Algeria provides a stark example of settler colonialism and violent resistance. Whereas the United States was born of a struggle between the settlers themselves for self determination and the right to development based on the continued extermination of the indigenes and the exploitation of slavery, Algeria was born of the struggle of the indigenes against the settlers.
It is not possible to comprehend contemporary US politics without understanding the peculiarities which differentiate the USA from European imperialism. The most important of these is its settler colonial origins.
Colonial rule often destroyed pre-existing social and economic systems, replacing them with production oriented toward the European market.
The exploitation of enslaved Africans in the Americas and of colonised populations across Asia and Africa underpinned the industrial growth of Europe.
China has accomplished something no other Global South country has ever previously achieved—that is, to become the technological leader across a wide range of industries, Such achievements, and the independent national development it sustains, are a strategic goal every Global South country would aspire to as a culmination of its own development process.
• The history of global capitalism is inseparable from the histories of slavery, colonialism, and settler colonialism.
• The Black liberation struggle — that is the struggle against the oppression of the people of non-European origin by the people of European origin — plus the struggle for liberation and Self-Determination, and the class struggle are clearly linked.
What we are seeing today in microcosm is the rising up of the black struggle – objectively an anti-imperialist struggle – and a significant number of the American people coming over to its side.
The article reproduced here (first published in 2007) draws out the intimate connection between class struggle and the struggle for black rights.
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