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/

Blog - The Pen is my Machete

“The Pen is My Machete” is a monthly, online publication of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. Liberation and justice are our core values. We understand US-led imperialism as the primary contradiction that works against the realization of liberation and justice for all.

Just as the root causes of our exploitation, oppression and dispossession are connected through the imperialist world system, so too are our struggles to emancipate ourselves from this system. “Nobody’s free till everyone is free,” as Fannie Lou Hamer remarked in 1971.

We engage in collaborative knowledge production that exposes how US-led imperialism works and operates in both the past and present. We are inspired by those popular struggles that challenge this violent system of domination while offering revolutionary alternatives. The Machete Blog is committed to platforming voices that both nurture comprehensive and critical analysis of our current time of monsters, and invite us to imagine new revolutionary horizons.