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/