Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective
A group of scholars committed to challenging US-led imperialism and supporting liberation movements of the Global Majority through critical knowledge production and international solidarity.
Principles of Unity
We, the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC), are scholars, educators, and knowledge workers engaged in a battle of ideas to support the forces of liberation and justice around the world. During a historical moment of widespread confusion over the nature of imperialism, we face an international counterrevolution waged by the forces of imperialism. Through collaboration and cooperation, our collective engages in mutual knowledge production that illuminates, clarifies, and critiques the historical and contemporary realities of imperialist power and revolutionary struggles.
Our central focus is US-led imperialism, which emerges from the capitalist world system. Capitalism has been an imperialist system since its inception over five hundred years ago. This system extracts capital and resources from the colonized and racialized peoples and nations of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific—the Global Majority-–leading to the underdevelopment of the majority of the planet. Imperialist subordination is an incessantly violent historical process built upon the ruins of colonialism, trans-Atlantic slavery, unequal exchange, militarism, humanitarianism, financialization, neoliberalism, and white supremacy.
See full statement from AISC: https://www.anti-imperialists.com/points-of-unity/
Contributors
Malek Abi Saab
Malek is a historian whose scholarship and teaching deals with the social and political transformation of the Middle East and women in Islamic societies, exploring new conceptual tools and comparative frameworks for discussing gender, labor and the nation-state in the Middle East.
Alexander Aviña
Alexander is a historian of Mexico and an associate professor of Latin American History.
Layla Brown
Layla is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Charisse is an Associate Professor of African American Studies.
Orisanmi Burton
Orisanmi is a scholar of Black radical politics and state repression.
Nick Estes
Nick is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an award-winning journalist and scholar and co-host of The Red Nation Podcast.