This four-session course is designed to equip participants with foundational tools to understand and confront imperialism. Through a close study of V.I. Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, we will connect Lenin’s historical analysis to the contemporary political and economic realities and manifestations of U.S. imperialism in order to strengthen our anti-imperialist organizing today.

In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?

In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?

Manu Karuka's new book Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path