninsula and prospects for reunification

– Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary history, and Marxist theory

– The crisis of neoliberalism and the emerging multipolar world order

Throughout the volume, Maupin argues that the old “British empire system” of endless wars and economic decay is entering a profound crisis, while a new world based on sovereignty, development, and human creativity is struggling to emerge.

More than a collection of political essays, Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism offers readers an inside look at the ideas, strategy, and worldview behind one of the fastest-growing anti-imperialist movements in the United States today.

Perfect for readers interested in:

Marxism, anti-imperialism, geopolitics, socialism, Russia, China, NATO, political economy, revolutionary movements, multipolarity, world affairs, and the future of global politics.